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.
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Re: Funny place names
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.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
Re: Funny place names
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.
Last edited by Randarkmaan; 12-17-2006 at 00:17.
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