# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/21 "2009-04-24T07:33:20Z")
Not a street, but a town: [Weed, CA](http://www.flickr.com/photos/7681645@N08/2747230999/). ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/22 "2009-04-24T09:04:46Z")
My town has an intersection of White and Pryde. We’re also proud of Jingle Pot Road, Dingle Bingle Hill and Twiggly Wiggly Lane. Apparently Frank Ney, our roaring drunken pirate mayor of yore decided to let his kids name some of the streets. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/23 "2009-04-24T09:54:57Z")
Southbound on State Route 25 (I believe) from Sandown NH there is Pog Mo Thoin Road. Saw the street sign once and nearly drove off the road laughing. Wish I’d gotten a picture. ---
**Author:** ![shorin-ryu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shorin-ryu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shorin-ryu)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/24 "2009-04-24T13:51:30Z")
I had a customer give her address as Afterglow Ave. I always wondered what the other streets in the subdivision were called… ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/25 "2009-04-24T13:59:44Z")
Yellowknife, NWT, in northern Canada, has a [Ragged Ass Road](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragged_Ass_Road_(street)). ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/26 "2009-04-24T14:00:12Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > 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. I think Blueball is also a town in Pennsylvania. Right near Intercourse. (no, really) ---
**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, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/27 "2009-04-24T14:02:34Z")
> [@scifisam2009](#): > > 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. This thread is over and the winner has been declared. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/28 "2009-04-24T14:24:45Z")
There is a major thoroughfare in northeastern Philadelphia called Street Road. ---
**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, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/29 "2009-04-24T14:25:42Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I think Blueball is also a town in Pennsylvania. Right near Intercourse. (no, really) The road from Blueball to Paradise goes through Intercourse. Really. Check it out on a map. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/30 "2009-04-24T14:25:52Z")
A street running from Little Ferry to Moonachie New Jersey is named Redneck Avenue. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/31 "2009-04-24T14:29:41Z")
My county has Honeypot Road. I can’t say for sure the connotation is the same in NC, but where I grew up in Indiana, honeypot was a reference to a septic tank. > [@cjepson](#): > > There is a major thoroughfare in northeastern Philadelphia called Street Road. Elizabeth City, NC has Road Street. ---
**Author:** ![JerseyFrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@JerseyFrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerseyFrank)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/32 "2009-04-24T15:04:41Z")
When I moved to this area, I was mildly lost and had just passed “No Name Road.” There’s a sign for it at a traffic light controlled intersection. It doesn’t appear to have a name on Google Maps. I gave up and turned around once I turned onto “[Good Intent Road](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=good+intent+road&sll=39.804085,-75.075374&sspn=0.013303,0.019312&ie=UTF8&ll=39.804094,-75.075427&spn=0.006652,0.009656&z=17).” The paving appeared normal, but I know [where that one leads](http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/road+to+hell+is+paved+with+good+intentions). ---
**Author:** ![gang\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@gang\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gang_green)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/33 "2009-04-24T15:07:35Z")
There’s a road near Austin that’s Nutty Brown Road. The Nutty Brown Cafe is there. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/34 "2009-04-24T15:08:58Z")
Morningwood Drive (Olney, MD) ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/35 "2009-04-24T15:28:28Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > There’s a street here in Ann Arbor called Felch St. Well since Big Beaver and Feltch are taken, I suggest the intersection near Feltch of Gott/Hiscock. There is also a Feltch/Fountain intersection which sounds particularly disgusting. Also in Ann Arbor is the intersection of Nixon/Bluett, which I’m sure was funny at some point in history In Knoxville, the main street downtown is Gay Street. This is not odd in and of itself, but it’s funny to hear rednecks mumble the name when they say they’re going to Gay Street. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/36 "2009-04-24T15:40:14Z")
> [@scifisam2009](#): > > 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. Alas, none of these [now exist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane). However, there’s plenty of Cock Roads and Cock Streets dotted across the country - to me, these seem more likely to show a historical connection with cockfighting. ---
**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, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/37 "2009-04-24T15:59:16Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Alas, none of these [now exist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane). However, there’s plenty of Cock Roads and Cock Streets dotted across the country - to me, these seem more likely to show a historical connection with cockfighting. I saw that Wiki article, but the thing is, I’ve seen these streets in real life. They might have been renamed officially, but the roadsigns are still there (no other roadsigns are) and they’re not known by whatever name they might have been tentatively been changed to. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/38 "2009-04-24T16:16:14Z")
> [@scifisam2009](#): > > I saw that Wiki article, but the thing is, I’ve seen these streets in real life. They might have been renamed officially, but the roadsigns are still there (no other roadsigns are) and they’re not known by whatever name they might have been tentatively been changed to. Going by the map in the article, and Google Streetview, the only sign in the location given for Grope Countlane is ‘Tesco Metro’… ---
**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, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/39 "2009-04-24T16:24:14Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > It is located between the towns of Beaverlick and Rabbit Hash. This is real. This is true. And the mayor of Rabbit Hash is a dog. This is true also. But it’s also not a real town, particularly. ---
**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 24, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162/40 "2009-04-24T17:06:32Z")
Just remembered another one in metro Detroit: Dix Highway, which at one point intersects with Champagne Street. So the old joke goes: “Your mamma lives off of Dix and Champagne.” Also, there’s the hilariously-named strip club, Chix on Dix. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueball-avenue-or-best-street-names-ever/494162.md?page=3)