Okay, so maybe we should extend this to all the English speaking world . . . . ?

In looking down the list of crop circle occurances I was struck by
some of the names . . . Cheesefoot Head and Cheesefoot Bottom, Gander
Down, etc, etc.

I wonder what are some of the funniest place names in the English speaking world?

The answerfinder most likely will provide us with just the site . . .

The winning commenter will receive 'Five Twinklies'  * * * * * to put in your hat!

ts

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Clarification of Question by timespacette-ga on 26 Nov 2004 10:31 PST

P'raps if we're really clever we could put it all to poetry . . . 

To kick things off, here's a poem which includes several funnies from
the Pacific North Wet:

(place names in CAPS - almost all Native American origin, I think)

Chet loved to WALLA WALLA	
In breakers warm and wet
In all DUWAMISH water
Would splash and WOLLOCHET.

And was he brave?
WENATCHEE!
And also ELOCHOMAN
?Til LATAH he fell in with
A LILLIWAUP named Anne.

ALLALLA PALOUSE was Annie
?Lor LUMMI, wasn?t she though?
She had ASOTIN something
That should have laid CHETLO.

She saw him in DEWATTO,
Afloatin? on his back,
With TATOOSH on his TUMTUM
That made her lips go smack!

Now WHATCOM over Annie?
?Twas love ATTALIA that,
Her heart went HAMMA HAMMA,
Her teeth went KLICKITAT!

She said, ?You are MALOTT dear;
WYNOOCHEE kiss me pet??
The MATTAWA her ardor,
Was not returned by Chet.

So ANACORTES Chester,
She has to HAVERMALE,
But he replies, ?TONASKET!
OHOP off.  Hit the trail!?

?NASELLE me your embraces,?
She begs him with sweet moan.
?My family?s ALGONA
And I must sleep alone.?

With METHOW in her madness,
Once more the girl began.
?I SEKIU, and you only . . .
ALAVA you!? SPOKANE.

cheers!

ts

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Clarification of Question by timespacette-ga on 04 Dec 2004 17:16 PST

tutuzdad,

you have exceeded all expectations in both content and volume!

why not post your personal favorites as an answer, pass GO and collect two dollars?

cheers to you!

ts

Dear timespacette-ga:

Thank you for letting me have fun with your question and for choosing
me as the winner in your short humor contest.

My all time favorite strange place name is Toad Suck, Arkansas. Not
only because the name is weird, but because of the mystery surrounding
the origin of it's name. There are many debateable versions of how the
name came to be and it's fun to try and solve the mystery. I've
actually been to Toad Suck and it's a wonderful place in spite of it's
odd name.

SILLY SIGNS
http://www.aaronisnotamused.com/albums/sillysigns/ToadSuck.jpg

TOAD SUCK ARKANSAS
http://users.aristotle.net/~russjohn/toadsuck.html

regards;
tutuzdad-ga

thanks 'zdad!
I think maybe I don't really *want* to hear about how some of these
other places got their names!
:-)
ts

How's this?

Alabama 
Aimwell; Bobo; Burnt Corn; Eclectic; Intercourse; Muck City 

Alaska 
Chicken; Deadhorse; Eek; Lefthand Bay; Nightmute; Unalaska; Arizona
Bagdad; Boneyard; Bootlegger Crossing;Bumble Bee; Carefree; Chloride;
Floss; Goobertown;
Goodyear; Many Farms; Nothing; Show Low; Strong; Surprise; Three
Forks; Tuba City; Two Guns; Why; Winkleman

Arkansas 
Bald Knob; Beaver; Biggers; Blue Eye; Experiment; Fannie; Fifty-Six;
Flippin; Gassville; Greasy Corner; Grubbs; Hasty; Hooker; Magazine;
Moscow; Nuckles; Okay; Pocahontas; Possum Grape; Romance; Smackover;
Strawberry; Toad Suck;
Turkey Scratch; Umpire; Weiner; Yellville 

California 
5 Brooks; Advance; Alliance; Arcade; Aromas; Avocado; Badger;
Badwater; Bagdad; Bee Rock; Bend; Bivalve; Blunt; Booneville;
Bumblebee; Bummerville; Cabbage Patch; Cactus; Chiquita; Clapper Gap;
Confidence; Cool; Cow Creek; Dairyville;
Date City; Deadman Crossing; Deadwood; Dixieland; Doghouse Junction;
Dogtown; Dunmovin; Eureka; Fair Play; Fallen Leaf; False Klamath;
Forks of Salmon; Fort Dick; Freedom; Fruitland; Frying Pan; Gas Point;
Globe; Grand; Hallelujah Junction; Hardy; Harmony; Hellhole Palms;
Hells Kitchen; Honda; Honeydew; Hooker; Idlewild; Igo; Java; Jupiter;
Keg; King Salmon; Klondike; Last Chance; Laws; Little Penny; Mad
River; Mormon Bar; Mystic; Nashville; Needles; Ono; Orange; Peanut;
Plaster City; Priest; Ragtown; Rainbow; Rancho Cucamonga; Relief;
Rescue; Rice; Roads End; Rough and Ready; Sargent; Scarface; Secret
Town; Shrub; Siberia; Skidoo; Sky High; Skytop; Soapweed; Soda
Springs;
Squabbletown; Standish; Steam; Stone; Stovepipe; Strawberry; Sucker
Flat; Surf; Surfside; Surprise; Tarzana; Teakettle Junction; Thorn;
Timbuctoo; Toadtown; Truths Home; Volcano; Weed; Weedpatch; Wimp; You
Bet; Yreka Zzyzx

California 
Spanish Town Name Translations 
Asuncion (Translation = Assumption) 
Boca (Translation = Mouth) 
Bonita (Translation = Beautiful) 
Chico (Translation = Little Boy) 
Chula Vista (Translation = Insolent View) 
Concepcion (Translation = Conception) 
Escondido (Translation = Hidden) 
Fortuna (Translation = Fortune) 
Hacienda Del Florasol (Translation = Ranch of the Sun Flower) 
Los Gatos (Translation = The Cats) 
Los Olivos (Translation = The Olive Trees) 
Los Osos (Translation = The Bears) 
Mariposa (Translation = Butterfly) 
Pajaro (Translation = Bird) 
Palo Verde (Translation = Green Wood) 
Rancho Llano Seco (Translation = Dry Level Farm) 
Roblar (Translation = To Rivet) 
Salinas (Translation = Salt Mines) 
Sandia (Translation = Watermelon) 
Soledad (Translation = Solitude) 
Tierra del Sol (Translation = Land of Sun) 
Tortuga (Translation = Turtle) 
Verde (Translation = Green) 

Colorado 
Climax; Dinosaur; Hygiene; Last Chance; No Name; Parachute; Security;
Tincup; Yellow Jacket

Connecticut 
Giants Neck; Mianus; Moodus; Moosup 

Delaware 
Blue Ball; Cocked Hat; Hourglass; Little Heaven 

Florida 
Christmas; Frostproof; Jupiter; Howey-in-the-Hills; Kissimmee; Lorida;
Mayo; Niceville; Okahumpka; Panacea; Plant City; Red Head; Sopchoppy;
Two Egg; Webster; Weeki Wachee; Weewahitchka; Yeehaw Junction; Yellow
Water

Georgia 
Between; Chickasawhatchee; Climax; Enigma; Cumming; Hopeulikit; Jinks;
Santa Claus; Snapfinger; Talking Rock

Hawaii 
Papa 

Idaho
Beer Bottle Crossing; Fruitland; Star 

Illinois 
Big Foot Prairie; Fishhook; Grand Detour; Kickapoo; Metropolis;
Normal; Oblong; Paw Paw; Roachtown; Sandwich; Wonder Lake

Indiana 
Acme; Ballstown; Beanblossom; Beehunter; Buddha; Carefree; Fickle;
Floyds Knobs; French Lick; Gas City; Gnaw Bone; Loogootee; Munster;
Pinhook; Plainvillle; Roachdale; Santa Clause; Spraytown; Steam
Corner; Surprise; Toad Hop

Iowa 
Diagonal; Gravity; Manly; What Cheer 

Kansas 
Admire; Beaver; Buttermilk; Cuba; Denmark; Gas; Holland; Hope;
Jetmore; Plainville; Ransom; Rome; Zurich

Kentucky 
Beaver Lick; Beefhide; Bug; Bugtussle; Busy; Butterfly; Combs;
Crummies; Do Stop; Drip Rock; Dwarf; Eighty-eight; Hand Shoe; Hi Hat;
Jinks; Jugville; Lick Fork; London; Monkey's Eyebrow; Mousie; Mud
Lick; Oddville; Ogle; Ordinary; Oven Fork; Paint Lick; Paris; Possum
Trot; Rabbit Hash; Soft Shell; Spring Lick;Typo; Uno

Louisiana 
Belcher; Bunkie; Convent; Cut-Off; Dry Prong; Eros; Fort Necessity;
Goodbee; Grosse Tete; Jigger; Metropolis; Mudville; Tickfaw; Uncle
Sam; Waterproof; Zylks

Maine 
Bald Head; Bath; Beans Corner Bingo; Dickey; Robinhood 

Maryland 
Accident; Assawoman Bay; Boring; California; Cockeysville; Hollywood;
Pomonkey; Secretary

Massachusetts 
Belchertown; Braintree; Cow Yard; Dorothy Pond; Egypt; Gay Head;
Marblehead; Mashpee; Sandwich; Swampscott; Ware (as in "where?")

Michigan 
Bad Axe; Christmas; Climax; Eden; Gay; Hell; Jugville; Kalamazoo;
Olive Branch; Paradise; Pigeon; Pine Stump Junction; Podunk; Slapneck

Minnesota 
Blue Earth; Climax; Embarass; Fertile; Nimrod; Nowthen; Savage;
Sleepy Eye 

Mississippi 
Alligator; Arm; Askew; Basic; Battles; Bobo; Chunky; Coffeeville; Cold
Water; Darling; Denmark; D'Lo; Dragon; Eden; Egypt; Hollywood; Hot
Coffee; Kokomo; Midnight; Olive Branch; Onward; Paris; Pocahontas;
Possumneck; Sanatorium; Scooba; Soso; Tie Plant; Walls; Yazoo

Missouri 
Bean Lake Station; Bible Grove; Blue Eye; Coldwater; Conception;
Enough; Fairdealing; Fidelity; Frankenstein; Humansville; Licking;
Mexico; Nevada; Paris; Peculiar; Pleasant Hope; Reform; Roach;
Romance; Sleeper; Tightwad; Useful

Montana 
Belt; Big Arm; Eureka; Bigfork; Big Sky; Bitterroot; Checkboard;
Divide; Elmo; Happy's Inn; Hungry Horse; Offer; Opportunity; Outlook;
Rocky Boy; Saint Regis; Square Butt; Sweetgrass; Two-dot; Yaak

Nebraska 
Beaver Crossing; Colon; Fort Crook; Loup City; Roach; Surprise;
Valentine; Wahoo; Weeping Water; Worms

Nevada 
Jackpot; Searchlight; Weed Heights 

New Hampshire 
Berlin; Bow; Bungy; Contoocook; Grape Corner; Hell Hollow; Lost
Nation; Sandwich Landing; Rye

New Jersey 
Bivalve; Brick; Cheesequake; Cherry Hill; Cologne; Colts Neck; Egg
Harbor; Good Intent; Ho-ho Kus; Little Egg Harbor; Love Ladies;
Succasunna

New Mexico 
Elephant Butte; Texico; Tingle; Truth or Consequences (it used to be
named "Hot Springs")

New York 
Bath; Cat Elbow Corner; Climax; Florida; Gayhead; Hicksville;
Horseheads; Neversink; Painted Post; Place Corners; Result;
Ronkonkoma; Surprise; Yaphank Yonkers

North Carolina 
Askewville; Avon; Bahama; Bat Cave; Bath; Big Lick; Blowing Rock;
Bolivia; Bunlevel; Climax; Duck; Frog Level; Frog Pond; Grimesland;
Gum Neck; Horneytown; Kill Devil Hills; Meat Camp; Lizard Lick; Speed;
Tick Bite; Toast; Welcome; Wise; Whynot

North Dakota 
Antler; Colgate; Concrete; Hoople; Voltaire; Zap 

Ohio 
Ai; Blue Ball; Climax; Fly; Hicksville; Home; Knockemstiff; Three Legs
Town; Tobasco

Oklahoma 
Bowlegs; Cookietown; Frogville; Happy Land; Hooker; Kremlin; Okay;
Pumpkin Center; Slapout; Slaughterville

Oregon 
Beaver; Boring; Drain; Eureka; Half.com; Idiotville; Sodaville;
Windmaster Corner; Zig Zag

Pennsylvania 
Bath; Balltown; Bath Addition; Beaver; Beverly Hills; Big Beaver;
Bird-in-Hand; Blue Ball; California; Climax; Corner Store; Desire;
Drab; Eighty Four; Experiment; Fear Not; Forty Fort; Gravity; Hershey;
Home; Indiana; Intercourse; Jersey Shore; King of Prussia;
Loyalsockville; Mars; Moon; Moscow; Nanty Glo; New Beaver; Ono; Panic;
Paradise; Peach Bottom; Pillow; Porkey; Possum Hollow; Pottstown;
Quiggleville; Scalp Level; Slate Lick; Slippery Rock; Transfer;
Telescope; Torpedo; Uno; Virginville

Rhode Island 
Mooseup Valley; Quidnick; Quonochontaug; Woonsocket 

South Carolina 
Coward; Due West; Little Switzerland; Ninetimes; Ninety Six; North;
Round O; Six Mile; Southern Shops; South of the Border; Townville;
Welcome

South Dakota 
Bath; Epiphany; Faith; Farmer; Gayville; Green Grass; Hammer;
Hitchcock; Ideal; Igloo; Java; Kidder; Lemmon; Oral; Parade; Peever;
Porcupine; Potato Creek; Pringle; Pumpkin Center; Red Shirt; Tolstoy;
Vienna; Wall; White; Wood; Yale

Tennessee 
Blue Goose; Bugscuffle; Bugtussle; Bucksnort; Defeated; Difficult;
Disco; Ducktown; Finger; Life; Nameless; Only; Paris; Smartt; Static;
Sweet Lips

Texas 
Bacon; Bean Station; Ben Hur; Black Jack; Canadian; China; Comfort;
Converse; Cut -n- Shoot; Ding Dong; Dime Box; Earth; Echo; Energy;
Flower Mound; Grapevine; Gun Barrel City; Happy; Hoop and Holler;
Humble; Little Hope; London; Looneyville;  Marathon; Muleshoe; Noodle;
Oatmeal; Paint Rock; Paris;
Pointblank; Quail; Smiley; Sour Lake; Spur; Sugar Land; Tarzan;
Telegraph; Telephone; Trophy Club; Turkey; Uncertain; Valentine;
Veribest; Waxahachie; West; Wink

Utah
Eureka; Hurricane; Mexican Hat; Orangeville; Orderville; Paradise; Plain City 

Vermont
Bread Loaf; Mosquitoville; Notown; Moscow; Satans Kingdom

Virginia
Antlers; Bagdad; Bane; Ben Hur; Bosses; Bumpass; Butts; California;
Clam; Croaker; Cuckoo; Delaware; Eureka; Fourway (2 of them); Fries;
Frogtown; Goochland; Hurricane; Hurt; Jamaica; Java; Joe Neets;
Kermit; Lick Skillet; Lipps; Moon; Moonlight (2 of them); Mutt;
Needmore; Nuttsville; Ontario; Ordinary; Peach Bottom; Shiny Rock;
Short Pump; Simplicity; Threeway; Pocket

Washington
Forks; George; Humptulips; Index; Tukwila; Tumtum; Tumwater; Walla Walla 

West Virginia
Big Chimney; Big Ugly; Crum; FiveMile; Friendly; HooHoo; Hundred;
Hurricane; Junior; Kermit; Left Hand; Looneyville; Lost City; Man;
Nitro; Odd; Paw; Pinch; Quick; Van; War

Wisconsin
Beetown; Embarrass; Footville; Imalone; Spread Eagle; Ubet; Wanderoos 

Wyoming
Baggs; Big Sandy; Camel Hump; Chugwater; Cokeville; Meeteetse; Muddy
Gap; Point of Rocks; Sand Draw


:)   I win!

tutuzdad-ga

I like Chipping Sodbury.

Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1966) contains many
more, including (in alphabetical order) Barton-in-the-Beans, Deaf Hill
cum Langdale, Freezywater, Kill St Nicholas, Middle Wallop, Over
Peover, Pennycumquick, Up Ottery and Zeal Monachorum.
  Another reference book - Oliver Mason's Gazetteer of England (1972)
- includes Old Sodbury in Gloucestershire, Bag Enderby in Lincolnshire
and Upperthong in Yorkshire. It also contains some neat pairings:
Great Snoring and Little Snoring; Down St Mary and Peasedown St John. 
(more ...)
http://www.thisislimitededition.co.uk/item.asp?category=Wordplay&ID=136

Owain

There is also the village in Innviertel in upper Austria, pronounced
'fooking' but spelt, ahem, well a google search for fooking innviertel
will produce results, including one in Chinese!

Owain

My favourite is Boggart Hole Clough ...

'Tis somewhere near where I was born in Oldham (pronounced Owdam or
Howdam if you are posh) in Lancashire, North West of Angleterre.

Can't think why.

Here's a selction of UK place and feature names.
Start at A and work your way through. Some involve British slang.
http://places.jump-around.com/browse/?a=A
answerfinder-ga

In addition to what I have already offered, in both Arkansas and Texas
there are towns named "Possum Kingdom". In Texas, there is even a
State Park named that.
POSSUM KINGDOM STATE PARK
http://www.iboats.com/dir/sites/1007485221.html

Here are some others in Arkansas: 

There is a town called "Scrouge Out":
http://homebridge.com/Builder/Arkansas/Drew/Scrouge_Out/Refinance.html

On named "Sixteenth Section"
http://homebridge.com/Builder/Arkansas/Drew/Sixteenth_Section/Refinance.html

Red Neck
http://homebridge.com/Builder/Arkansas/Drew/Red_Neck/Refinance.html

Negro Bend
http://homebridge.com/Builder/Arkansas/Drew/Negro_Bend/Refinance.html

Lone Sasafras
http://homebridge.com/Builder/Arkansas/Drew/Lone_Sasafras/Refinance.html

Killin
http://homebridge.com/Builder/Arkansas/Drew/Killin/Refinance.html

Monkey Run
http://homebridge.com/Builder/Arkansas/Baxter/Monkey_Run/Refinance.html

I used to live in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. It's not a funny name, but I
thought it was very picturesque. My online friends pictured me in the
Wild West, living in a log cabin with a conestoga wagon parked in the
driveway.

Looks like tutuzdad, representing the American contingent, is WAY ahead here . . .

with some interesting tidbits from the peanut gallery . . .

what about Australia-New Zealand, Canada, eh?

ts

Hi ts...

How is this list of names of unusual places in Canada:

... try these ones on, eh!

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR:  
Bacon Cove 
Bareneed 
Berry's Head 
Blow Me Down 
Come By Chance 
Conception Bay 
Cow Head 
Cupids 
Deadman's Bay/Cove 
Fogo 
Foxtrap 
Happy Adventure 
Heart's Content 
Heart's Delight 
Heart's Desire 
Herring Neck 
Hooping Harbour 
Jerry's Nose 
Joe Batt's Arm 
Lawn 
Little Heart's Ease 
Little Paradise 
Little Seldom 
Luke's Arm 
Mosquito 
Nameless Cove 
Nippers Harbour 
Noggin Cove 
Paradise 
Red Head Cove 
River of Ponds 
Robert's Arm 
Snooks Arm 
Spanish Room 
Sweet Bay 
Tickle Cove 
Toogood Arm 
Witless Bay 
 
NOVA SCOTIA:  
Bucklaw 
Concession 
Cow Bay 
Crows Nest 
Ecum Secum (EEE-kum-SEE-kum) 
Egypt 
Eureka 
Garden of Eden 
Lower Economy 
Malignant Cove 
Meat Cove 
Mushaboom 
Paradise 
Pleasantville 
Roachvale 
St. Margret's Head 
Shag Harbour 
Sissiboo Falls 
Sober Island 
Two Sheds 
Wildcat 
Yankeetown 
 
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND:  
Crapaud 
Flat River 
Point Prim 
Savage Harbour 
 
NEW BRUNSWICK:  
Beaver Dam 
Burnt Church 
Chance Harbour 
Marigold 
Mechanic 
Mount Pleasant 
Plaster Rock 
Poodiac 
Pokemouche 
Ripples 
Sunny Corner 
Wood Point 
 
QUEBEC:  
Asbestos 
Cadillac 
Chapeau (hat) 
Crabtree 
Drapeau (flag) 
Mayo 
Poissant (fish) 
Rivière-Trois-Pistoles (3 Pistols River) 
Saint-Loius-du-Ha-Ha! 
 
ONTARIO:  
Azilda 
Bent River 
Big Chute 
Bright 
Bummers Roost 
Buzwah 
Cape Croker 
Carrying Place 
Cheapside 
Eden 
Ethel 
Fruitland 
Hoards 
New Credit 
Ochiichagwebabigoining (if anybody can pronounce this one, let me know) 
Oil Springs 
Pain Court 
Pickle Lake 
Porcupine 
Precious Corners 
Pronto 
Proton Station 
Scugog 
Shining Tree 
Silver Dollar 
Snowball 
Snug Harbour 
Sour Spring 
Swastika 
Swords 
Tiny 
Uphill 
Wawa 
Whitedog 
Wild Goose 
Wiseman's Corners 
 
MANITOBA:  
Bacon Ridge 
Bird 
Birdtail 
Camper 
Cranberry Portage 
Dropmore 
Finger 
Flin Flon 
Gods Lake 
Jackhead 
Moosehorn 
Seven Sisters Falls 
Snowflake 
Starbuck 
Vivian 
White Mud Falls 
Windygates 
 
SASKATCHEWAN:  
Adanac (Canada spelled backwards) 
Big Beaver 
Bigger (than other towns?) 
Cadillac 
Carrot River 
Climax the ending) 
Cut Knife 
Drinkwater 
Elbow 
Eyebrow 
Fairy Glen 
Fertile 
Grandmother's Bay 
Green Acres 
Grizzly Bear's Head 
Holdfast 
Key 
Little Black Bear 
Nut Mountain 
Old Wives 
Old Arrow 
Poor Man 
Porcupine Plain 
Primate 
Ruthilda 
Saltcoats 
Sanctuary 
Sceptre 
Smuts 
Spy Hill 
Star Blanket 
Success 
Sucker River 
Thunderchild 
Tramping Lake 
Unity 
Uranium City 
Yellow Grass 
 
ALBERTA:  
Bearberry 
Beaver Crossing 
Big Stone 
Buffalo Head Prarie 
Carrot Creek 
Czar 
Entrance 
Flyingshot Lake 
Goodfish Lake 
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (National historical site) 
High Level 
John D 
Keg River 
Legal 
Little Smokey 
Meander River 
Medicine Hat 
Meeting Creek 
Milk River 
Mirror 
Nojack 
Onefour 
Paddle Prarie 
Pelican 
Purple Springs 
Rocky Mountain House 
Rosebud 
Seven Persons 
Stand Off 
Tiger Lily 
Tomahawk 
Two Hills 
Valhalla Centre 
Veteran 
Viking 
Vulcan 
Wandering River 
Westward Ho 
Whiskey Gap 
Wild Horse 
Wood Buffalo 
 
BRITISH COLUMBIA:  
Alice Arm 
Baldy Hughes 
Beaverdell 
Big Bar Creek 
Bella Bella 
Blind Bay 
Blind Channel 
Bliss Landing 
Blubber Bay 
Buckinghorse River 
Burnt Flat 
Chase 
Clo-oose 
Dog Creek 
False Bay 
Fireside 
Flathead 
Gang Ranch 
Horsefly 
Hydraulic 
Kamloops 
Mission 
Moose Heights 
Osoyoos 
Penny 
Pouce Coupe (french for "cut flea") 
Salmon Arm 
Skookumchuck 
Soda Creek 
Spuzzum 
Squamish 
Stoner 
Ta ta Creek 
Woodfibre 
Yaak 
Yellowhead 
Ymir 
 
YUKON TERRITORIES:  
Brooks Brook 
Champagne 
Sixtymile 
Snag 
Whitehorse 
 
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES & NUNAVUT:  
Enterprise 
Fort Providence 
Fort Resolution 
Snare Lake 
Yellowknife  

Steph53

How about Dildo Newfoundland?

Here is a nice page about the F**king town in Austria.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp

Hi TS,

I have found reference to Heaven, Hell and even Shag Island of the
Pacific. I have been looking for the comedic STORY of Australian place
names for you to no avail. It's a play on words including Wilcannia
(Well can ya?) and Gundagai (Gunned a guy). Not to be confused with
the SONG "I've been everywhere man".
 
Another element you might enjoy is the use of palindromes. TUMUT, NSW
and GLENELG, SA are two that I recall. I believe that there is at
least a third in Australia.

Might the following reference prove to have found the funniest place
name? I'm unsure as to it's population, yet by definition, it remains
as a place.

http://www.kids.net.au/encyclopedia/?p=ba/Bang_Bang_Jump_Up

Phil

Phil, I'd love to see that STORY . . .!

Augusta and Bearspaw . . . whoa nellie! . . . didn't think this page
was going to slide into an X rating!

Hope the gods of GA do not smite us . . .

(that snopes site is hysterical!)

ts

Pitcairn Island definitely wins the gold for their weirdest names.
Here are a few examples:

PITCAIRN PLACE NAMES
http://www.lareau.org/pitplace.html


AH CUT
BITEY-BITEY 
BOP BOP
BREAK IM HIP
DOWN ROPE
DOWN UNDER JOHNNY FALL
ED'S COC'NUTS
HEADACHE
HILL OF DIFFICULTY
JOHN CATCH A COW
LITTLE GEORGE COC'NUTS
NO GUTS CAPTAIN
OH DEAR
RAT'S HOLE
SIX FEET
TIMITI'S CRACK
TOM'S BLOCK
TWO BOARS ROLL
UGLY NAME SIDE 
UNDER THE COFFEE
UP IN TI 
WATER DROP 
WATER WALLEY
WHERE DAN FALL
WHERE FREDDIE FALL
WHERE MINNIE OFF 
WHERE REYNOLDS CUT THE FIREWOOD
WHERE TOM OFF

:)

Tutuzdad-ga

oy!

tutuzdad has jumped national boundaries and hit New Zealand!

OH DEAR I think I would get a HEADACHE 
if I climbed the HILL OF DIFFICULTY only to find ED'S . . .
OH DEAR I better stop right there . . . 
or I'll be SIX FEET under in a Google Editor's RAT'S HOLE . . . 
OH DEAR, OH DEAR

;-)

ts

tutuzdad!

see last clarification section!

I'm feeling generous tonight!

ts