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Oct 31st, 2004 | 06:25 PM

#61

RufusTFirefly

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Maryland, USA, has an Accident and a Detour.

Oct 31st, 2004 | 10:57 PM

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chas

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

Nov 1st, 2004 | 01:15 AM

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twoflower

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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.

Nov 1st, 2004 | 02:50 AM

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SiobhanP

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

Nov 1st, 2004 | 04:50 AM

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David_London

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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

Nov 1st, 2004 | 05:22 AM

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kvadragon

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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.

Nov 1st, 2004 | 05:57 AM

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artstuff

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

Nov 1st, 2004 | 06:43 AM

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hansikday

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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.

Nov 4th, 2004 | 04:09 PM

#69

walkinaround

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cockermouth which is in cumbria, england

Nov 4th, 2004 | 04:51 PM

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thomthumb

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

Nov 4th, 2004 | 10:26 PM

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TripleSecDelay

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

Nov 5th, 2004 | 01:38 AM

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rex_skidmore

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Stikit, India

Mar 29th, 2005 | 06:23 AM

#73

trvlite2

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

Mar 29th, 2005 | 07:43 AM

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Wednesday

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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...

Mar 29th, 2005 | 07:52 AM

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GreenDragon

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Hoseasons Country Cottages in Britain,
Dyke Heads Cottage

Mar 29th, 2005 | 10:02 AM

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BigJohn

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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.

Mar 29th, 2005 | 10:20 AM

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GreenDragon

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

Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida

Mar 30th, 2005 | 12:52 PM

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VickiH

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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...