Euphemism Point

That’s the joke I was cleverly circumlocuting.

Not to mention Big Bone Lick State Historic Site. (I note, also, that its address is on Beaver Road, KY.)

Hard as a rock.

In conjunction with Scunthorpe, of course.

Now for a real challenge, find a partner for Three Cocks Wales.

Profanity Point is so labeled on the first USGS maps of the area, from 1936.

I’ve long been curious about the naming of 4-Q Lakes in Desolation Wilderness.

Just a bit to the northwest of Dicks Lake and Dicks Peak, I see. :wink:

People who live in Scunthorpe get pretty annoyed that the many forums won’t allow the name.

Near me is a village called Wyre Piddle. The County wanted to change it to something like Wyre Puddle, or Wyre Stream, but the locals got up a petition and the County caved in. Many of you may have learned of the Tolpuddle Martyrs at school. I believe that it was the Victorians who changed it from Tolpiddle.

That’s not the only name that has problems with software filters, but it gave its name to the phenomenon: Scunthorpe problem

That almost puts the final nail in the lid on this one, but it’d still be nice to find out who named Profanity Point and when, and what the hell they were thinking.

I have found out that it’s in Colville National Forest, and it’s one of the places furthest from a road in the continental United States. But nothing on how it got its name.

It could be something as simple as surveyors asking a local the name of the mountain and getting a reply of “it’s just a fucking mountain” or something similar. The surveyors felt they couldn’t put that word on their map, so they came up with an alternative.

BTW, I just ran across a Profanity Ridge in Arizona. It’s way over near the New Mexico border, southeast of Eagar. Anyone got anything on that?

I can’t provide any info on how it got its name, but I have hiked past Profanity Ridge (on my way to the lookout tower on Escudilla Mountain). I didn’t know it was called Profanity Ridge at the time but when I looked it up just now I thought “Hey! I’ve been there!”

Obligatory link to the Arrogant Worms’ song A Night In Dildo. (SFW, sorta.)

There’s Negro Bill Canyon outside of Moab, which as you can imagine had a different name before the 1960’s.

There is also a lake in the Boundary Waters that started out as JAP Lake, for John and Addie (or Ann) Paulson, local mine operators. JAP Lake became Jap Lake, which got bowdlerized to Japanese Lake on some maps. Nowadays it’s just Paulson Lake.

We prefer, African American William Wash, thankyouverymuch. :wink:

That does have a certain ring to it, I must say.

I know several areas in rural Tennessee known as Browntown, but locals tell me that is a recent change of name.

In one area where I travel, my GPS shows the road name as Negro Hill Road, but the signs have a different name, which points to a recent change. I’m guessing Negro Hill Road was, in itself, an updating of an earlier name.

Well, if we are doing racial ones now, when I used to live in Bristol UK, back in the 1970s, there was a street named Blackboy Hill (I think they have renamed it now). It went right into Whiteladies Road.

Furthermore, “Bristol” itself is Cockney rhyming slang for a breast (Bristol City / Titty).

You beat me to it. I’ve still got the picture of the exit sign from the first time I went through there 40ish years ago. Been there a few times. Actually an interesting place. You can pick up all the fossils you want along the road cuts in that area.

Perhaps the New Mexico town of Los Ojos would be appropriate (if I have my Hispanic slang right).