Only slightly related…Here in Minnesota we have a town named Remur (pronounced reemher) and a town named Aitken (locally pronounced Ake-in). The joke here is that you have to get through Aitken before you get to Remur. (get it???sexual innuendo…guffaw)
Yeah, I’ve heard of Fucking, Austria.
As long as people are sharing cities, there arew two towns in California, one in the north, the other in the south: Weed and Reefer.
But I’d still like to know if there is actually a place named Bumfuk…
…and there’s a little place in northern New South Wales called Woodenbong.
Word Origin of “podunk”
More politely, and euphoniously, we say “the back side of beyond”. To get there by a circuitous route we go “behind Robin Hood’s barn”, for some obscure reason.
I’d always heard the expression as “around Robin Hood’s barn” and that the origin of the phrase was based on the fact that Robin Hood, having no fixed residence in Sherwood Forest, used the entire forest as his “barn”. Hence to go “around Robin Hood’s barn” you had to go all the way around Sherwood Forest; not exactly a direct route to anywhere.
Better: Cecil Adams on Podunk