# Exotic street names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494 "2014-04-19T17:37:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/121 "2014-04-24T17:33:16Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Yeah, but the standard that was asked for when this first came up was first name + surname, not initials + surname. If we go by what people are called, then no one beats U Nu and Ba U. Then U Nu does not count, because in Burmese, U is an honorific and not a name, [as mentioned at the top of Nu’s Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Nu). Same goes for U Thant, that was just a title. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/122 "2014-04-25T08:34:20Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Then U Nu does not count, because in Burmese, U is an honorific and not a name, [as mentioned at the top of Nu’s Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Nu). Same goes for U Thant, that was just a title. As discussed also in [Post #92](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17309175&postcount=92). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/123 "2014-04-25T16:18:29Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > As discussed also in [Post #92](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17309175&postcount=92). Ah, so it was. But the entry is not quite correct in it meaning “Mr.” It does, but it’s a bit higher than a mere “Mr.” It is “Mr.” for men held in especially high respect. (Possibly similar to the Thai “Than.” “Khun” is the Thai for your run-of-the-mill Misters. A lot of languages over here are like that.) ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/124 "2014-04-26T03:30:13Z")
In Sydney: LOIS LANE FRANKIE LANE (apparently some local council official was a Frankie Laine fan). In Melbourne: [This gem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACDC_Lane) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/125 "2014-04-26T04:15:15Z")
I just remembered another good one. [Scroll down to see the street sign.](http://www.putzscreamywhip.com/main/history.php) ---
**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 26, 2014, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/126 "2014-04-26T06:00:01Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Then U Nu does not count, because in Burmese, U is an honorific and not a name, [as mentioned at the top of Nu’s Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Nu). Same goes for U Thant, that was just a title. However, you were the one who wanted to use the standard of “what everybody calls him” for I.M. Pei. If U Nu doesn’t count, then I.M. Pei certainly doesn’t either. “I.M.” is not a name by any stretch. ---
**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 26, 2014, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/127 "2014-04-26T06:01:47Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > I just remembered another good one. [Scroll down to see the street sign.](http://www.putzscreamywhip.com/main/history.php) There’s a Fink Street in my neighborhood in the Bronx, named after an early Dutch settler. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/128 "2014-04-26T16:35:53Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > However, you were the one who wanted to use the standard of “what everybody calls him” for I.M. Pei. If U Nu doesn’t count, then I.M. Pei certainly doesn’t either. “I.M.” is not a name by any stretch. Harumph! IM is part of his name. ---
**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 26, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/129 "2014-04-26T17:32:41Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Harumph! IM is part of his name. Of course it’s not. **Amateur Barbarian’s** original criterion was “shortest real first+last name combinations of any well-known figure.” IM is by no stretch of the imagination his “real first name.” Of course, the question is rather moot since Li Na beats him anyway. If you changed the criterion to shortest real full name, then Messrs. Nu and Ba will be tough to beat, since they don’t have actual surnames. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/130 "2014-04-27T00:29:42Z")
Needle Rush Ct in Castle Hayne NC Palin Trail in Beulaville NC. It intersects McCain Lane and is one block from Rattlesnake Gulch & from Romney Ct (latter name does not show on Google) Chicken Drive in Wilson NC, serves a major bbq restaurant and was to intersect with a planned but not yet built Barbecue Lane ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/131 "2014-04-27T01:06:05Z")
How could I forget this one: Fish Ranch Road in Orinda, CA. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/132 "2014-04-27T01:57:13Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Of course it’s not. **Amateur Barbarian’s** original criterion was “shortest real first+last name combinations of any well-known figure.” IM is by no stretch of the imagination his “real first name.” Of course, the question is rather moot since Li Na beats him anyway. > > If you changed the criterion to shortest real full name, then Messrs. Nu and Ba will be tough to beat, since they don’t have actual surnames. We shall have to agree to disagree. Moving on, we have [Lon Nol](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Nol), whom I’m sure will be familiar to you and others of our age. His name also has the advantage of being a palindrome. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/133 "2014-04-27T02:04:21Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Moving on, we have [Lon Nol](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Nol), whom I’m sure will be familiar to you and others of our age. His name also has the advantage of being a palindrome. “ **… who** I’m sure …” That’s what I get for trying to be all fancy. ---
**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 27, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/134 "2014-04-27T04:25:06Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > We shall have to agree to disagree. Not really something subject to disagreement, since your suggestion is factually wrong. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Holdsworth\_Effect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@The\_Holdsworth\_Effect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Holdsworth_Effect)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/135 "2014-04-27T04:25:34Z")
Foddering Farm Rd, and Ramtail Rd, both in Rhode Island. Here there is a Cemetery Rd- not so exotic, except just as you turn on it, another sign says Dead End… And on private property, there’s Long Walk, which ends at Short Pier. Lotta Shorts around here. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/136 "2014-04-27T06:53:52Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > How could I forget this one: Fish Ranch Road in Orinda, CA. It’s where all the grizzlies on Grizzly Peak go fishing. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/137 "2014-04-27T15:00:34Z")
One of my sisters used to live on Ferry Landing. Closest actual ferry landing to Sugar Land is down in Galveston. > [@Craneop2](#): > > In Crosby, Texas there is Winking, Blinking, and Nod streets. They are in order leaving town. 'Bout five miles west of New Orleans, just south of the western end of the Earhart Expressway, is the convergence of Hickory, Dickory, and Dock. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/138 "2014-04-27T17:52:15Z")
Could’ve sworn that someone eventually put Mouse Lane in that same area but I can’t find it on Google Maps. Maybe it got redeveloped. ---
**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 27, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/139 "2014-04-27T21:21:53Z")
It’s not its official name, but [Salsipuedes,](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FxSUaBjM-pw/UfqyEqsysGI/AAAAAAAAJEk/xQBIg9j8_yU/s1600/DSC_0533.jpg) a narrow street in a poor area of Panama [filled with shopping booths,](http://www.travel-images.com/pht/panama147.jpg) means “Get out if you can.” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/140 "2014-04-27T23:20:18Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Could’ve sworn that someone eventually put Mouse Lane in that same area but I can’t find it on Google Maps. Maybe it got redeveloped. He got a shock And fell like a rock; It was an **electric** clock! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494.md?page=8)