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This story made me laugh

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7338151.stm

Whenever I passed that sign I would be sorely tempted to change it, but I can really see why some people want it changing

Does anyone else live near a place with a rude/daft name?

As a corollary, popular surname in HK is Fok. A popular English name is Joanna, and most Chinese will have an English name to go alongside their Chinese name - in return, I have a Chinese name to go along with my English name.

Having said that...

"Hi, what's your name?"

"Joanna Fok?"

"Skip the formalities why don't you?"

One of the stops on a bus I used to ride back in Berlin... some small kids reinterpreted it to mean "Bitte Straße" (please street), which I found funny, because "Bitscher Straße" sounds like something rather different to me.

Grand Canal Dock.


Doesn't sound too dirty, but drop the c and change the d to a c and now read it.

There are numerous holiday snaps taken in the villages of "Wank" and "Titz"

They are real places and so there inclusion in this post is purely for artistic reasons...and not because they make me giggle.

I also recieved a letter from a housing office that had the nameblock of:

Maj W. Anker

what must his parents of been thinking when they did that??

Perhaps not everyone has read this:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/17/a-town-called-fuckin.html
Oh and in southern Poland in the XIX century there totaly were villages Burdel (bordello) and Pierdolowka (Fuckville) renamed so by the sons of a biggest landowner in the vicinity who were frequently visiting the local ladies.

I'm quite fond of Muff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muff%2C_County_Donegal) in Donegal.

There's a village in Yorkshire called Penistone

I live in North Carolina (US) and there are several interesting placenames here, like "Climax," "Big Lick," and "Horneytown." You can read the entire list of odd names, and some interesting ones from Norway, here (http://poor-blogger.blogspot.com/2007/10/norwegian-placenames.html).

Wetwang always makes me smile.

Wetwang always makes me smile.

There was a chap called Rambhutan
Who came from a place called Wetwang
Which was really quite apt
Since he constantly fapped
You really should not shake his hand

There was a chap called Rambhutan
Who came from a place called Wetwang
Which was really quite apt
Since he constantly fapped
You really should not shake his hand

:)

Not rude, but Hell in Norway is certainly an excellent name, even though the locals would pronounce it differently to what an Anglophone would think.

Not rude, but Hell in Norway is certainly an excellent name, even though the locals would pronounce it differently to what an Anglophone would think.it's pronounced 'Bob' isn't it?:p

Not rude, but Hell in Norway is certainly an excellent name, even though the locals would pronounce it differently to what an Anglophone would think.So what about Hell in Michigan? Is that pronounced differently as well? :p

So what about Hell in Michigan? Is that pronounced differently as well? :p

Yeah, but, Hell in Norway freezes over more regularly :p

French Lick Indiana. Larry Bird's home town.

There's a "Fuk Man" street here in HK. Never been tempted to go to the public toilets there.
Also a "Tong Fuk" which sounds much more appealing. Even has it's own school. Lord knows what they teach there!

Also a "Tong Fuk" which sounds much more appealing. Even has it's own school. Lord knows what they teach there!French.

So what about Hell in Michigan? Is that pronounced differently as well? :p

Nope, it's still pronounced Hell. They have great ice cream though.

French Lick Indiana. Larry Bird's home town.

I wanna live there!!

I wanna live there!!

Been there several times. They have a casino now. Not much to the town.

Map (http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&q=French+Lick,+IN,+USA&um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title)

Not rude, but Hell in Norway is certainly an excellent name, even though the locals would pronounce it differently to what an Anglophone would think.

My brother was almost pastor of "Devil's Pond Baptist Church" in Devil's Pond, SC.

there's a summit somewhere in the west country called Brown Willy.

Pratt's Bottom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt%27s_Bottom).

Phuket, Thailand.

So what about Hell in Michigan? Is that pronounced differently as well? :p

Hayull yeah!

Pennsylvania has an Amish town called "Intercourse", don't know what they were thinking either.

Nope, it's still pronounced Hell. They have great ice cream though.

Lemme guess. Scooped by guys who look like Leif Garrett.

Anywho, there's a state park-type place in Kentucky off I-71 called Big Bone Lick.

There's a village in Britain called C'ocks
And a street called Tit'ty H'o,
Another street called F'anny H'o,
And Asshouse lane.

The Arrogant Worms, from the album Russell's Shorts have got this topic covered, at least for Newfoundland. Witness:

A Night on Dildo

Umm, so this is a song about newfoundland and we wrote it about the place names and all you have to know is that all the place names in this song are real place names that we found in an atlas,
E we can read!
Yeah, we can read!
Yeah, literacy!

Oh newfoundland, oh newfoundland, ya island in the sea
I love you oh so very much, I joined the ministry
To show you people 'round the rock when tourist season's here
Although in my opinion it' s a gem throughout the year
Well if you're one for swimming, don't think it's outta reach
You can go and take a dip along groswater beach
I know the name's misleading, that's quite a problem here
Instead let's go to goobies and have ourselves a beer

From woody point to come-by-chance to good ol' ferryland
Come take a look at gander, blackhead's mighty grand
Don't let the names deceive you, newfoundland's mighty fine
So spend a night on dildo if you think you've got the time

Well you can go to blow-me-down before it gets too dark (gasp)
Oh sorry ma'am, I should have said, that's our provincial park
There's also whippet harbour, or maybe butter pot
Or maybe I'll just hit the pub I'm feeling like a shot
Well you can sail on quidi vidi, or look at joe batt's arm
There's placentia and there's cow head (mooo!), they're so full of charm
Get married down in kilbride, have a party in hate bay
Or have some screech in fogo and forget about the day

From woody point to come-by-chance to good ol' ferryland
Come take a look at gander, blackhead's mighty grand
Don't let the names deceive you, newfoundland's mighty fine
So spend a night on dildo if you think you've got the time
Okay, the drinkin' verse

*sing drunkenly here*

From woody point to come-by-chance to good ol' ferryland
Come take a look at gander, blackhead's mighty grand
Don't let the names deceive you, newfoundland's mighty fine
So spend a night on dildo if you think you've got the time
So spend a night on dildo if you think you've got the time
So spend a night on dildo if you think you've got the time
Cod!

Unbeatable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking%2C_Austria

So what about Hell in Michigan? Is that pronounced differently as well? :p

Nope. I've been there too, not too impressive, though they do have some interesting shirts. I'd think the name would get old there really fast.

there is a somewhat back and unimproved road, or was at the time, going to three more or less ghost town type places, their sequence on the sign made rather interesting:

you bet
red dog
cammel's hump

of course we've got nothing like greater snoring and giggleswic

but also in the same general part of the world as red dog, et al, we've got a town actually called rough and ready, and quite a number of other places with interesting names, like hambone, grizzely flat and pesky deer road.

we've also got secret town, actual name of a place, if not actually a town there, midas, magra, an actual general store and postoffice, which i guess makes it officially a town called cleo.

nothing particularly scatalogical i can think of off hand, but a number quite fairly colorful.

our auburn, the one in northern california, which is of course where i'm speaking of, was once called flat rock, although before that its indiginous inhabitants may have called the area holocsu.

we've got a nevada city, which is in nevada county, which is in california, not the state of nevada, which well, nevada has a pioche, pinocca, and a caliente, among other things.

oh come to think of it, we have several putah creeks. though these are actual minor water courses rather then towns.

we have a downeyville, which sort of makes me think of feather mattrices.

there's even an aden, oh and we've got a paradise too. there's a brown's valley and several olinghouses. one norhwest of nevada city, which indiginously was called wakadok. dokdok meaning the wild blackberries that grow throughout the regeon up to about that elevation.

there's bound to be many other interesting, if not exactly 'rude' ones not on my mind at the moment. the whole are is full of towns with such sorts of names.

=^^=
.../\...

Here in Michigan we also have the Rosy Mound dunes, Rosy Mound natural area, Rosy Mound elementary school even. The name just sounds like some sort of euphemism from a romance novel.

Iron Knob in Australia
Little Dik Valley in Jamaica
Slut somewhere in Europe

On a ridiculous, senstationalised "current affairs" program tonight their was a segment on "Bogan St".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_sign_theft

Lots of good ones in this article.

I just remembered another one. This is actually a person's name, not place.
The woman who sold me my cellphone is called "Fuk Ng".

I just remembered another one. This is actually a person's name, not place.
The woman who sold me my cellphone is called "Fuk Ng".

That's nothing, my classmate's name was actually "Pearl Long Ngoc". I bet it's been made fun of even before the guy was born.

I don't know if this would apply as a rude name, but it certainly is silly. In Asturias there's a little town many locals call El Moro (http://www.mispueblos.es/asturias/asturias/el_moro/), which translates as "The Moor". In Spain, even now, after more than 1,500+ years of the Moors being out of the Iberian Peninsula, to be considered a Moor, is very bad.:p

Tittybong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tittybong) & Rooty Hill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooty_Hill) (root is Australian slang for fuck) here in Aus have always made me giggle.

For charming silliness, I like Matching Tye (http://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/Council_Services/planning/conservation/MATCHINGTYE.asp) in England.

Fanny Hands Lane
Muckton Bottom
Folkingham( for the way its pronounced in Dialect)

Unbeatable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking%2C_Austria

Beaten only by the sign encountered when leaving town: http://u1.ipernity.com/u/3/0D/72/881165.bbf71b0c1.l.jpg

I'm also partial to Hell, Grand Cayman because it sort of looks the part.

Let's not all forget the famous Lake Titicaca.

i live near a small town called tidioute... which doesn't look bad but is pronounced like a vulgar name for an suv designed to appeal to women

i live near a small town called tidioute... which doesn't look bad but is pronounced like a vulgar name for an suv designed to appeal to women

Ok, what? :confused: Maybe it's the fact that I'm suffering from insomnia at the moment and didn't get any sleep last night but could you vague that up for me a little more? Someone (who's not me) might actually understand what you just said and get offended. :-p

Actually there is a town just south of Fucking in Germany called Petting. Most men don't stay long in Petting and go straight on to Fucking.

Belgium.

End of thread.

Lizard Lick, NC
Climax, NC
Intercourse, PA
Cherry Hill NJ
Sussex and Essex, NJ

It's pretty common knowledge that's there's a town in Austria called Fucking.

Sussex and Essex, NJ

And Middlesex!

Fucking, Austria

I heard there was a town in Austria called Fucking.