Funny town/place names near you?

[underpants]

Last edited Fri Oct 12, 2018, 08:52 PM - Edit history (2)

Last night the remnants of Michael came through here.
Wall to wall meteorologists on the local stations. Preempting normal programming. My wife and I crack up watching fellow meteorologists on the same station muscling for air time and often interrupting each other's train of thought.

Anyway, I knew about Bumpass Va. But until last night I wasn't familiar with Mannboro (MAN! BORO) or Ballsville.

[jberryhill]

1. Waddya mean "funny"?

Link to tweet

[Dale Neiburg]

9. Right next to Paradise, as I recall.... n/t

[hvn_nbr_2]

68. And just down the road from Blue Ball. nt

[Mr. Big]

2. Well, here...

We got...

No Name
Last Chance
Nowhere
Climax
Lay
Hygiene
Crook
Paradox
Fearnowville
Wideawake
Wondervu
Nucla
Troublesome
Fink
Plastic
Old Roach

I'm sure there's a few more.. but without breaking out my old Beavis & Butthead Travels around the Country book (it's upstairs, in the bathroom), that's all I can think of.

[Laffy Kat]

7. I recognize some of those from Colorado. nt

[Mr. Big]

22. I've been to Last Chance

It's on the way to Nebraska on I-76

[Laffy Kat]

53. Welcome to DU!

Do you live in NE?

[Mr. Big]

65. Nope. Denver metro area.

Neighborhood is Crestmoor Park

[Laffy Kat]

71. I know where that is! I'm in Lafayette.

[ailsagirl]

18. Welcome to DU, Mr. Big!

[demmiblue]

3. Hell, Michigan

https://www.gotohellmi.com/

[trixie2]

12. You beat me to it.

[JudyM]

82. Always great to go all the way to Climax, MI.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Hopefully JBerryHill will

be able to get through Climax, PA on his ride (oh, that is so wrong in so many ways!).

Here are a few more:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-24/wait-youre-where-11-towns-and-cities-suggestive-names

[jberryhill]

14. I can do Blue Ball, Intercourse and Paradise in one loop

[MyOwnPeace]

19. Sounds like the old days...........

at the drive-n movies!

[skypilot]

74. I was about to post Blue Ball.

Knew someone who lived there until last year. Every time I'd talk about visiting my friend in Blue Ball someone would say "You mean Blue BELL."

Nooo, Blue BALL.

[Ptah]

5. Why

Why, Arizona

[royable]

85. So named because of the "Y" intersection of the roads, I believe. n/t

[rsdsharp]

6. What Cheer, Iowa.

[The Polack MSgt]

8. Around where I grew up

Beaver
Moon
84

[Dulcinea]

89. PA has some great names!

Slate Lick
Venus
Apollo

[femmocrat]

94. A few more from around western PA:

Slippery Rock
Hunker
Peanut
Red Onion
Tire Hill
Ogletown
Scalp Level

Did anyone mention Bird-in-Hand? (central PA, I think)

[Dale Neiburg]

10. Towns here in Maryland run the gamut

from Savage to Boring....

[trixie2]

11. Hell Michigan

Hell Michigan

[Va Lefty]

13. Dooms, VA.

[underpants]

23. Toga VA. About 10 miles east of Appomattox on 24

We used to drive through it on our Roanoke trips. About 5 miles west of the sign signifying the geographical center of Virginia - where 24 breaks off 60.

TOGA! ✊🏼

Why I introduced my daughter to that I have no idea. Toga has a volunteer fire department ....and that's about it.

I've probably been through Dooms. Hadn't noticed it.

[Va Lefty]

25. It's 2 or 3 miles north of Waynesboro on 340, don't blink or you'll miss it

All I can think of is Belushi going "Toga! Toga! Toga!"

[ailsagirl]

15. California has some, but pretty tame!!

There are surely more, but so far I came up with these:

Angels Camp
Forks of Salmon
Paradise
Happy Camp
Cool
Burnt Ranch
Copperopolis
Nice
Hercules
Rough and Ready

[Flavin102]

16. Missouri is full of them

Peculiar, Tightwad, Licking, Huzzah, Enough.

The funniest is in very red Kansas: Liberal

[ailsagirl]

17. Welcome to DU, Flavin102!!

[GeorgeGist]

20. Climax, MI

[OxQQme]

21. WEED!

http://weedchamber.com/

[underpants]

24. Motto "Weed like to welcome you"

😆

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weed,_California

[lastlib]

26. Tightwad, MO.

Toad Suck
Peculiar
Cow Gill

[aeromanKC]

30. Tightwad Bank

People would set up a checking account with a minimum balance just to get a checkbook from this bank.

[lastlib]

34. The bank I worked for bought it!

I've driven by it many times!

[whathehell]

27. My husband grew up in Michigan near Hell

Yup, that's the name of the town.

[randr]

28. Egnar, Range in the rear view mirror

[aeromanKC]

29. Johnny Carson: "Fertile woman dies while in Climax"

Johnny Carson read this clip from a Minnesotan paper on his show. Both Fertile and Climax are small towns in North Western MN.

[Kajun Gal]

31. Louisiana has Gross Tete. Pronounced "tate" but.....

[TomSlick]

42. Now, now Kajun Gal,

ain't it Grosse Tete? The real name - probably translated as "big head" but could mean "fat head" - is funny enough.

[Kajun Gal]

45. Yeh, but I ain't known to be a good speller and didn't feel like googling!

[TomSlick]

47. Any time I'm driving I-10

I always stop in Grosse Tete for something. It's just a funny place name.

[ghostsinthemachine]

32. Negro Bar

In Folsom CA, a State Park. A move is afoot to change the name in these parts. I dont know.

[flibbitygiblets]

55. Used to visit there as a kid... thought it was just a racist joke

But no. Real name.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

33. Truth or Consequences, NM.

Originally named Hot Springs, it changed its name in 1950 so that the radio quiz show with that name would come to town and broadcast from there. Apparently, from what I read in Wikipedia, Ralph Edwards, the host of the show, came to town once a year for the next 50 years.

I sometimes wonder if residents have problems filling out forms that only allow so many spaces or characters for your town's name.

[MaryMagdaline]

35. Kissimmee

[mitch96]

103. First time I drove to Florida on I95

I bust out laughing when I saw an exit for PALATKA Florida.. To me it sounded like the sound a cow pie makes when it hits the ground... pa LAT kahhhhhh......
Prolly an old Indian name..
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[MaryMagdaline]

104. So true!

[dewsgirl]

36. Yeehaw Junction, Fl.

[enid602]

37. El Segundo

El Stinko, California

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

39. It only smells bad due to the JP6 from the airport

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

38. I promise these are real

King of Prussia, PA
Bulls Gap, TN
Alabama, NY
In my current state on New Jersey but not very close by is the pleasant sounding Shades of Death Road.

[Totally Tunsie]

40. My college roommate was from Horseheads, NY,

and my ex worked in the molybdenum mines in Climax, CO.

[SouthernIrish]

41. Tennessee has a few

Soddy Daisy
Chucky
Grinders Switch

Virginia has
Cracker's Neck

[Docreed2003]

84. Also in TN...Skullbone

[TomSlick]

43. Arkansas's entries:

Toad Suck Ferry
Possum Grape
Bald Knob
Pickle Gap
Weiner
Frog Town
Oil Trough
Flippin
Goobertown
Y City

[underpants]

48. There are two Frog Levels in Virginia

One just North of Richmond and another waaaay out in Tazwell County. That's probably a 6hour Drive from here.

I knew about the one in Caroline County because we passed it on the way to a Christmas tree farm at my old job.

There's also Tobaccoville Oilville and Rockville (lots of quarries there)

[GeoWilliam750]

44. Gnaw Bone, Indiana

[jmowreader]

46. To understand these you'll need to know a little pioneer history

About a mile east of Clarkia, Idaho, are two creeks. One is Two Bit Creek, the other is Flewsie (pronounced "floozy&quot Creek. In the days before Idaho was a state, there was a brothel right between them.

[underpants]

49. Lackey Va.

Half way between Yorktown and Williamsburg. Guess who lives there?
I worked with a bunch of guys from Lackey back in the late 80's.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

50. Heard of guy from Normal, Illinois who married someone from Plain, Wisconsin - nt

[Kath2]

51. Yes.

Boring, MD.

[radical noodle]

52. Indiana

Gnaw Bone
Pinhook
Popcorn
Floyds Knobs
French Lick
Santa Claus
Story
Beehunter

I'm sure there are others.

[Chipper Chat]

62. Also in indiana:

Saluda
Osgood
Chili
9 Mile
Gas City
Deedsville
Bramble
Correct
Frog town

[RockRaven]

54. Northern California has got a YOLO County

That used to not mean anything.

[flibbitygiblets]

56. Zig Zag and Boring, both in Oregon

[k8conant]

57. In West Virginia:

Odd, Hurricane, Paw Paw, Sam Black Church, Jane Lew, Pie, Booger Hole, Hoo Hoo, Looneyville, Brohard, Peewee, Cucumber, Left Hand, Burnt House, Lego, Sassafrass, Kitchen and Scrabble


In Virginia: Burnt Factory

[underpants]

61. Hurr ih Cahn

Have family there

Don't forget Poca - the high school mascot was The Dots.

[3catwoman3]

67. I could NOT live in...

...a town called Booger Hole. No way.

[jg10003]

58. Green Acres, Fl. (yes, just like the TV show)

[beveeheart]

59. Girdletree MD

[cloudbase]

60. Cut and Shoot, TX.

A little bit north of Houston.

[Danmel]

63. Here on long island we have many native American names for towns-it's the pronunciation that's funny

But first there's Hicksville.

Hauppauge-hop hog

Cutchougue cutch ogg

Copaigue- co pay gue

Speonk- spee-onk

And Ronkokoma

[3catwoman3]

66. My husband grew up in Hicksville.

So did Billy Joel.

[Ron Obvious]

69. Humptulips, WA

Always cracks me up.

Apparently, there's a town called Big Ugly (VA?), because I saw a wedding announcement once that said something like "Local Man Marries Big Ugly Girl".

[Polybius]

70. How about a street name?

There's a Lois Lane not far from me, and that's so awesome!

[Homer Wells]

72. Pickle Street, WV

Also, Big Ugly, WV

[oberliner]

73. Intercourse, PA

[llmart]

75. Hey, you stole my answer.

They have a gift shop there and some of the sayings on the souvenir t-shirts are pretty funny.

[oberliner]

78. Amish Country can be quite a trip!

[llmart]

80. Oh, yes it can.

I remember staying at a hotel that something just seemed creepy to me. Then later on I found out that it was a hotel that didn't serve liquor because it was affiliated with some religion, though I don't know which one. No wonder it felt weird to me.

[C_U_L8R]

76. Braintree, MA

What the heck is a braintree?

[Bradshaw3]

77. Bug Tussle, Oklahoma, hometown of House Speaker Carl Albert

And pugnacious bugs!

[eppur_se_muova]

92. There's a Bug Tussle in AL, as well as two other states. The Clampetts were from Bugtussle. nt

[Snellius]

79. Braintree Split is an intersection near Boston

[Cartoonist]

81. Two cities in Illinois

Joliet
Romeoville

[liberal N proud]

83. From when I lived in Missouri - Pumpkin Center

They always had a pumpkin stand in the fall and our girls always wanted pumpkins from Pumpkin Center

Mostly just an intersection now after the highway was widened

[royable]

86. One of the weirder place names I know of: Bodfish Intervale

It's a small valley north of Monson, Maine, and just north of Boarstone Mountain and a side route of the Appalachian Trail.

Then there's always Zzyzx, California. See the Wikipedia page for it.

[doc03]

87. Fly, Ohio nt

[Callmecrazy]

88. I lived in Pleasantville, NJ

[crazycatlady]

98. I grew up in Pleasantville, NY

ANd worked in the NJ town with the same name.

The high schools have different colors and mascots.

[Talitha]

90. Oh lordy, lordy, lordy...

Haven't laughed this hard in a LONG time...
THANKS!!!

[grantcart]

91. Athol, Idaho

[eppur_se_muova]

93. Pewee Valley, Kentucky

I thought "Peewee" meant little, and "Pewee" meant something stinks. Turns out a pewee is a bird. https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/eastern-wood-pewee

[7wo7rees]

95. Not near me, but WV has some doozies

Booger Hole
Hoo Hoo
Looneyville
Brohard (bro!)
Peewee
Cucumber
Left Hand
Lego
Sassafras
Kitchen
Scrabble
Hundred
Paw Paw
Big Ugly
Frazier's Bottom
Man
Rock
War
Pie
True
Odd

and my favorite

Nitro

[geralmar]

99. Sadly,

not in the U.S., but Newfoundland, Canada:

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[Talitha]

100. Ladies and Gentleman, we have a winner!!!!

[underpants]

107. Dildo Yard Sale!

[Callmecrazy]

101. Fucking, Austria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria

[samnsara]

102. most the names that cant be pronounce here in Wash State are Native American names..

..Puyallup...Wahkiacus...but the BEST one was a small town I drove thru in Tenn called Bucksnort! I stopped at a gas station ( the only thing there I think) and got Bucksnort, Tennessee coffee cups for everyone's Xmas gifts!

[cemaphonic]

105. Not near me (or anyone), but Pitcairn island has some colorful place names

like:
Where Dick Fell
John Catch a Cow
Bitey Bitey
Down the Hole
Oh Dear

[LeftInTX]

106. Woman Hollering Creek

The highlight between San Antonio and Houston

[area51]

108. Another interesting Texas town name,

Dime Box.