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Towns with strange names.

Postby Loafing Smurf » Sun Jul 04, 2004 12:19 am

Towns with strange names.

Balls Falls, Ontario, Canada
Bigfoot, Texas, USA
Blow Me Down, Newfoundland, Canada
Bonanza, Colorado, USA
Celebration, FL, USA
Chicken, Alaska, USA
Climax, Michigan, USA
Crackpot, England
Crotch Lake, Ontario, Canada
Cut and Shoot, Texas, USA
Dead Horse, Arkansas, USA
Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada
Ding Dong, Texas, USA
Earth, Texas, USA
Egypt, Texas, USA
F**king, Austria
French Lick, Indiana, USA
Frostproof, Florida, USA
Gun Barrel City, Texas, USA
Half.com, Oregon, USA
Happy, Texas, USA
Hell, Michigan, USA
Holy Moses, Colorado, USA
Hot Coffee, Missouri, USA
Humansville, Missouri, USA
Hygiene, Colorado, USA
Intercourse, Pennsylvania, USA
Jot 'em Down, Texas, USA
Knockemstiff, Ohio, USA
Last Chance, Colorado, USA
Looneyville, Texas, USA
Mary's Igloo, Alaska, USA
Monkey's Eyebrow, Arizona, USA
Nameless, Texas, USA
Needmore, Texas, USA
Ninety-Six, South Carolina, USA
North Pole, Alaska, USA
Nothing, Arizona, USA
Notrees, Texas, USA
Okay, Oklahoma, USA
Santa Claus, Indiana, USA
Shorter, Alabama, USA
Smackover, Arkansas, USA
Sopchoppy, Florida, USA
Study Butte, Texas, USA
Toad Suck, Arkansas, USA
Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico, USA
Two Egg, Florida, USA
Valentine, Texas, USA
Vulcan, Alberta, Canada
Waterproof, Louisiana, USA
Why, Arizona, USA

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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby ChuckMajik » Sun Jul 04, 2004 12:53 am

Hmmm, Crotch Lake sounds like a popular vacation destination.
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby Loafing Smurf » Sun Jul 04, 2004 12:57 am

There is also a "Balls Falls", somewhere in Ontario. I totaly forgot about that one.
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby ozzy72 » Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:02 am

My local airfield (and the parachute club) is in a village called Pagan (well thats its name translated to English) 8)
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby microlight » Sun Jul 04, 2004 3:50 am

There's a place called Pratt's Bottom south of London!

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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby ATI_7500 » Sun Jul 04, 2004 5:14 am

Sexau (Bavaria)
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby Polynomial » Sun Jul 04, 2004 6:36 am

Yankalilla - Australia
Innaloo - Australia
Humpty Doo  
Fannie Bay...  I especially like that the main road in Fannie Bay is Dickward Dve ...  (i took that off ebay)
Dunnedoo - Australia
Cockermouth
Black Butt - Australia
Condon

ok for the next few u have to pronounce maori (native New Zealand, where WH- is phonetically pronounced F-)

Whakatane        F*ckatanae
Whakawerewere         F*ckawerawerea
Whangamata          Fangamataaa
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby Politically Incorrect » Sun Jul 04, 2004 6:44 am

Boogertown & Big Bone Lick in TN ;D
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby ATI_7500 » Sun Jul 04, 2004 6:44 am

California (Federal State of Brandenburg,Germany)
Philadelphia (Brandenburg as well)
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby DougC-3 » Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:42 am

Alabama USA has a few:

Smuteye
Slapout
Sky Ball (a couple of miles from Joy ???)
Palmer has a doppelg
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby SideWinder9 » Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:23 am

haha. Those are fairly .....different! 8)
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby Stormtropper » Sun Jul 04, 2004 11:19 am

Ninety-Six, SC is accutally a very nice town, I got a good friend who lives there.

There is also a hill just north of Greenville, SC, USA thats called "Ceaser's Butt", but I always thought it looked more like a big mac ::) ::)
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby EirePlane » Sun Jul 04, 2004 1:17 pm

There is also the isle of dogs somewhere in london
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby Pinchaser... » Sun Jul 04, 2004 3:09 pm

Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico, USA  
i heard a few years ago they were thinking about changing the name of that town. i think it should stay.
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Re: Towns with strange names.

Postby tsunami_KNUW » Sun Jul 04, 2004 6:15 pm

I've mentioned a few of these before. Here's some more:*Boring, Oregon
        *Cheesequake, New Jersey
        *Bird In Hand, Penn.
        *Blue Ball, Penn.
        *Mt. Joy, Penn.
        *Bagdad, Arizona
        *Arkadelphia, Arkansas
        *Sleepy Hollow, California (Ever seen the horror movie? ;D)
        *Cuba, Illinois
        *Paint, Penn.
        *Miami, Oklahoma
        *Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario
        *Paris, Texas
        *Sequim, Washington
       
           
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