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There's a street near me called Farm Park View, which is a tiny cul de sac alongside a sixties shopping parade, with nothing but a long wall and some wheelie bins. No park, no farm and certainly no view.

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:25 (twenty years ago)

(Inspired by the mention of Japan Crescent, London N4, on the Hornsey thread.)

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Bythesea road, Trowbridge. About as far inland as you can get.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)

LOL

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Stoney Batter Mermaid Road in northern Delaware, USA. Not a mermaid in sight.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Plus, battering mermaids with rocks is wrong.

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Norfolk House Road in Streatham. Surely, Norfolk Houses (like Norfolk Windmills) are nowhere near South London!

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Nutsy, when you've basted the mermaids in Stoney Batter are you meant to fry them?

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

There's a John Nash Drive near me, named after the venerable bisexual craziman mathematician - it has two schools on it; one for severely mentally handicapped kids and one for Educationally and Behaviourally Disturbed kids. So it's actually kind of apt.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

E ave - no ecstasy for miles

http://www.thecarconnection.com/images/scrapbook/original/1969.jpg

http://www.thecarconnection.com/images/scrapbook/original/1967.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thecarconnection.com/images/scrapbook/original/1971.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

i think, there is a road on the way to ATP, called "winding road". which is completely straight!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

adam and eve court off oxford st is nowhere near the gardens of eden

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Which reminds me, ken, that in the Goodies Book of Criminal Records, there's a mock-up of a solicitors' letter from a law firm whose address was 987 Short Lane. I remember that made me laugh a lot at the time.

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:01 (twenty years ago)

also.. not proud of it but once in an immature moment i littered on tidy street, in brighton

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like it was asking for it, Ken

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Place des Innocents, Paris

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

squirrel level road, petersburg, virginia

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

park on a driveway drive on a parkway etc.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine lives on a road called [i]Ambush Street[/i]. Which, given the area he and I live in, is probably very appropriate.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Every time I see this thread I wish Bono had had the wit to write a song called "Where the Streets Have Inappropriate Names"

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Any street named Euclid that isn't completely straight.

(There's one in San Francisco and one in northwestern Chicago suburbia)

― mikef (mfleming), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9822/stboulevard7ho.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Aww, that reminds me of Avenue Road in Swiss Cottage.

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

You gotta dig the van as well.

I've posted this one here before:

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Still not right.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

haha!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Chalk Farm Road. Wrong on so many levels. Well, at least three.

― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, well what about Prince of Wales Road?!??!

It's not in Wales, there are no princes there, and errr... I bet Charles has never set foot on it!

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I used to go past a Butt Hole Road every Sunday in Conisborough, South Yorkshire, UK. Mum didn't like us giggling about it on the way to church.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/gauche/chf11.jpg

Not really inappropriate, just kind of funny.
street near my home town in a chicago suburb called glenwood.

― bobpeck (bobpeck), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Gaping Lane in Hitchin. I've always wanted to walk past with a marker pen and insert an "F" and a "G" in the appropriate places.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Fgaping Glane?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I grew up on Grand Boulevard, which was a tiny suburban street in a central NJ housing development. Not "grand" in the least.

― mike a, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:05 (twenty years ago)

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I don't think King Arthur had much jurisdiction over Western Oregon, but you never know.

― reddening (reddening), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:46 (twenty years ago)

i live right off of "Level Road," which climbs a steep hill and is very hilly and windy in general.

it's not really that funny, though. sorry.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

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Irasburg, VT

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

Titty Ho (in Raunds, Northamptonshire) is very disappointing.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:20 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

There's a Pleasant Road in Southend town centre - a lovely place for a summer picnic on a Friday night, I bet.

― darren (darren), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

near my high school was the intersection of quakermeetinghouse road and cheese factory road. both the meeting house and the cheese factory are long vanished. i still think "cheese factory road" is one of the best road names ever.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

― ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

we live a few blocks from SMARTT DR.

i would LOVELOVELOVE to live on that street.
m.

― msp (mspa), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

For many years in downtown Cleveland, prior to the revitalization of the late 80s/early 90s, the street where a lot of hookers plied their wares was Prospect St.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Manchester, NH has a Come Street. I've never heard it pronounced, but I guess it's appropriate enough as it's a residential area and folks be coming there a lot.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Spadina Ave. in Toronto - not inappropriate per se, but sounds very close to something inappropriate.
I like pronouncing it "Spagina".

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I once lived on a Forest Range (Levenshulme, Manchester, UK), which had no trees at all. The roads around were all named after trees. They didn't have any trees on either.

― Zora (Zora), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

Aww, that reminds me of Avenue Road in Swiss Cottage.
-- Cuair Crithlonracha (masonicboo...), February 28th, 2006

Or Street Lane in Leeds, which is a fairly major arterial road.

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Thursday, 16 March 2006 07:59 (twenty years ago)

http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=seaman+and+cummings&csz=10034&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 16 March 2006 08:14 (twenty years ago)

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