Funny-named towns

[roadman65]

I don't think I missed it already, but I'm a fan of Walla Walla, Washington.  Of course, that's the home of the Acme Vacuum Cleaner Company and Ace Novelty Company, for whom Daffy Duck is a salesman.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x65404_foghorn-leghorn-daffy-duck-the-high_shortfilms#.US5LefLgKgs

That is probably where WZAZ  TV originated along with the 555 exchange numbers to start the 7 digit phone number, and maybe the swinging kitchen doors that is used in TV homes are mad there.

[Dr Frankenstein]

Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ and Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, QC should become sister cities.

[djsinco]

D'Lo, MS. Name coined by train engineers who created the contraction when commenting on that "Damned low spot" in the tracks.

[cjk374]

Funny towns in Lousisana:

Waterproof:  Located on US 65 south of Tallulah, right next to the Mississippi River levee.   
Yellow Bayou
Ajax
Plain Dealing
Latex
Frogmore
Jigger
Shongaloo
Taterville

[kphoger]

Funny towns in Lousisana:
Latex

Please, please tell me their school mascot is the Trojans.

[Big John]

Funny towns in Lousisana:
Latex

Please, please tell me their school mascot is the Trojans.

and in Texas,  named for LA and TEX, like Texarkana is named.  There was a Jefferson Forks school there

[1995hoo]

Jerry's Nose, Newfoundland, is on the Port-au-Port Peninsula. I think it recently consolidated with two other nearby towns, however.

[SP Cook]

Funny towns in Lousisana:
Latex

Please, please tell me their school mascot is the Trojans.

Trojans are actually made in Troy.  Troy, Alabama.  Both Troy State University and the local high school are the Trojans.

[Stephane Dumas]

Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ and Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, QC should become sister cities.

Now then you mention it, strange then Saint-Louis-du Ha!Ha! isn't close to the Bay of the Ha!-Ha! A bay of the Saguenay river.

[civilmaher]

Almost anything between Philly and Allentown...

Hosensack
Schwenksville
Bala Cynwyd
Upper Black Eddy
Perkiomen

[empirestate]

Almost anything between Philly and Allentown...

Hosensack
Schwenksville
Bala Cynwyd
Upper Black Eddy
Perkiomen

Why limit to a specific portion of PA, when the state as a whole offers such bounty? For example, Jim Thorpe...because that's obviously less weird than the previous name, Mauch Chunk.

[DeaconG]

Almost anything between Philly and Allentown...

Hosensack
Schwenksville
Bala Cynwyd
Upper Black Eddy
Perkiomen

Bala Cynwyd is right across the county line from where I lived in Philly...I would go shopping at the Acme there (now Albertson's) every time I could come home on visits.

The last name is pronounced "Kin-wid".

[english si]

Yes - that's simply Welsh orthography - or at least slightly distorted Welsh orthography.

[hotdogPi]

Sandwich, MA

Florida, MA

[vtk]

Not a town, but some people think it's funny that we have Hancock County and Wood county, and bonus: they're adjacent!

Fredonia, OH.  Sounds like the name of a fictional kingdon imagined by a boy named Fred.

South Charleston, OH. What's funny is people call it South Chuck for short.  See also: West Jeff.

Peebles, OH.  It's in southern Ohio, where Peebles is the name of a fairly prolific grocery store chain.  There is no Peebles in Peebles.

Wonderland, OH.  Formerly a settlement near Gahanna, now mostly abandoned. There's a church, and there's some kind of light industry that I think deals with rocks which has claimed and fenced off most of Wonderland.  There's a metaphor in here somewhere.

[roadman65]

Yonkers, NY always struck me as an odd name. 

[Thing 342]

I have always thought Newport News, Va was an odd name for a city, especially compared to the rather English names of the surrounding cities.
Round O, SC
Ordinary, VA
Due West, SC
Medicine Hat, AB

[roadman65]

Newport News sounds like the name of a Newspaper.  I know that it got its name from Christopher Newport, but where did the news come in?

[1995hoo]

Yonkers, NY always struck me as an odd name. 

It's a corruption of the Dutch word "Jonker," which was a sort of title given to the guy who owned that land back when the small town on an island nearby was called New Amsterdam.

Regarding Newport News, nobody's sure about "News," but the Wikipedia article about the city has a pretty good summary of various theories.


Other goofy names:

–Wank, Germany

–Crapstone, England

–Chipping Sodbury, England

–East Breast, Scotland

–Shitterton, England

–Penistone, England (pronounced PENNIS-tun)

–Several places in the US and Canada use the word "Negro" in place of an earlier term that is nowadays sometimes deemed offensive to black people (example: Negro Bill Canyon in Utah).

[NE2]

holy crap Scunthorpe

[CNGL-Leudimin]

It should be twinned with that Fucking village in Austria.

And there is no town called Cuñt in Spain, they have overlooked the "i" of Cunit.

(And there is no town called genius either. I had to misspell the c-word with the typical Spanish letter since I wasn't insulting anybody)

[hotdogPi]

Mexico, ME: directly on US 2

Mexico, NY: directly on NY 3

Alanland, JK: directly on NE2

[CNGL-Leudimin]

More profan locations:
Puta, Azerbaijan (Spanish for "slut")
Zorra, ON, Canada (Spanish for "bitch")
Shit, Iran
Poo, Spain

A few American placenames in the old continent:
Pennsylvanien, Denmark
Kalifornien, Germany
California, an estate near Barcelona, Spain
Amerika, Netherlands
Philadelphia, England, UK (Named after the American one)
New York, England, UK (It's North of Boston, the town that named the city in MA)

And a few "short" ones:
Bandar Seri Begawan, capital of Brunei.
Sri Jayawadenapura Kotte, capital of Sri Lanka.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, town in Wales, UK.
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, hill in New Zealand.
And the ceremonial name of Bangkok, capital of Thailand, is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.

[english si]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, town in Wales, UK.

No - the village is called Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, it is the station that has the ridiculously long name as a Victorian marketing gimmick.

[1995hoo]

Then you have Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Massachusetts. It's also known as Lake Webster (Webster is also the name of a nearby town).