Funny place names [Archive]

ZombieFriedNuts

12-07-2006, 23:19

Ok I live near a couple of places that are quite funny if you’ve never heard them before for example “Chipping Sodbury” yep actual place, not quite as funny but “The Shoe” consists of a pub and about four houses.
So anybody got funny names

drone

12-08-2006, 00:09

Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

DemonArchangel

12-08-2006, 05:31

http://www.i-r-genius.com/rudeplaces.html

Aenlic

12-08-2006, 05:44

I live not too far from Cut-n-Shoot, Texas and Dime Box, Texas. Up near Dallas/Ft. Worth is the town of Dish which used to be the town of Clark until they agreed to change the name to Dish in exchange for free Dish network satellite TV service for all of the resident. That's got to be the dumbest reason for a town name I've ever heard.

Hepcat

12-08-2006, 09:48

Well Whakarewarewa and Whakatane are 2 places not very far from where I live. It is so funny hearing American tourists trying to pronounce them after hearing someone else say it. This is because in Maori 'Wha' is pronounced similar to 'Far' and while we think nothing of saying it, Americans always hesitate or purposely pronounce it wrong because it sounds exactly like swearing.

Then there is one story my math teacher told me (he is from England) about when he first started staying in NZ. One of his Scottish friends told him "Come with us we're going to Whakatane." and his response was "OK, but whats a Tane?"
:shame:

Pretty bad joke, I know.

BigTex

12-08-2006, 09:49

Paris, Texas the Eiffel tower wears a cowboy hat.

Gregoshi

12-09-2006, 08:10

Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

Ah, yes, Intercourse - that's not too far from my home. You know that a short drive from Intercourse leads you to Paradise - but take the long route via Gap since the scenery is pretty. ~;) Exploring the roads in that area too long and you'll end up in Blue Ball. Also in this neck of the woods is the small town of Bird-in-Hand, which is, in fact, worth two in the bush. :laugh4:

cegorach

12-09-2006, 10:36

Beirut

12-09-2006, 12:37

Gregoshi, you knave. You saucy knave. ~:yin-yang:

KrooK

12-09-2006, 13:05

On Hunguary there is place called Nagykutas - "Nagi kutas" means nake.d di.ck in polish :)

Justiciar

12-09-2006, 13:44

There's a town in Spain called Poo.. or Po as of 2005. Doesn't quite beat the Austrian-Bavarian trio of Petting, Kissing and the aforementioned 'F'ing.

Red Peasant

12-09-2006, 14:08

I use to go out with a girl from Cockermouth in Cumbria.

Sjakihata

12-09-2006, 18:17

I used to live in the City of Middelfart.

Incongruous

12-09-2006, 23:42

Bull's is a fairly strange name, but yes Whakatane is the best I have come across so far.

Hepcat

12-10-2006, 09:16

There is a place called Moose Factory in Canada, and not too far away is Moosonee.

yesdachi

12-11-2006, 15:35

There is a Hell in Michigan.

spmetla

12-11-2006, 20:07

I still remember the story of a German or Austrian town Fuc****ing and its frustrated mayor who was complaining that whenever English 'tourists' ( a sort of them) come here they usually have to buy new signs with the name of the town...:laugh4:

Here ya go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria

I like the wiki list for placenames with english meanings; Wank, Bavaria :laugh4:

Quid

12-14-2006, 17:42

There is a place in Bern called Wankdorf. 'Dorf' meaning village. I only realised when some Irish mates, who went to see Switzerland playing, brought it to my attention. Very odd. I cannot say that name in good conscience any longer.

Incidentally, the stadium is called Wankdorf Stadion.

Quid

Gregoshi

12-14-2006, 20:11

I drove through Blue Ball on Sunday - twice.:wreck: Not surprisingly, it was going to and from Hershey. ~;) Alas, Intercourse, Paradise and Gap were too far out of the way, but I did have the pleasure of passing through Honeybrook both coming and going.:eyebrows: As a side note, I was rather distressed to see that the local dance studio in Blue Ball was putting on a performance of The Nutcracker for the Christmas season.:fainting:

I am not making any of this up. :laugh4:

Scurvy

12-14-2006, 23:41

English assassin

12-15-2006, 13:34

Just so this post is vaguely on topic, I often drive through a place called Wyre Piddle in Worcestershire, which is mildly amusing. They have their own brewery which produces Piddle Ales such as Piddle in the Hole and a winter ale called Piddle in the Snow, although that may be trying just a touch too hard. Should you find yourself there on a summer evening I strongly recommend a pint in the Anchor Inn, watching the sun go down over the river, called, perhaps inevitably, the Piddle Brook.

That's enough piddle. Moving swiftly on to email addresses, I recently saw an email from the National Union of Students (something to do with a bill in Parliament since you ask). Their email domain is nus.org.uk. Imagine my delight when I realised that this means all their email addresses are @nus.org.uk....

Banquo's Ghost

12-15-2006, 21:54

Sometimes, residents get tired of this stuff.

There's a link in the spoil tag which contains placenames of a embarrassing nature, at least for the residents of those towns.

Red-faced residents want new name (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2119142.html?menu=)

Randarkmaan

12-16-2006, 21:06

There's a municpality in Norway called Modum which was declared a few years ago as having the country's ugliest place names (lakes and similar) among those were...
A lake called "kuktjern" - meaning "cock lake"
Another lake called "Bergsjø" - which just means "hill sea/lake" or "mountain sea/lake" but is pronounced by locals as something like "bæsjø" which would mean "shit lake"
A cottage called "runkebu" - "runke" means to wank/masturbate/jerk off
A place called "Merrafitta" - roughly meaning "the bitch cunt"
A place called "Rassballehaugene" - "Ass ball tops/hills"

Sorry for nasty language... and fortunately most of these are only understandable by Norwegians.

Patriarch of Constantinople

12-17-2006, 07:12

I still remember the story of a German or Austrian town Fuc****ing and its frustrated mayor who was complaining that whenever English 'tourists' ( a sort of them) come here they usually have to buy new signs with the name of the town...:laugh4:

Ah yes F***ing, Austria the "u" is pronounced like the "u" in English "put". Means “place of Focko’s people”.

https://img220.imageshack.us/img220/849/280pxfucking2caustria2cmc1.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Motep

12-17-2006, 07:14

Hell, Minisota.

Patriarch of Constantinople

12-17-2006, 07:18

Condom, Gers
Die, France
Hell, Norway
Kissing, Germany
Leek, Staffordshire

Patriarch of Constantinople

12-17-2006, 07:21

I feel shame by doing this, but
Di*do, Newfoundland and Labrador

Motep

12-17-2006, 07:28

%^it creek, Minnisota

Banquo's Ghost

12-17-2006, 11:20

%^it creek, Minnisota

Really? You mean there is actually one, up which one can be, without a paddle?

How delicious. :beam:

InsaneApache

12-17-2006, 11:29

C'mon you guys from the UK, what about Lower Peover just north of Watford Gap. :inquisitive:

naut

12-17-2006, 11:31

%^it creek, Minnisota
:laugh4:

Banquo's Ghost

12-17-2006, 15:25

There is a Muff in Donegal.

Oh and my favourite - Pennycomequick in the fine county of Devonshire, UK.

InsaneApache

12-17-2006, 17:54

Oh and my favourite - Pennycomequick in the fine county of Devonshire, UK.

You went out with her as well? :inquisitive: :smash:

Banquo's Ghost

12-17-2006, 19:03

You went out with her as well? :inquisitive: :smash:

Indeed.

We went on a quick trip to Donegal, followed by Austria/Bavaria which led inevitably to Devon.

Sadly, I was left in Minnesota without a paddle.

:beam:

ZombieFriedNuts

12-17-2006, 21:19

I forgot Crudwell in the Cotswolds

Shaka_Khan

12-18-2006, 08:30

Knaw Knaw Bone, Waco

Papewaio

12-19-2006, 22:31

When I lived in New Zealand we used to shop in a town called Waipu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waipu) (Why-poo).

And then in Perth, Australia I lived near a suburb called Innaloo (http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innaloo,_Western_Australia).