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an ilxer lives at 'countryside'

other good names for streets?

both in york:

1. pavement
2. whip-ma-whop-ma gate

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Just up the street is the intersection of Rudyard and Kipling.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Zang

― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Sleater-Kinney to thread!

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

at work i often have to order items for an address in _lambs conduit street_ in london.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

ahh, there is a bumper sticker of that exit. it is done and dead.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

i go past lambs conduit st quite often!

an ilx couple live quite near it in fact

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I've always liked Tidy Street (which runs parallel to Over Street, nearly as good.)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:25 (twenty-three years ago)

i imagine it to be cobbled, gareth, but it's probably a dual carriage way or something, isn't it.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Gay Street Lane, in West Sussex, between Billingshurst and Pulborough

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:31 (twenty-three years ago)

"Excellent Street"

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:33 (twenty-three years ago)

i love haunches of vension, in london.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Most of the City of London is great value for street names. However, for real fun, I prefer looking at maps of Pennsylvania. Those crazy Pennsylvanians and their wacky town names!

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:46 (twenty-three years ago)

jim thorpe, pa!

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Excelsior Boulevard is the main road by my mum's house and is surprisingly good value (now all Twin Cities ilxors know whaere my mum lives, but hey).

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 3 January 2003 10:59 (twenty-three years ago)

suzy are you and ed going back to the twin cities sometime in the new year?

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 3 January 2003 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

i spent the whole of last year living in a house on 'electric avenue'!

it was in somerville, mass.

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 3 January 2003 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Dumbwoman's Lane inRye. Not really "cool", but when you see it from the bus you're never sure that's what it rreally says.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 3 January 2003 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Whip-wa-whop-ma-gate! I've been to an office on there!

Others:

Every Street in Manchester. Geddit? (I've been down Every Street etc)

There was also the case reported on the UK's premier regional news programme Granada Reports where a housing development had taken place against the wishes of the local council, who had lost an appeal to the Secretary of State. Full of malice towards the development, the Council exercised their right to name the streets and decided that they were to be called 'Hitler Avenue' and Goebbels Close' and such like.

I don't know how the story ends, but can imagine that there is a postscript that the premier regional news programme didn't mention as it wasn't half as newsworthy.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 3 January 2003 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Letters from my bank have the return address of 1, Poultry. I enjoy this, but am never going to go there as it is a shower of monoliths full of corporate hoors.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 3 January 2003 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

i spent the whole of last year living in a house on 'electric avenue'!
it was in somerville, mass.

That's amazing. I'd probably spend the entire time I lived there going, "We're going to rock down to....."

The famous great road name in the Detroit area is "Big Beaver." It's also Exit 69 off of on of the major highways.

― Aaron W, Friday, 3 January 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

on -> one

― Aaron W, Friday, 3 January 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I live near "Sodom Road". I think one of the villages near my was nicknamed "Sodom" because of all the rum running and gambling there.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 3 January 2003 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

in shrewsbury there is a v.narrow, steep street, w.almost touching elizabethan b&w overhang, called grope lane

(official histories insist that it stopped being called "grope cunt lane" in the 18th century)

http://www.shoppingshropshire.com/images/grope_lane.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 3 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

In my neighborhood there's a street called "Dicksonia", which is only funny if you mispronounce it just right.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Marquess Road to thread.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

there used to be a grope cunt lane in london also

i live less than 3 minutes walk from marquess road

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

in fact, mark s must go past marquess every time he gets the 38

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

touring is great for this... we went past a cock's green in birmingham and penis stone way up north...

― masonicboom, Friday, 3 January 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

i do!! even though it's on a giant reroute at ther moment thanx to the graham road siege!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i tried to get the 141 to manor house the other day, and that went on a big detour via highbury corner, but that cant have been due to the siege, is something going on at Newington Green?

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

The most descriptive street name I know is Steep Hill in Lincoln. It's on a hill. It's steep. What more do you need to know?

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I just heard about that on the news. How long have you been away Mark, about nine days is it?

― Graham (graham), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.pdnonline.com/legends/legends12/images/rue_jean_cocteau.jpg

― erik, Friday, 3 January 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in a city that has Flip WIlson Boulevard. Oh yes!

Rue de Mauvais Garcon.

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 3 January 2003 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

i always liked goa way in california

― maura (maura), Friday, 3 January 2003 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I grew up off of highway 666. The bastards changed the name later, tho.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 3 January 2003 17:26 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.lostamerica.com/day/666.jpg

Awww. Tiny bit homesick now.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 3 January 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Extra Place behind CBGBs used to be sort of an alley... hey it brings something up in mapquest!

http://mq-mapgend.websys.aol.com/mqmapgend?MQMapGenRequest=FDR2dmwjDE%3Byt29%26FDJnci4Jkqj,MMCJ:HOEvq%3Bw7a1wy:%29zbwhur:%26%40%24:%26%40y:l4z:l61:TD%15JFE:HOHQJ%3Bw7a1wy:%29zbwhur:%26%40%24:%26%40%24x9%40

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 3 January 2003 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

FELCH

― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 3 January 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

well. the funniest road i can think of is eureka ave in bc, canada. but tell me, does anybody else have the town of dildo in their state/country/province?

― Kawaii KoNeko, Friday, 3 January 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm DYING over Grope Cunt Lane.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 January 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

In northern Virginia there's Backlick Road...fits the nation's capitol surprisingly well.

While driving to and from Trenton over New Year's I saw a sign for Street Rd.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 3 January 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

In Virginia there's Blacks Run. Seriously.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 3 January 2003 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

In Hull there's a street called Land of Green Ginger.

(In an excess of whimsy a design company based there have named their building "Second Star on the Right and Straight On 'til Morning")

― chris j (chris j), Saturday, 4 January 2003 02:27 (twenty-three years ago)

St. Paul has a "Cretin Ave." It inspired the Ramones to write "Cretin Hop". There is also a school called Cretin-Derham Hall. Paul Molitor went there.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 4 January 2003 02:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Hooray for Halcyon Approach in Chesterfield! Also it is impossible for me to pass Angel Pavement in Oxford without getting Angel Carver Blues or No Life Singed Her in my head, but that's more a problem with me than anything else. It might nearly have been a good street name but the sign is really tacky and nasty so blah.

(What's with defacing the "Friars Entry" streetsign in Oxford to say "Friars Try"? No, you're supposed to take dull signs and make them sound rude, not the other way round. Fools.)

― grab on to me tightly as if I knew the way (reb), Saturday, 4 January 2003 02:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Greta Green in Santa Monica, CA.
"The 1", "The 101", "The 10", "The 405" and all the definitive-article-prefixed freeways in LA. They sound so totemic, especially with "sigalert."

Chicago has very idiosyncratic street names. Hearing the morning chopper traffic report on WGN has a Shipping Forecastlike soothing effect on me, inducing a synesthaesia of frosty winter mornings of cocoa and getting bundled up for the school bus.

these aren't right but generally along the lines of "Congestion on the Dan Ryan into Kedzie, Pulaski Skyway jammed up to Fullerton, inbound Kennedy backed up to Ogden, slow going through the Junction, accident at Keeler and Cicero, Kimball exit closed . . ." mmm all in that nice Chicago accent

― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 4 January 2003 04:17 (twenty-three years ago)

GretNa Green, that is

― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 4 January 2003 04:18 (twenty-three years ago)

In Virginia there's Blacks Run. Seriously.

Oh, I believe you. In the meantime in DC, the semiofficial northern boundary of the Georgetown neighborhood is the Whitehaven Parkway.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 4 January 2003 04:42 (twenty-three years ago)

My favourites:
Ha Ha Road (London, SE18)
There And Back Again Lane (Bristol)
Holy Bones (Leicester)

― Alfie (Alfie), Saturday, 4 January 2003 05:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I like when Chicago cabbies call Goethe "Goy thee."

I live in the Village of Country Life Acres.

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 4 January 2003 05:29 (twenty-three years ago)

From Beaverlick KY take Beaver Rd approx 1 mile west and you will arrive at your destination: BIG BONE LICK STATE PARK, 3380 Beaver Road, Union KY 41091-9627

http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/parks/i75frames/bigbone.gif

― Hunter (Hunter), Saturday, 4 January 2003 07:12 (twenty-three years ago)

A Southern California institution...

http://wordways.com/zzyzx.jpg

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Saturday, 4 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in LETSBE avenue

― baggy (baggy), Saturday, 4 January 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoever mentioned Penis Stone.. it's not, it's Penistone, (pronouced Pennystun) it's near Sheffield. Totally spoils the fun of it, but less embarrasing for us poor souls who used to live near there.

I've always been a fan of Ralphs Wifes Lane, which is somewhere near Ormskirk. (not sure where the apostrophies should go, sorry)

― Celeste (Celeste), Saturday, 4 January 2003 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty-two years pass...

I’ve mentioned this before, but at the time I didn’t know there was this thread: a road on the eastern shore of Maryland called Ape Hole Road

― The Whimsical Muse (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 14 January 2025 02:00 (one year ago)

https://maps.app.goo.gl/2P6J5iSqq7W3mgH88?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

― The Whimsical Muse (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 14 January 2025 02:01 (one year ago)

i live a few blocks from the intersection of clinton avenue and president street in brooklyn, which was briefly a cringily popular spot for photos in 2016

in any case, it's no hoyt/schermerhorn

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 January 2025 04:35 (one year ago)

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