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What's the oddest/weirdest/most unusual place name you have ever encountered? I'll start......
There's a village in North Yorkshire called Blubberhouses....

Whore, Michigan.

Hell, Michigan.

there's a place near me called Cockermouth, that always makes me giggle (yes, I'm that immature)

there's a place near me called Cockermouth, that always makes me giggle (yes, I'm that immature)

I played rugby there....

Sandy Balls, near fordingbridge. It's a holiday centre I do believe...lmao

There's a place by my home called Itsa Creek....

That's not so ridiculous as it is just corny, though.

I played rugby there....
lucky you

There's a village in Scotland called Peover Superior - always struck me as an anti-authoritarian kind of statement.

Lake Titicaca...

That was funny when I was in middle school.. not so much anymore..

There's a place in Sweden called Trosa, which translates into "girl's underwear".

The weirdest name I've seen is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/index.php) in Wales.

Also, I drive through a village called Bunny everyday on my way to work. It's not as cute as it sounds.

Pratt's Bottom

There's a village in North Yorkshire called Blubberhouses....

Blubberhouses is up on the moors isn't it? I heard it came about because that's where they used to store all the whale fat - in big sheds along way from civilisation because it reeked so much. Now there's a village there.

Of course, I could have just made all that up...

Little Piddle and the river Piddle in Dorset always make me smile

Blubberhouses is up on the moors isn't it? I heard it came about because that's where they used to store all the whale fat - in big sheds along way from civilisation because it reeked so much. Now there's a village there.

Of course, I could have just made all that up...

even if you did make it up...it sounds good, well not the horrible thought of whale blubber and the nasty stinky smell...but the reason for the name

TAUMATA*WHAKA*TANGI*HANGA*KOAUAU*O*TAMATEA*TURIPUKAKA*PIKI*M
-AUNGA*HORO*NUKU*POKAI*WHENUA*KITANA*TAHU

A hill in New Zealand. This Maori name was in general use, but is now generally abbreviated to Taumata. The name means: the summit of the hill, where Tamatea, who is known as the land eater, slid down, climbed up and swallowed mountains, played on his nose flute to his loved one.

Whore, Michigan.

Hell, Michigan.

There's Hell in Yorkshire too

I know it aint a city or town but it always brings a smile to my face when i see it...there is this shop i know called european pina deli(its in australia), now in hungarian the word pina is slang for c-^%. Great salami too!

oh i got a bad one...there is this town i know called kurri kurri, which does have good curry, but can make you head for the dunny in a hurry...

Well, this one ain't so good, but there's a place in Devon called Cockington

Joe, Montana.

Noplace,County Durham,Newcastle

Sparrowpit

There's a place called Muff near (London)derry in Northern Ireland as well as Nobber in Donegal

Kansas City, Missouri. (USA)

Always good for a ??? from those not from around these parts.

Fucking, Austria... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria)

There's a list of other "unusual" place names in that entry. My personal favorite is Wank, Germany! :D

Fucking, Austria... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria)

There's a list of other "unusual" place names in that entry. My personal favorite is Wank, Germany! :D

I've heard that 'Fucking' has a huge problem with brit tourists stealing their road signs.

There's Hell in Yorkshire too


Is there a whore there too? =)

There's a footie team in Holland, I think, that plays at the Wankdorf Stadium. ho ho ho.

Blackbutt in Queensland Australia. Its a pretty contraversial name (as you can imagine) but has resisted all attempts to change it.

In our weather these places get mentioned
* Rabbit Flat
* Brunette Downs

I have no idea about the origin.

River Suck-Galway-Ireland
Hel-Poland

Bucksnort, Tennessee (USA)

Intercourse, Pennsylvania

Blue Ball - Ohio
Knockemstiff - Ohio

Cum Hag Wood

Butt Mound

Wet Wang

Cock Lick End

Ramsbottom

...and Big Bone Lick - A state park in Kentucky

Wet Wang


Defined in Douglas Adams' 'Meaning of Liff' as 'a moist penis' :D

Belgium.

In Newfoundland, there's a town by the name of Dildo.

In Sweden, we´ve got Fittja, Handen och Trosa (Pussie, (the) Hand, and Panties).
Now then, Fittja is to the north, Trosa to the south and Handen is in the middle. Handens slogan? "Between Pussie and Panties is (the) Hand".
How stupid is that!?
Also, there´s a place called "Loneliness", inhabitants: one family.
And all you Dutch people; there´s a place called "kloten". You know what I mean.

In Finland, there is among others Juntti (eng. redneck) and Onpahanvaanlampi (eng. itjustispond).
Oh yeah, there also seems to be a peak called Kusipää (d**khead).

Hell, Michigan.Darn. You beat me too it. :(
Has anyone mentioned Gun Barrel City, Texas yet?

I've heard that there's two villages near each other in Germany, one called Russia, the other America, but I can't find anything to back it up.

There's a footie team in Holland, I think, that plays at the Wankdorf Stadium. ho ho ho.

It's in Berne, Switzerland, and the club that plays there is called Young Boys FC! I know, it can't possibly be true...

http://www.stadiumguide.com/wankdorfold.htm

As for amusing place names;

Lord Hereford's Knob - A Hill in Wales

Sheepy Magna - Warwickshire

Indian Queens - Cornwall

Willey - Iowa

Ah, toilet humour! Such a relief from the day job.

Oh!Oh! There´s a national park in sweden called Vadvetjåkka(Whatdoesjåkkaknow), a town called France, another called Clit, Hallway and Wideswamp.

Wanaka in NZ works with an East End accent.

Diss in Norfolk (UK) is pretty good one too.

In Holland we have Sexbierum (bier = beer in English, I think the first and latter part are understandable :p )

Defined in Douglas Adams' 'Meaning of Liff' as 'a moist penis' :D

I KNEW that sounded familiar.

God I love that book. I want the second!

My apologies if i'm jumping the gun ....

Toadsuck, Arkansas

Zap, North Dakota

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Waaia.

Not a funny name, but how do you reckon you'd pronounce it?

Also, not a town, but a road in Tasmania: Spitfarm Rd.

I don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but there's a place in Georgia called Between. What makes it worse is that virtually no one has heard of it, so every time you mention it, someone asks "between what?"

I dont know if you count streets but theres one outside town called butts corner.

Little Dix Village (West Indies)
Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)

Mount Mee (Australia)
http://www.dribbleglass.com/Jokes/town-names.htm

BogHouses and Sheepwash in Northumberland.

there's a place near me called Cockermouth, that always makes me giggle (yes, I'm that immature)


we have a couple of towns in pa. all near each other(i think lancaster county) called....bird in hand,intercoarse,blueball and 2 others i cant remember off hand. ;) :D :)

we have a couple of towns in pa. all near each other(i think lancaster county) called....bird in hand,intercoarse,blueball and 2 others i cant remember off hand. ;) :D :) Well if we are going down that road, we have Longbenton (long bent one), and Wideopen.

I've run accross a few Japanese place names that are humourous to English speakers:

Nose, a suburb of Osaka. Especially funny is the dry cleaning shop "Nose Cleaning".

The region Osaka is in is named Kinki, pronounced exactly the same as kinky. Thus we have: Kinki University and the Kinki Love Hotel.

There actually exists a town in Kyushu called Usa. However, the urban legend that it was named Usa so that Japanese products could be labeled "Made in USA", is entierly false. (http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/usa.asp)
http://weblog.delacour.net/images/2003/10/971214_station-sign_usa_256.jpg

I lived in a village called Upton Snodsbury and my Grandfather lived in a village called Wyre Piddle.

There's also Smuts, Saskatchewan, and in Saskatoon there is a street named Rusholme Road and it intersects Avenue P, so the intersection is called the corner of Rusholme and P.

There's also Smuts, Saskatchewan, and in Saskatoon there is a street named Rusholme Road and it intersects Avenue P, so the intersection is called the corner of Rusholme and P. Now that I like!

I lived in a village called Upton Snodsbury and my Grandfather lived in a village called Wyre Piddle.
Yay! I've been to Wyre Piddle. There's a brewery there, I think.
A tube station in London called Cockfosters [/snigger]

While we're on the subject, the River Avon translates as River River (Avon being old something for river). Stupid Romans.

All of these are down Somerset way:
Upper, Middle and Lower Wallop
Chipping Sodbury
Hinton Blewitt
Street (they named it after the town's best feature...)

And a place in Leicestershire: Breedon on the Hill. Not really funny, unless you've studied Anglo-Saxon and Old English etymology, in which case you'd know that translates as 'Hill Hill on the Hill'.

My favorite for the Star Wars fans: Taunton and Wookie Hole.

we have a couple of towns in pa. all near each other(i think lancaster county) called....bird in hand,intercoarse,blueball and 2 others i cant remember off hand. ;) :D :)


Don't forget Paradise -- reachable by going through bird in hand or intercourse.
All of which, if I recall, you travel through on the Strausberg Railroad.

My personal favorite is Wank, Germany! :D
I've heard of that town. It's at the foot of "Mount Wank" and they have things there called "wankhaus".

Lizard Lick, North Carolina (I have a friend who is a genuine Lizard Licker)
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina (not so much weird as unpronounceable)

And a friend of mine who lived in Japan for a couple of years was enormously entertained to find a Japanese town whose name translated as "Short-Necked Clam Town". I guess you had to be there.

:p

Not sure if it´s a real town, but...

Sa(u)ron.

Ramsbottom
I used to know someone whos surname was Ramsbottom

Braintree outside of Boston
just freaks me out...a super intelligent tree.....maybe that eats people...;)

http://www.flashasylum.com/db/files/Comics/insurance.gif

I know some streets in Tsuen Wan of Hong Kong called

Tai Po Street
Yee Po Street
Sam Po Street

and, last but not least, Sei Po Street.

Literally they mean, Big (First) Slope St, Second Slope St...and you get the rest...

Why is it ridiculous? Because in Cantonese "Po" also mean breasts - the female kind. Heh.

River Suck

Yorkshire is the best part of the world for stupid place names. Stainland is a good one.

twaddleville

Here in Australia our less smart names start right next to Sydney's CBD.

Woolloomooloo. Then there's Woolloongabba in Brisbane(which is where the "Gabba" is).

Of course, then there's Mooball (somebody must have been on drugs...) up north...

Puinai

Belcher, NY

Baran-Duine

Baran-Duine

Which is called Brandywine by the locals? ^_^

My votes for most ironic place names in the U.S.:

Paradise, Nevada (it's in the middle of the desert) and Liberal, Kansas (the GOP is in firm control of the state)

Maggot's End. Trust the English...

in thetford in norfolk theres a place called two mile bottom.

"Fucking" in Austria & "Hell, Michigan"
Imagine you had to travel between the two...now that would make an interesting ticket: it would read "Fucking-Hell"

Back in my University days in Cardiff I used to walk past a Fanny Street - good for a cheap laugh I tell ya (similarly, when I would go visit some good friends in Splott)

Not to say Stoke-on-Trent where I'm currently taking my Postgraduate course has no interesting names: I live within eye contact of a factory reading (in HUGE CAPITALS) JONES & SHUFFLEBOTTOM

Greece has its fair share of silly location names as well: among the most popular skiing resorts is "Tria-Pente Pigadia" (translates as "Three-Five Wells")

Nothing beats supporting a football team with a totally embarrasing name, though - may I give my condolences to the fans of Deportivo Wanka in Peru.

For more interesting place names, check out this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interesting_or_unusual_place_names :p

Not to say Stoke-on-Trent where I'm currently taking my Postgraduate course has no interesting names: I live within eye contact of a factory reading (in HUGE CAPITALS) JONES & SHUFFLEBOTTOM



in norwich theres a 'BOB BASTARD CAR SALES' which is slightly amusing.

in norwich theres a 'BOB BASTARD CAR SALES' which is slightly amusing.

Nice one :P

Bringing to mind a funeral home back in my hometown of Salonica, Greece belonging to Baboulas Bros. - that would translate in English as "Boogeyman Bros. Funeral Home" Appropriate, eh?

Here in Australia our less smart names start right next to Sydney's CBD.

Woolloomooloo.

Does it have a university with a philosophy department?

Small village in Kent, UK, called Pratts Bottom

Nice one :P

Bringing to mind a funeral home back in my hometown of Salonica, Greece belonging to Baboulas Bros. - that would translate in English as "Boogeyman Bros. Funeral Home" Appropriate, eh?


oh thats brings me on to more norwich based hilarity-

'GEORGE BUSH FUNERAL HOME'

Bucksnort, TN

Kiln, MS (pronounced "Kill")

Hot Coffee, Mississippi.

Teton National Park, WY---French for "mammary glands"
Peculiar, Missouri
Tightwad, Missouri
Wahoo, Nebraska
Republican City, Nebraska---Best Named (Also the Republican River which runs nearly the length of Nebraska)

Nevada, Missouri
California, Missouri
Mexico, Missouri

Humpty Doo, Northern Territory Australia
Whakapapa, New Zealand (pronounced similar to fuck-a-papa)
Fannie Bay, NT, Aus
Humpybong, Queensland, Aus
Woody Point, Qld, Aus (might have to be sick mindd for that one)

And i believe there is a place in New South Wales called Yorkey's Knob

Humpty Doo, Northern Territory Australia
Whakapapa, New Zealand (pronounced similar to fuck-a-papa)
Fannie Bay, NT, Aus
Humpybong, Queensland, Aus
Woody Point, Qld, Aus (might have to be sick mindd for that one)

And i believe there is a place in New South Wales called Yorkey's Knob

Hahaha, these are great!

Hicksville in the US. It's a fairly common name for towns in the US.

Boot, Cumbria, Britain.
Ramsbottom, Lancashire, Britain.
Crook, County Durham, Britain.

There's a place called Muff near (London)derry in Northern Ireland as well as Nobber in Donegal

i thought nobber was in navan

oh ya,and something i found on my pc,although i know other people have mentioned it i feel a picture speaks a thousand words
Fucking,Austria (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/austria2.jpg)

Cape Disappointment, Newfoundland,
Moosefactory, Ontario
Medicine Hat, ALberta
Wawa, Ontario
Flin Flon, Manitoba


oh, and there's a company in the city where live with the dubious name of....(drumroll please)...Cumming Cockburn. Needless to say, the lark sign on it often gets vandalized (especially this time of year, with all the freshmen Uni students being sent on inititiation quests)

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobyllllantisilliochgogogoch.

North Wales town. Welsh people are inordinately proud of this being the longest single name place in the world. Welsh people don't tend to realise that it isn't an archaic remnant of historic times, but was invented by a Victorian train station master to pull in tourists.

Bless my countrymen.

i belive there is a place called Cockfosters

Of course:

Mule Shoe, Texas

Nags Head, North Carolina

Fuchs Creek (yep, rhymes with "sucks")

Hooker Road, in the town of Busti, New York - wouldn't it be funny if it was in the County of whore?

Better yet: Torpenhowe Hill. "Tor," "Pen," and "Howe" being, in the languages of various tribes/people who controlled (some parts of) England in olden days, the word for "hill." Thus, it is "Hillhillhill Hill."
Another similar case was the German-conquered Jaurakkajärviozerosee in Finland. Now, the Sámi (the aboriginals) found a lake, and Sámi for "lake" is Jávri, so that was the name. Finns, taking over the territory, Finnicized the name to Jaurakka "small Jauri". To disambiguate, it was called Jaurakkajärvi, järvi being a Sámi loan from the same jávri. In WW2, the Russians invaded the territory - Jaurakkajärviozero - and then the Germans invaded it back - Jaurakkajärviozerosee. The proper English name for this is obviously Lake Jaurakkajärviozerosee, Lake Lakelakelakelake.

and also:

Twatt, Orkney Islands. What a hoot.

Shafter, California
Goosepimple Junction, Virginia
Big Ugly, West Virginia

All in Lincolnshire

Bag Enderby
Mavis Enderby
Muckton Bottom
Ashby Cum Fenby
Wroot
Thompson's Bottom

and There is a Tomb stone in Fotherby with the Name of Fanny Fiddler

I was on vacation once and we stayed over night at a place called 'Pin Point'

There's also a place here in Australia called 'LiverPool', that's just a bit weird for me