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Started by golden eagle, June 10, 2010, 12:22:36 AM

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Quote from: ausinterkid on June 21, 2010, 02:02:09 AM

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Quote from: agentsteel53 on June 21, 2010, 10:01:17 AM
Quote from: ausinterkid on June 21, 2010, 02:02:09 AM

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Damn. It looks like he made more then 200 posts but his profile says 8?

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Quote from: KillerTux on June 21, 2010, 10:56:28 AM

Damn. It looks like he made more then 200 posts but his profile says 8?

yeah, I went into the secret admin panel and, uh, changed some numbers.

I can even change his username if the going gets too ornery.

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J N Winkler

A couple of names which have caused me to wonder "What the hell were they thinking":

White Settlement, Texas
Villejuif, France
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Quote from: J N Winkler on June 21, 2010, 12:17:55 PM
A couple of names which have caused me to wonder "What the hell were they thinking":

White Settlement, Texas
Villejuif, France

is White really a reference to the race, as opposed to, say, Captain Theophilus J. White's Merry Band of Explorers, Land Squatters, and Printers of Spurious Private Currency?

and the French - is that "village of Jews"?  My French is pretty rusty.
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Duke87

#57
Going a bit of a different route, here's a couple of redundant names...

First, Table Mesa, CO. "Mesa" is Spanish for "Table", so we've got "Table Table".

Second, in the town of Fishkill, NY (which is kinda funny in and of itself), there is a stream called Fishkill Creek. Here's the thing: "kill" is Dutch for "creek". It's Fish Creek Creek!
And then you have the Wallkill River ("Wall Creek River") - an aquatic "Street Road".
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#58
Quote from: Duke87 on June 21, 2010, 12:55:32 PM
Going a bit of a different route, here's a couple of redundant names...

First, Table Mesa, CO. "Mesa" is Spanish for "Table", so we've got "Table Table".






There's a Table Mesa Road exit off I-17 north of Phoenix.

Another redundant name: The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. "Brea" is Spanish for "tar," so translated, it would be "The The Tar Tar Pits." :spin:
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txstateends

http://www.bing.com/travel/content/search?q=More+Funny+Town+Names%3a+Tightwad%2c+Mo.&cid=msn1200018&form=HPTRAV

Tightwad, MO
Chicken, AK
Hell, Grand Cayman (Cayman Islands)
Monkey's Eyebrow, KY
Crapo, MD
Hot Coffee, MS
Knockemstiff, OH
Hell, MI
Cut and Shoot, TX
Lizard Lick, NC
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1995hoo

Everybody's heard of Fucking, Austria, and Dildo, Newfoundland. But the signs in Fucking are made that much funnier by the sign underneath, which translates as "Please–not so fast!"

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nexus73

Don't forget Phuket in Thailand!

Oregon's funny town names: Drain.  Boring.  Brothers.  Sisters.  Baker.  Talent.  Amity.  Sublimity.  We also have Detroit and Sagninaw for the automotive-inclined folks.  Go to Florence and see all the mileage signposts pointing to the other Florences in the world.  North Bend is not north of Bend.  Coquille's pronunciation by people not from our area usually gives them away.  Get your power in Powers, home of the Powers Cruisers and no, we're not talking about naval units, we're talking timber cruisers. 

Utah still has the best one.  Beaver.  It's in Beaver County.  The high school is the Beaver Beavers.  Runnerup goes to Millard, which is in Fillmore County.

Are there any orange groves left in Orange County CA?  Humor is where you find it!

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Alps

Now y'all can look back and see what names have already come up. One of my favorites from recent travels: Accident, MD. Stay safe!

Takumi

It's not incorporated, but Skinquarter, VA has always been funny to me.
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Quote from: nexus73 on November 09, 2011, 07:22:58 PM
Utah still has the best one.  Beaver.  It's in Beaver County.  The high school is the Beaver Beavers.

Washington also has a Beaver between Forks and Port Angeles on the 101. Didn't recall any prominent signage, though. Our family was going to the Hoh Rain Forest (pronounced "hoe").

Florida doesn't have many funny town names, although Frostproof was named because it seemed to be a good place to grow citrus. But the winter of 1895 proved them wrong.

There's Duck Key (not really a town, but quite large and independent enough) along Overseas Highway towards Key West. I feel like a kid pronouncing it.

The city of Boca Raton translates to "Rat's Mouth" in Spanish. Kind of disappointed the town logo nor high school team uses the rat as a mascot. Even more odd is a private housing community (with some nice lots of land) called Boca Grande, which translates to "Big Mouth"...which is apt for a couple of people from the area, based on experience.

There's a Smut Eye (or Smuteye), Alabama...here's a story about it.

Passed through a Homer in Ohio, along OH 661.

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Quote from: formulanone on November 10, 2011, 07:44:51 AM
Quote from: nexus73 on November 09, 2011, 07:22:58 PM
Utah still has the best one.  Beaver.  It's in Beaver County.  The high school is the Beaver Beavers.

Washington also has a Beaver between Forks and Port Angeles on the 101. Didn't recall any prominent signage, though. Our family was going to the Hoh Rain Forest (pronounced "hoe").

Florida doesn't have many funny town names, although Frostproof was named because it seemed to be a good place to grow citrus. But the winter of 1895 proved them wrong.

There's Duck Key (not really a town, but quite large and independent enough) along Overseas Highway towards Key West. I feel like a kid pronouncing it.

The city of Boca Raton translates to "Rat's Mouth" in Spanish. Kind of disappointed the town logo nor high school team uses the rat as a mascot. Even more odd is a private housing community (with some nice lots of land) called Boca Grande, which translates to "Big Mouth"...which is apt for a couple of people from the area, based on experience.

There's a Smut Eye (or Smuteye), Alabama...here's a story about it.

Passed through a Homer in Ohio, along OH 661.

I have cousins that live in Two Egg (on SR 69 between Greenwood and Grand Ridge).

And I always drive by Faver Dykes State Park on the way up there! (St. Augustine)
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Quote from: yanksfan6129 on June 11, 2010, 05:08:28 PM
Anyone ever visit Buttzville, NJ??

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Ty Ty, GA
Intercourse, PA (up the street is Bird In Hand)  Dirty minds might make a dirty joke here lol!
Cuckoo, VA
Micanopy, FL
Kissimmee, FL (Most mispronounce it as Kiss a me)
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route29

Quote from: formulanone on November 10, 2011, 07:44:51 AMThere's a Smut Eye (or Smuteye), Alabama...here's a story about it.

Lots of funny names in Alabama.  Here's a few more:
Bug Tussle
Slapout
Weogufka

PAHighways

Quote from: roadman65 on November 12, 2011, 06:42:09 PMIntercourse, PA (up the street is Bird In Hand)  Dirty minds might make a dirty joke here lol!

As is Blue Ball.

US71

Peculiar, MO

Should I give a shout-out to Yellville, AR ? ;)
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Your dirty minds on intercourse PA:


Also, Cheesequake NJ....sounds like a slang term for flatulance caused by cheese.

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While traveling to St Louis, I went through the town of Benld, IL.

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How about Reddick, FL.  On the original Exxon fold maps, it was hyphened between the two Ds and made on two lines due to space limitiations making it look like a colorful body part.  I remember bringing it in to school to show my class mates as we had a teacher named something similar to what Exxon printed.
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oscar

Quote from: txstateends on November 09, 2011, 04:49:08 PM
Chicken, AK

Local legend has it that town residents wanted to name it for the local game bird, but nobody knew how to spell "ptarmigan". 

For weird and appalling, there's the town near Kirkland Lake in northern Ontario that clings to the name Swastika, which appears on highway signs and the local post office.  (Yeah, it was named for a local mine, and both the mine and the town were so named long before the Nazis gave swastikas a bad name.  Still....)

Asbestos, Quebec still lives, and I made sure to send some postcards from there when I visited back in September.
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