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RufusTFirefly Oct 31st, 2004 06:25 PM

Maryland, USA, has an Accident and a Detour.

chas Oct 31st, 2004 10:57 PM

How about Bonkle, near Glasgow and also Ae near Dumfries (don't know how you pronounce that one!)

twoflower Nov 1st, 2004 01:15 AM

Australia also has a Woodenbong.

I worked in a place once where 2 guys job-shared whose names were Dave Allcock and Jim Balls. Didn't do to mention them by surname only, in the same sentence.

SiobhanP Nov 1st, 2004 02:50 AM

So far Termonfeckin is my favourite in Ireland. Would love to say i lived there (Don't really want to) just for peoples reaction :-)

David_London Nov 1st, 2004 04:50 AM

Unfortunately this site only works for the UK but these, apparently, are the closest ones to where I live in London
Enter your postcode. Get rude place names near it.
http://places.jump-around.com/closest/

Mincing Lane
Cock Pond
Pratt's Bottom
Titsey Park
Tyttenhanger
Thong
Minges
Claggy Cott
Nasty
Herbert's Hole

kvadragon Nov 1st, 2004 05:22 AM

It should be Blue Ball, PA (not Blueballs)...there seems to be a tad more decorum in the former!

Nearby to Blue Ball there is a town called Bird-in-Hand (PA). These are both Pennsylvania Dutch names.

artstuff Nov 1st, 2004 05:57 AM

And down the road from Blue Ball and Bird-in-Hand is Intercourse. :)>-

hansikday Nov 1st, 2004 06:43 AM

artstuff, does your mom know you are playing on the computer?

You seem to have an unhealthy and immature fixation with this stuff.

Your slam on the other post about
so many worldly travelers not being able to answer your bizare austria question was very silly.

walkinaround Nov 4th, 2004 04:09 PM

cockermouth which is in cumbria, england

thomthumb Nov 4th, 2004 04:51 PM

Lake Chaugagaugmanchaugagaugchabungagungamaug. It's in MA. It means "I fish on my side, you fish on your side, and nobody fishes in the middle"

TripleSecDelay Nov 4th, 2004 10:26 PM

In Michigan, there is a chain of banks called the "5th 3rd Bank". Is this a place you entrust with your money?

rex_skidmore Nov 5th, 2004 01:38 AM

Stikit, India

trvlite2 Mar 29th, 2005 06:23 AM

Funniest darn thing -- we were just in Chicago last weekend and walked by the Fifth Third Bank. Very strange name, I thought.

Wednesday Mar 29th, 2005 07:43 AM

not a place but I had a customer call me yesterday with the last name LICKDYKE. I asked her to verify the name, I just couldn't...

GreenDragon Mar 29th, 2005 07:52 AM

Hoseasons Country Cottages in Britain,
Dyke Heads Cottage

BigJohn Mar 29th, 2005 10:02 AM

Since this has re-surfaced, I'll add Ducktown and Turtletown in southeastern Tennessee: both are not far from Copper Hill. My spouse was born in Ducktown, near the copper mines. Quite a place.


GreenDragon Mar 29th, 2005 10:20 AM

Almost forgot a place I pass every time I drive from Gainesville (my home) to Orlando...

Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida

VickiH Mar 30th, 2005 12:52 PM

not silly as in "rude", maybe, but cornwall has some odd ones - 'flushing' and 'come-to-good', both near truro i think.

and thinking about it 'tooting' in south london is pretty silly...

Samsaf Mar 30th, 2005 02:32 PM

Has this one been mentioned -- Hole-In-The-Wall, Tennessee? (Middle Tennessee near Kentucky border)

Patrick Mar 30th, 2005 02:39 PM

Wednesday wins!!!


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