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mireaux7 Sep 3rd, 2007 03:46 AM

towns with weird names
 
If you know of any sized town/city that has a weird or unique name to it, let others know. (places of interest, lakes, etc count too!)

I have listed some that I have heard of:

Toad Suck Lake, close to Little Rock, AR

Burnt Corn, AL

Intercourse, AL

Slapout, OK

Smackover, AR

Truth or Consequences, NM

Big Ugly, WV

Spread Eagle, WI

Bumpass, VA

Satans Kingdom, VT

Mexican Hat, UT

Hoop and Holler, TX

Cut-and-Shoot, TX

Disco, TN

South of the Border, SC

Big Beaver, PA

Half.com, OR

Three Legs Town, OH

Cat Elbow Corner, NY

Ho-Ho Kus, NJ

Bala Cynwyd, PA

Gay Head, MA

Bad Axe, MI

Monkey's Eyebrow, KY

Howey-in-the-Hills, FL

..and my fav..

Bootlegger Crossing, AZ

ipod_robbie Sep 3rd, 2007 04:00 AM

When does school start back up again??


happytrailstoyou Sep 3rd, 2007 05:57 AM

Startup, WA

mumser Sep 3rd, 2007 06:01 AM

Belchertown, MA

P_M Sep 3rd, 2007 06:12 AM

Good reply, happytrails!! :-D

bleason Sep 3rd, 2007 07:03 AM

Muleshoe, TX close to Earth, TX

dmlove Sep 3rd, 2007 08:43 AM

Bird-in-Hand, PA

Bobmrg Sep 3rd, 2007 08:50 AM

Humptulips, WA

SamH Sep 3rd, 2007 08:52 AM

Hi Hat, KY

Dilles Bottom, OH

I've been to Bad Axe

SamH Sep 3rd, 2007 09:00 AM

Kentucky continues to ammuse:

Rabbit Hash, KY...check out their website... www.rabbithashusa.com

Big Bone Lick State Park also in KY

hop_along Sep 3rd, 2007 09:30 AM

Climax, Ga.

Ty Ty, Ga.

Dimebox, Tex.

Yeehaw Junction, Fla.

Ninety-Six, S.C. (The only place with a major-league ballplayer whose uniform number was his hometown.)

North, S.C. (I find this amusing in the manner of Abbott and Costello.)

Bug Tussle, Okla. (or is it Arkansas? Wherever the Beverly Hillbillies came from, and it is a real place.)

Sara Sep 3rd, 2007 09:36 AM

Hot Coffee, LA

Amy Sep 3rd, 2007 09:38 AM

I'm not quite sure why the Welsh name Bala Cynwyd would be considered "weird"; it's just a combination of two Welsh towns, one having to do with a lake, the other with a saint.

Now Blue Ball and Intercourse, PA...those are a bit odd.

trippinkpj Sep 3rd, 2007 09:43 AM

I've been to Beaver, UT. My son just had to have his picture taken by the "Entering Beaver" sign.

traveller69 Sep 3rd, 2007 11:45 AM

Piapot Saskatchewan

321go Sep 3rd, 2007 12:00 PM

Boring, OR

mireaux7 Sep 3rd, 2007 12:10 PM

Bala Cynwyd,.I dunno. it just sounds funny. sounds like the name of a 1980's heavy metal hairband.

mumser Sep 3rd, 2007 12:33 PM

Hell, MI

pollyvw Sep 3rd, 2007 01:08 PM

North Augusta, SC...realize that Augusta is in GA.

LLindaC Sep 3rd, 2007 01:53 PM

This is Austria, but it's real:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp

mrwunrfl Sep 3rd, 2007 02:36 PM

Zzyzx, California

mireaux7 Sep 4th, 2007 11:39 AM

north augusta, sc isnt so weird. many communities expand into neighboring states:

texarkana, ar/tx

kansas city, mo/ks

chicago, il/east chicago,in

marginal_margiela Sep 4th, 2007 12:01 PM

I live in Manayunk, PA, just a few miles from Bala Cynwyd. Bala Cynwyd smells, but it really isn't that weird.

kauai_aka Sep 4th, 2007 12:19 PM

truth or consequences, don't remember state. it was a pkg rcv'd from there.

cigalechanta Sep 4th, 2007 12:24 PM

Condom, France

nfldbeothuk Sep 4th, 2007 02:53 PM

Well, it's not the U.S. But since we've heard about Austria & France, my home province of Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) has:
Bareneed
Heart's Content
Seldom
Little Seldom (!)
Herring Neck
Joe Batt's Arm
Come-by-Chance
Too Good Arm
and, of course, (please don't visit & steal their sign--they've replaced it enough)
Dildo

starrsville Sep 4th, 2007 03:07 PM

Cumming and Climax in Georgia (two towns/ two names)

GBelle Sep 4th, 2007 04:02 PM

Blow Me Down, Newfoundland, Canada
Booger Holler, AR
Climax, MI
Crackpot, England
Cut and Shoot TX
Deadhorse, Alaska
Dead Woman Crossing, WY
Ding Dong, TX
Hell, MI
Hot Coffee, MS
Knockemstiff, OH
Lizard Lick, NC
Monkey's Elbow, KY
Weeping Mary, TX
Zigzag, OR

Looneyville, TX
Truth or Consequences, NM

kauai_aka Sep 4th, 2007 04:48 PM

To start up Joe Batts arm picked up his hot coffee and scratch his herring neck. He couldn’t figure out why there was such a hoop a holler over Bala Cynwyd. Drinking his coffee and scratching his gay head, he was still monkey eyebrowed over the big beaver spread eagled chick from Texarkana he met at disco. Knowing this was a come-by-chance he made a big tussle. With his bareneed to climax, he called his friend, Dil, “Do I bring a condom for intercourse?” Dil answered Joe, “Seldom, you bumpass idiot. She’s a big ugly toad sucks lake!”

Feeling like a burnt corn in a mexican hat, Joe decided he wasn’t going to live in satan’s kingdom tonight. It was humptulips in three legs town baby!

Back at the disco the following night, he turned to his friend Dil, “Do I smackover the big beaver?” “Go ahead, Joe” his friend said. So Joe turned to the big beaver with a hi hat, “Cut and shoot, hoho kus”. Before he could blink, she gave him cat elbow corner muleshoe south of the border. Getting up and feeling like hell, he said to Dil, “Do-od, she’s a bad axe, come on let’s go, this place is f#cking boring.”

Leaving the booger holler and looking like a deadhorse, there she was bird in hand. “My name is Bala Cynwyd.” She said. He offered his too good arm and to his heart’s content, he felt like a weeping mary.







There was just no way to be clean with you guys/gals…

happytrailstoyou Sep 5th, 2007 08:21 AM

French Lick, IN

thepeters Sep 5th, 2007 08:36 AM

Two Egg, FL (no, really! In the Panhandle...)

:-)


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