Placenames

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-12-21 11:09am

What are some strange and/or funny placenames you've come across?

For example, there is apparently a Hooker County, Nebraska, and a Mexico, Missouri.

The things you learn when you have to make links to nearly every newspaper in the country.. >_>

~ver

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-12-21 11:22am

There is a wee village in Ireland called Muff. And before anyone asks they have a swim team with quite a few divers.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-12-21 11:27am

Lord Pounder wrote:There is a wee village in Ireland called Muff. And before anyone asks they have a swim team with quite a few divers.

-snickers-

Also, there's a Wahoo, Nebraska. Wahoo!

~ver

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-12-21 11:37am

mianus.... yes i stole that from jackass

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-12-21 11:38am

I've always found Best over in Reagan county amusing.

I don't think anyone lives there anymore. Kinda creepy, driving by that one dilapidated wooden shack when passing through the place. I should take a picture of it.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-12-21 11:48am

One placename that annoys the fuck out of me is an american town called "Auld Ayr" I happen to live in "Ayr" which dates back nearly a thousand years as a royal burgh, but these fucks call their town "auld ayr" and make my life hell trying to find fuck all on the web.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-12-21 11:53am

Neptune, New Jersey.

Oh, and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

~ver

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-12-21 11:54am

Nob End, and on my last trip to sunderland, i drove through Dalton.

On the back of some notes, it has "Dingley Dell versus all Muggleton".

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-12-21 12:36pm

Are they actualy choosing wierd names or are they writting dumb suggestion,then drawing the choice from a hat

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » 2003-12-21 12:38pm

Well lots of people think that Wagga Wagga is a strange name for a town. No I didn't not accidentally type it twice, that is its name.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-12-21 01:40pm

verilon wrote:Neptune, New Jersey.

Oh, and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

~ver

We have a big map of the USA next to the workbench area where Im temping. I saw Truth or Consequences New Mexico.

Don't forget there is an Intercourse, Pennslyvania I believe.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-12-21 02:40pm

Rye wrote:Nob End, and on my last trip to sunderland, i drove through Dalton.

On the back of some notes, it has "Dingley Dell versus all Muggleton".

Dingley Dell exists in the US.. I forget which state that was, though.

~ver

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-12-21 02:41pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:
verilon wrote:Neptune, New Jersey.

Oh, and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

~ver
We have a big map of the USA next to the workbench area where Im temping. I saw Truth or Consequences New Mexico.

Of course, it can't be much better or worse than Elephant Butte.

Or, considering the demographic, White City (next to Carlsbad Caverns).

~ver

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-12-21 02:52pm

Not really a place name but there's an Exit 69 - Big Beaver near where I live. Not suprisingly it's the most stolen road sign in America.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-12-21 02:53pm

There's a housing development around here called Rancho Sin Vacas.

Kind of funny and kind of stupid at the same time.

Rancho Sin Vacas

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2003-12-21 10:45pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:
Don't forget there is an Intercourse, Pennslyvania I believe.

Don't forget Blue Ball and Bird in Hand. Those two towns and Intercourse are all located in Lancaster County, PA.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2003-12-21 10:49pm

What Cheer, Iowa. I can't imagine what they must have been smoking...

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2003-12-21 11:10pm

Well, it's not so much a weird place name, but there's a tiny little village in Devon called Hannaford, which is weird because that's my last name and as far as I know, I'm the last in the line of the Hannafords....might be worth seeing if I have some sort of claim over the place. The idea of ruling a village makes me go crazy with the thought of power, well, atleast now I know how the Mods feel...

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-12-21 11:17pm

On the road up to Lake Tahoe there is a small town called Cisco. And no its not sponsered by the well know tech company.

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-12-21 11:54pm

My grandparents used to run the water district in Boring, Oregon.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-12-22 02:19am

Minnesota has towns called Moorhead, Climax, and Cummings.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-12-22 03:31am

Hicksville, NY.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-12-22 03:45am

Alex Moon wrote:My grandparents used to run the water district in Boring, Oregon.

We have a Boring, MD, as well as an Accident, MD. Fun!

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-12-22 03:51am

We've driven to Las Vegas a few times before. I forget whether it was Las Vegas or Mammoth Lake.

Either way, along the way there's an exit to a certain avenue. That avenue is called:

Zzyxz

Avenue Zzyxz. I kid you not.

Note: The exact spelling may be different, but that's basically it.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-12-22 07:31am

Okay, back home in fayetteville, There's highway 110, throughout lincoln county, there are many, many, unincorporated towns. as you move from north to south along 110, you come across three roadsigns in succession, of unincorporated towns that are:

Killen

Skinem

Edom

(Kill 'em, skin 'em and Eat 'em)

Only in Tennessee