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Albuquerque

― Graham, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

COCKFOSTERS!

― Dan Perry, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And Eritrea and Azerbaijan.

― Graham, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Timbuktoo

― Madchen, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wonder if there's anywhere in the world called Jumping Frog?

OK, serious answer. Appledore.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn. I have no idea how you pronounce it.

― Michael Bourke, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surbiton - sounds like the suburbs of the future, when it's only another grey smudge in South London.

But, I've always wanted to live somewhere with a functional, abbreviated name:
NoHo - North Hollywood, or the wilderness north of Soho in London

SoMa - South of Market, San Francisco

SoWeTo - South West Township.

― K-reg, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

― fritz, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also, Lake Titticaca.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan is a walking Freudian analysis.

[Cue Dan -- 'ANAL-ysis?']

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

STOP STEALING MY LINES, RAGGETT.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Has to be Wetwang in the east riding of Yorkshire.

In the local area we have A Constable Burton, Bishop Monkton and a Patrick Brompton.
A few miles from us is Thornton le Beans which is Bill Bryson's favourite place name.

― Billy Dods, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Signs to Wetwang always used to amuse me when I lived nearby.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Technoctitlan (spelling probably off)

― maria, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there are many UK village names that are amusing. such as:

Pratt's Bottom

Six Mile Bottom

Matching Tye

Crackpot

Lower Babraham

Much Hadham

there's probably many others. i think that matching tye is my favourite out of those ones though.

― katie, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Portrush.

― stevo, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wigwig and Homer!!

― mark s, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lasagna Gultch Shopping Center

― jason, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oola.

― Michael Bourke, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also: Wabznasm (sp?) and Manford-Thirtysixborough, not AFAIK genuine village names, but from the "Everything is alright, it's OK, it's *fine*" emergency film (shot roughly in the style of an 80s / early 90s "patriotic" Tory Party Political Broadcast) in The Day Today.

Beaming in from the south-west: Piddletrenthide, Gussage All Saints.

Pretty from the south-east: Lamberhurst, Harrietsham.

The north-west's finest: Ashton-under-Lyne.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

N.E.England rules this thread. Xamplez within a 20 mile radius of where I sit & type:

Two Ball Lonnen

Quaking Houses

Spital Tongues

Stony Heap

Beat that.

xoxo

― Norman Fay, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Truth or Consequences, NM.

Bump, OR.

Bend, OR.

Berlin, CT. (It's not bur-LIN, it's BUR-lin. Huzzah.)

And, of course, Smallville, IN.

― David Raposa, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like Indian names for states and rivers, like Massachusetts, Susquehanna and Onondaga. They seem more like what words ought to be.

― Maria, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Arthur Kill Rd.

― Arthur, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Beat that.

Is that in New Hampshire?

― Dan Perry, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Heavens no, Dan, that's in Vermont. You're thinking of the sister town, Rub This.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DaN P. SeZ:

Beat that.

Is that in New Hampshire?

NNNnnnngggg.....

― Norman Fay, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

....Arrrg groan etc

I just remembered this interenting (well, I thought so, anyway) factlet that I saw on TV years ago, abt place names in N America. It referred to the opening of long-distance railways in either the US or Canada (it was on a long time ago, so I can't quite remember) Apparently towns built along the route of certain railways were named alphabetically -albany, belmont, cawthorn etc etc. Supposedly to this day, along certain stretches of track (or where track once was) the alphabetical naming still persists, tho' w/the odd gap where a town has failed. Absolutely of no concievable use, this knowledge, but somehow interesting and poignant (the missing alphabet letters, that is) IMO.

Anything in yr library referring to that, Ned, or web links, anyone?

xoxo

― NorMaNFaY, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NNNnnnngggg

Blimey. First one without vowels.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

interenting? -=INTERESTING=- gaaaah etc

― HE WHO TYPO-ES, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Those dodgy European ones:
Wankdorf in Germany. Surely everyone knows this one? (The Wank is Germany's 2nd highest mountain I kid you not.)
Apparently there's a place called Pervyshagg in Russia. (It was pronounced that way, not sure on the spelling).
Yes, and in the area of Piddletrenthide there are many villages with 'piddle' in their names.

― Bill, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Beaver Creek. Sorry.

― Trevor, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry, I'm partial to the highly imaginative "Upper Slaughter" and "Lower Slaughter" of the Cotswolds.

Though travelling from Manchester to Sheffield, we did get three cars of Americans giggling over Peniston.

― kate, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is there a town called Me? Cos I've been to Paradise (Pennsylvania)

― Madchen, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Twat.

(small isle N. of Scotland)

― DavidM, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Side road right by me is called 'Happy Land West'. Which ain't bad!

(actually, I think Twat is the name of a town in an isle N. of Scotland)

― DavidM, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lisha Kill

― Pennysong Hanle y, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Non-Stick Frying Pan.

― emil.y, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lisha Kill! Hah! I love upstate NY old Dutch place names. Catskill is just so great. I love my mum's address, it's so violent - we shall KILL those dirty KRUMS and SLING them from our LANDS!!!

― kate, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And there's the River Piddle. I'm pretty sure it was "Piddletown" and "Tolpiddle" until they became Puddletown and Tolpuddle to spare the embarrassment of one particular king (maybe George III) who was visiting the area. So it is only this that saved history from a vital foundation stone of the Labour / trade union movement having an incredibly embarrassing sniggery name rather than a quite pretty one.

Isn't there somewhere else in the north-east called Wide Open?

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, there is, as well as Tow Law (yr guess is as good as mine) Esh Winning, and (near esh winning) Quebec - a hamlet ov abt 5 houses.

― nfaY, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Byrsons book on the American Language has a whole chapter on fucked up place names. Its a comic masterpiece .

― anthony, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Where upstate does your mom live, Kate? I am curious about my proximity.

― Maria, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi Kate you botard. What about Valatie ( vuh lay sha). Or Lebanon Valley.

― Pennysong Hanle y, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

buttfucke, montana

― Geoff, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Minnesota: good for silly names.

Brainerd, MN (no brains, no nerds). My mother's house backs on to Minnehaha Creek. St Paul has Cretin High School.

and aND AND! I cannot believe the lack of mention for...

INTERCOURSE, Pennsylvania.

― suzy, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tow Law, Esh Winning and Wideopen all very real. In deepest darkest county Durham in the heart of the old coal mining industries, parts of which are close to Tony Blairs constituency. They're about as different from Tuscany as you could probably get.

Esh Winning is just a few miles from Langley Park which featured on a Prefab Sprout LP.

― Billy Dods, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nagorno-Karabakh

― dave q, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"And there's the River Piddle. I'm pretty sure it was "Piddletown" and "Tolpiddle"" I live near villages called Wyre Piddle and Upper Piddle, which caused much merriment when I was a youngster.
Now though, I find very little amuses me.

― DavidM, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the names:

Toronto
Acton

― jel, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike, go sniff some glue out back behind the woodshop with the other botards.

Maria, my mum lives just West of Albany.

― kate, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a tiny rural hamlet in Holland called 'Hell'. I once spent a hazy summer's afternoon with a friend trying to locate it. After much map searching, and asking alarmed looking locals for directions, we finally found it. A small idyllic looking collection of farm houses one of which doubled up as a guest-house. Holiday in Hell anyone?

― stevo, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

According to some sources, Bay Shore (my home) was called Sodom for a brief moment in the 19th Century.

― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ever been to Pinvin, David?

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a Hell in Michigan, too! I've been there, and sent postcards to my whole family saying "Well ya all thought I was goin' to Hell... well, now I'm finally here!"

― kate, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

St Louis Du Ha! Ha!

For real, see proof...

Picture taken two weeks ago in Quebec.

― Kim, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh, sorry... they must have just started blocking pictures. Used to work. :(

― Kim, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Suzy, I have a dog-eared copy of the Intercourse News somewhere at home. I went to Intercourse and then on to Paradise (they're neighbouring villages) - don't know why I mentioned one and not the other.

To the smut list I add Brest in France and to the non-dirty, Pity Me in County Durham (I think) - the name is thought to be a derivation of Petit Mer.

― Madchen, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've always giggled like a little kid whenever I see the signs for "Crested Butte", but another favorite of mine is Gallup, New Mexico. I used to eat blue corn oatmeal there.

― Mandee Wright, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ouagadougou- capital of Burkina Faso

― ian, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've always liked how so many of Philadelphia's suburbs have Welsh names or are named after places in Wales (Bala Cynwyd, Haverford, Elwyn, Moylan, Gwynedd Valley, Ambler, Penllyn). Someone else has mentioned Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Then there's also Jim Thorpe, PA. Pennsylvania is chockful of oddball town names.

I've also always been partial Bydgoszcz (a city in Poland), Brno (in the Czech Republic), Ticklenaked Pond (in Vermont), and that old standby Lake Titicaca.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the name Pasadena. Is it nice there?

― rainy, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Megalopolis. First ever really ambitious city-naming, i.e. it translates roughly as "fucking enormous city". Also sounds cool and futuristic despite being built in the 4th century BC.

And I'm partial to Ur. Start minimal, always a good idea.

― Tom, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hammerfest, Norway.

You just can't get any cooler than that!

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I also forgot to mention a vital point, that the exclamation marks in 'St Louis Du Ha! Ha!' are NOT an embellishment.

Ardbeg is another oddball favourite.

Prettiest is Los Angeles.

― Kim, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's an air force base called Moron in Southern Spain according to today's Guardian.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't believe that Robin didn't mention Shitterton. I think Westward ho! has a little charm to it too.

― cabbage, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nork (Nork related fact: in my bedroom, I have a massive A-Z map of London and my idiot brother and his lovely wife and I used to spend ages looking for places with funny names. Nork won)

I liked the thing about Surbiton sounding futuristic. Surbitron?

― jamesmichaelward, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

in new jersey:
creme ridge
mount holly
fresh kills
ong's hat
egg harbor
mahwah
ho-ho-kus
rancocas woods
shellpile
cheesequake
zarephath

― your null fame, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Spuyten Duyvil, a section of Riverdale in the Bronx.

― Benjamin, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It means "Spitting Devil" in old Dutch, which makes it even better. Because it's right by Hells Gate, the most tretcherous body of water in NYC (where the East River, Hudson River and Long Island Sound meet). Sorry I know so much about it, my ex's band used to be on a label named after it.

― kate, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

not East River Pipe? i'm afraid i don't know any other bands on that label.

― gareth, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jim Thorpe? Named after the great pre-WW1 pent/dec-athlete?

There's a Ha-Ha Road on the Woolwich/Plumstead border.

I've always like Uttoxeter.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We'd always pass by BUCKSNORT Texas on the way to my grandparents' place in Fort Worth.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

East River Pipe are on Spuyten Duyvil?!? Good god, when they turn into a real label? Erm... no. You've never heard of the band, they were a fairly crap 60s garage/psych outfit called the Half Wits, I mean, the Half Breeds. (I think the Half Wits would be a much better name for a 60s garage punk band, don't you?)

― kate, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So have I, Mike. But it isn't my favourite National Hunt racecourse place name. That'd be Wincanton or Cartmel.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

There's a town in the Czech Republic called Pistov. I think that would get my vote.

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of my favourites have been taken already (incidentally, to settle discussion upthread, it's Twatt, and it's on Orkney), but no-one has mentioned Rest and Be Thankful which is halfway up the West Highland Way.

I also like really Scottish sounding placenames like Acharacle and Ballachulish.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Westward Ho!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

In Wisconsin, I like Oconomowoc and Wauwatosa. And Kinnickinnick, which is a street.
I also love Florala, Alabama. It's fun to say.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always wanted to visit Scrabster in Wick - the name fascinates me. Can't say the same about Nasty though, a village in England.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Zeal Monachorum

Piddle Trenthyde (sp?)

I have a soft spot for Budleigh Salterton

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Scrabster isn't in Wick. It's just outside Thurso. It's got nothing but a ferry terminal and a "lovely" view of Dounreay.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

penge

― tom carter (tomc), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only been up as far as Skye. My geography ends there. But i still want to meet a Scrab.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.kolumbus.fi/tommi.oksanen/fos99/img/hi-res/scrabster.jpg

It's horrible (my brother used to live in Thurso)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that the best postcard you could find? Don't diss Thurso.

Oh yeah! Diss.

And Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantisiliogogogoch. (From memory!)

Welsh place-names in Pennsylvania, huh? Funny, we've got Pennsylvania ones in Wales too.

In my area there's a Jacob's Ladder (a very steep grassy hill) which leads up to Paddy's Well, and a Shaunie's Pond. As a child I often wondered if Paddy and Shaunie knew each other, and whether they invited Jacob to their parties.

A couple of Valleys over, there's a Cape of Scotland. Puzzled me for some time till I found out it was an anglicisation of the Welsh "Cae Pysgotlyn", meaning "Field of the Fishpond". Kind of prosaic, but Cape of Scotland is nice.

― Dorien Thomas (Dorien Thomas), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

people giggle when i say i'm from kalamazoo.

another juvenile-funny place near detroit is big beaver road. which is exit 69. har har har.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

moose factory, ontario

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

High school football games against the Beavers of Beaver Dam were usually massively entertaining. But I don't think anything can beat Moose Factory.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

What, no love for Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, Alberta? Or Dildo, Newfoundland?

― sean c via cell, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, is Moose Factory a joke?

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Woolloloomoo in Australia.

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

yes¡ in nsw¡

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

New Invention (somewhere near Birmingham)
Mavis Enderby (a village in Lincolnshire)
Theddlethorpe All Saints (ditto)
Roseberry Topping (a hill in North Yorkshire)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a particularly place in my heart for Foul Ness.

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, that reminds me of another two: the promontaries either side of the mouth of the Humber. Spurn Head and Donna Nook.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Spurn Head just sounds dirty. As does the Hern Head in NYC.

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Show Low, Arizona--named due to gambling.
There's also a Bucksnort, TN, where my mom got stuck once due to car trouble.
Loveland, Colorado.
Braintree, MA--I always picture this literally.
The town on Cape Cod where I used to live: East Sandwich.
and of course Texarkana, my ancestral home.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

spurn head is unbelievably bleak, we did a geography field trp to there.

I also like Whatstandwell

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Chorton-cum-Hardy
Gayhurst
Hamel Hampstead
Leighton Buzzard
Bushey

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

and Shaggie Burn that is west of Perth

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Condom, in France is always guaranteed to make little anglophones snigger.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Shepherd's Bush. Sorry.

― syntaxfree, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

uh, no it's not

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Puducah

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

probably Bratislava

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Ponsonby,
also Foulridge
Many of you are to be found in these locatiaaaaaaaaaaannssss

― zenome kistachion, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Chelsea, of course....

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Adamant, Vermont, which is pronounced as: Adam Ant. It's a ways up the road (truthfully) from Ticklenaked Pond.

In Manchester, NH, there's a Come Street.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Somewhere in australia theres a place called Woodenbong.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 April 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Splott

― mei (mei), Thursday, 8 April 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I was at a junior hockey game, and they announced the results from around the league.. Red Deer 3 > Moose Jaw 2 made me so happy.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 8 April 2004 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Names of some villages and hamlets south of Auxerre in Burgundy, France:

Orgy, Merry, Misery, Anus, Fancy, Fly, Riot, Gland and Pisy.

I had to check this for a journlist once. I'd forgotten all about it until I was on holday there and we found ourselves driving through Anus.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Hummuli

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Meat Camp, North Carolina

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

New Zealand
and
Aukland

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

COCKFOSTERS!

Last time I was in London, a friend and I made a series of rude, entirely drunken remarks on the Tube about getting one's Cockfosters in another's Mudchute. Oh how we laughed.o

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Djibouti

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

George, WA
Snow Shoe, PA
What Cheer, IA

― mike a, Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Phuket, Thailand

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 29 April 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Eupora, MS

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 29 April 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Though travelling from Manchester to Sheffield, we did get three cars of Americans giggling over Peniston.

Did America Online give them the same hassle they made over Scunthorpe?

In the meantime, in Northern Virginia there's Backlick Road. And how have we gotten this far without French Lick, IN?

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 29 April 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Short Pump, VA.

― Richmond, Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Elephant Butte, NM

― Verbalish, Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Can we do streets?
Salubrious Passage, Swansea.

― Dorien Thomas (Dorien Thomas), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

bnw!!!! that is where i have a lot of family!!!! for reals that is so wild that you even know where that is!!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

arcadia

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The highlight of any visit to my Arkansas relatives is passing through Cooter, Missouri.

― briania, Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Foggy Bottom, DC

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Difficult, TN is a classic.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Midwest division:

Liberal, KS
Normal, IL

― mike a, Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Eupora Mississippi?! God knows I did my time hotfooting through there on my many Starkville <-> Oxford trips.

others: Bucksnort, TN & Turkey Scratch, AK.

― Will (will), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

oh! Turkeytown and Turtletown, TN

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

gyagxor, i know where it is but my love for it stems from some richard buckner sad bastard lyrics:

'Austin are you calling
Atlanta are you there
Eupora are you dreaming
That you saw my darling dear'

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 29 April 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

BerlinÃ³

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 29 April 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Abu Dhabi

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 30 April 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

adam and eve court, london

well yes they did.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 30 April 2004 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Novi Sad :

A city of northern Yugoslavia on the Danube River northwest of Belgrade. It became a free city of Austria-Hungary in 1748 and was the center of a Serbian literary revival in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Population: 178,896.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

And one for Ken:

StoKENCHUrch.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Strathbungo (as heard in the Bachelor Pad song "do it for fun")

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Broadbottom in Derbyshire always gies me a laugh. As does Maidenhead in Kent(I think). The last time I was there I found a road in Accrington called Nutter Street.

― Jason Anthony Powell (Stone Monkey), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

My favourite street name is Whip-ma-whop-ma-gait in York.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

No!

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a place in north yorkshire called Nob End.

― matthew james (matthew james), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

crossmyloof

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

have we mentioned Licking County, Ohio?

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd like to visit freezywater in enfield sometime

― prima fassy (mwah), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a Little Willey in Warwickshire.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

And my favourite street name has to be Kit Kat Terrace in Bow.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Around here, we also have Holey Moley Road and Phil Ochs Drive, but, alas, no Lake Tittikaka.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 2 May 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

BANGKOK

― JaXoN (JasonD), Sunday, 2 May 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Ouch !

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 2 May 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

um, why do I not live on Phil Ochs Drive?

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 2 May 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to live across the street from a biker-clothes shop called Harley Butz.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 2 May 2004 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I am compiling a mailing list of all schools in Northern Ireland at the moment and am alleviating the boredom by compiling a sublist of good names: Ballysally, Killaloo and Dunclug are my current top three. There is also a Scrogg Road.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd like to visit freezywater in enfield sometime

believe me, you really wouldn't.

I've always had a soft spot from Frampton Cotterell.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 6 May 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

'for' I mean.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 6 May 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I like "The Rest and be thankful", but that's more of a road than a place...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 6 May 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Singer (Scotland)

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Also Kilmahog (a request?) and Whifflet (reminds me of a dog sniffing)

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Best school ever: Bleary Primary School, Lurgan NI

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Puerile but quite compelling:

http://places.jump-around.com/closest/

[UK ILXors only, presumably]

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 25 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Mousehole in Cornwall.

Very fond memories of a very pretty village.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 25 June 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Pleasant Plains
Velvet Ridge
Possum Grape
Dry Prong
Omaha

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Dry Tortugas.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"The town on Cape Cod where I used to live: East Sandwich."

Ha! This is where I grew up (mostly).

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

LITTLE COMPTON

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha! This is where I grew up (mostly).

Did you like growing up there? My time on the Cape and nearby was mostly unpleasant, unfortunately. I also lived in Manomet and Pocasset briefly, and worked in Hyannis.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

But that was all while I was like, 17-20 years old, off and on, and longing either for the city life or the country life, not suburbia camouflaged as an expensive resort area. I was such a bitter teen.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Singer (Scotland)
-- Rumpy Pumpkin (the24hrsleepe...), May 6th, 2004 12:11 PM. (rumpypumpkin)

Singer is not a place name, it's a train station, named after a factory, which made sewing machines...dumbass!

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

dryandra

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Right then Smee. What about Spunkie?

Courtesy of http://places.jump-around.com/closest/

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't possibly comment.

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Singer is not a place name, it's a train station, named after a factory, which made sewing machines...dumbass!

Towns named after railway stations: C or D?

(there's also a Scottish railway station called IBM - it serves an IBM site, of course)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

My favourite British place name is Rime Intrinseca, which is in Dorset. A close runner up, and only a couple of miles from there is Yetminster, which always looks like a typo to me.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Devon has a good one: Zeal Monachorum

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

(and one of the nearest villages to Zeal Monachorum is Loosebeare, which also sounds nice and evocative, in a vague kind of way)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(there's also a Scottish railway station called IBM - it serves an IBM site, of course)

I used to work there. It's the last stop before Wemyss Bay - a place name I particularly like although it was ages before I found out it was pronounced 'weems'.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to ask - how did you think it was pronounced?

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the names Lesmahagow and Auchterarder. I have no idea what the places are like.

Some people pronounce Wemyss as "wims" rather than "weems". Nice views but not much to do unless you list caravaning amongst your hobbies.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Springfield. There's a Springfield in every state (except Alaska and Hawaii).

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

When I taught freshman english, one of the kids in my class wrote the "make an argument/take a side" essay assignment on which state the Simpsons' Springfield was in. I think he was arguing it was in Kentucky. Or maybe NOT in Kentucky, I've forgotten.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

HEADCORN

― loggedoutvicar, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

my flatmate came to the conclusion that it was in kentucky, i think (apparently there was one comment about it bordering tennessee in the south)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

http://tinyurl.com/5p3ej

"Where do you live mate?". "Upper Ramsbottom".

Roffle! etc.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

on that same page of the map is Bacup, where they used to make Zip discs

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

And so is Oswaldtwistle, which is locally pronounced "ozzle-twizzle". That's another favourite. Rawtenstall's good too (it sounds more like Rotten-stall), and Cheesden, and Pendlebury, and Little Lever.

The north is great for place names.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

pleasington is good too. pleasing, if you would.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yetts o'Muckhart

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, just a couple of sqaures away from the last map:

http://tinyurl.com/52p7r

Diggle! Which is where I used to go for my weekly Morris Dancing practice when I were a lad, believe it or not. Mossley's where I grew up.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Waikouaiti

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

On a tour of the South we came across the rather unfortunately named "Blacks Run"

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Barnawatha.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Old Sodsbury

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Atholl is pretty good. As is Ware.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

OMG, how did I not know before that the capital of Bahrain is called Manama.

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:22 (eighteen years ago)

Yalumlum

― Heave Ho, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)

COCKFOSTERS!

The first thing that came to mind was the first answer on this thread!

Place name once seen on a Chilean road sign: Peor es nada (Better than nothing).

― jim, Saturday, 8 December 2007 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

Warsaw

― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 8 December 2007 03:49 (eighteen years ago)

Sequim

― gabbneb, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

MAN-A-MA! MAN-A-MA-OH-OH-OH-AH-AH!

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:02 (eighteen years ago)

Big Bone Lick, KY for the win

― Euler, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:04 (eighteen years ago)

The city of BATMAN, Turkey !!!

― JTS, Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Westward Ho!

Gotta love a place with an exclamation mark in its name.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Manama is like: Mon as in money,AA mah

― Heave Ho, Saturday, 8 December 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

there's a restaurant here called Grumpy Dicks

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

oconomowoc ot$

― Oilyrags, Saturday, 8 December 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard

― Heave Ho, Sunday, 9 December 2007 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

McLeod Ganj
Crocodilopolis

Best names to roll round the mouth - Vanuatu & Guatemala, but to really milk Guatemala you need to go American and turn the t to d.

― ogmor, Sunday, 9 December 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

Squibnocket, Martha's Vineyard.

― gr8080, Sunday, 9 December 2007 03:34 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

The city of BATMAN, Turkey !!!

― JTS, Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:55 (3 years ago)

I just found this while idly surfing a world atlas on the bog. Awesome.

― acoleuthic, Saturday, 29 January 2011 19:30 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-1361.png

― totally small truffles (Abbbottt), Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:08 (fourteen years ago)

COCKFOSTERS reigns supreme

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:13 (fourteen years ago)

Butt, Montana

― beer, beer, beer (Pillbox), Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:32 (fourteen years ago)

I just random articled my way to Orroroo, South Australia.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:33 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

Beeston Bump

― ogmor, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:53 (eleven years ago)

Blubberhouses

― ogmor, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:54 (eleven years ago)

Mevagissey.

Not least because it comes out something like "Mega-vizzy" when I try to say it.

― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:59 (eleven years ago)

Me vag is see

― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:17 (eleven years ago)

Wetwang

― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 21:14 (eleven years ago)

stranraer

― saer, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 21:16 (eleven years ago)

Humptulips, WA.

― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 21:21 (eleven years ago)

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