# Blueball Avenue. Or, best street names ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 23, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162 "2009-04-23T22:18:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/1 "2009-04-23T22:18:10Z")
I was driving into Pennsylvania today on I-95, when I pass under a bridge with a sign that reads “Blueball Ave” on it. I about drove off the road. Almost as funny as Exit 69 on I-75 in Michigan: Big Beaver Road. Any other good ones? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/2 "2009-04-23T22:48:52Z")
Old Cummer Avenue. The skeeviest street name in Toronto. It has a [train station](http://www.gotransit.ca/publicroot/en/station/station.aspx?station=CMGO). ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/3 "2009-04-23T22:50:19Z")
When I was a kid in Fort Worth, TX, there was a road out in the boondocks named “Weed Road”. The sign would get stolen every few weeks, and it was a badge of stoner honor to have a “Weed Road” sign in your room amongst the local potheads. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/4 "2009-04-23T23:04:34Z")
One of the landfills my work deals with is on “Solid Waste Ave”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/5 "2009-04-23T23:13:20Z")
Monster Road, Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/6 "2009-04-23T23:13:40Z")
There’s a street here in Ann Arbor called Felch St. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/7 "2009-04-23T23:15:50Z")
I know someone who lives off of Dirt Road. And yes it is. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/8 "2009-04-24T00:20:54Z")
There’s a semi-respectable subdivision court in the city where I live called SOL Court. Jeez, shouldn’t you be living on skid row? And there’s a country road not far from the city of Peytona, called Peytona Beach Road. Har! Rural humor! ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/9 "2009-04-24T00:29:55Z")
There’s a tiny little street in Louisville, Ky called Nanny Goat Strut Alley. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/10 "2009-04-24T00:39:50Z")
[Cretin Avenue](http://www.flickr.com/photos/diversey/2815226415/), St. Paul, MN. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/11 "2009-04-24T00:54:39Z")
There’s a [French Hussey Rd](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&abauth=b17c4eb8:G3n8TRm4AxycNl7HssG3TpZxP1I&output=html&hl=en&q=french+hussey+rd,+nh&zoom=1) in Rochester, NH. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/12 "2009-04-24T01:07:00Z")
I don’t remember if it is actually located in Cibolo, TX, or Selma, TX, but there was a long back road that we used to drive down to smoke and drink and other high school hijinks called Bat Cave Road. Usually, a Friday night adventure involved picking up the best friend and saying, “Let’s go, Robin!” ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/13 "2009-04-24T01:11:39Z")
Lois Lane near the Detroit Zoo. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/14 "2009-04-24T01:16:00Z")
Theres a park on I75 that is "Big Bone Lick State Park’. I stopped for a tee shirt and could not find a stand or shop. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/15 "2009-04-24T01:20:55Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Theres a park on I75 that is "Big Bone Lick State Park’. I stopped for a tee shirt and could not find a stand or shop. It is located between the towns of Beaverlick and Rabbit Hash. This is real. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/16 "2009-04-24T01:23:46Z")
[Butt Hole Road](http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2003/10/family_sick_of_.html) in Yorkshire takes some licking. > [@](#): > > And dad-of-two Paul and wife Lisa, 29, grew tired of people repeating their address and asking: “Is that near the ring road — or the bottom of the street!” 😛 Edit: There’s also a [Butthole Lane](http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/216726) in Leicestershire. I believe the name has something to do with grouse butts (hollows used by hunters to hide in while shooting), boringly enough… ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/17 "2009-04-24T01:38:09Z")
> [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](#): > > I don’t remember if it is actually located in Cibolo, TX, or Selma, TX, but there was a long back road that we used to drive down to smoke and drink and other high school hijinks called Bat Cave Road. > > Usually, a Friday night adventure involved picking up the best friend and saying, “Let’s go, Robin!” I have a friend who used to live in [Bat Cave](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Cave,_North_Carolina). ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/18 "2009-04-24T02:22:19Z")
A short street in the vicinity of 125th and Riverside Drive, up Harlem way in NYC, is named for Daniel Tiemann, a paint manufacturer who briefly served as Mayor in the 1850s. Yep, it’s [Tiemann Place](http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/2009/04/walk-tiemann-place.html). (“time and place”…geddit?..no?..where am I going with this?..aaaaaa, screw you anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/19 "2009-04-24T03:04:20Z")
The Brighton Pride parade finishes at the corner of Queen St and Dyke Rd. (I might have got street and road mixed up there, but they’re not the point). Several streets in central London are named for what used to go on there. Cock Alley, Gropecunt Lane and Pissing Alley mean exactly what you’d think they mean. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/20 "2009-04-24T03:34:13Z")
In my neighborhood in the Bronx there’s a Fink Street. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162.md?page=2)