Exotic street names

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. Same goes for U Thant, that was just a title.

As discussed also in Post #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.)

In Sydney:
LOIS LANE
FRANKIE LANE (apparently some local council official was a Frankie Laine fan).

In Melbourne:
This gem

I just remembered another good one. Scroll down to see the street sign.

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.

There’s a Fink Street in my neighborhood in the Bronx, named after an early Dutch settler.

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.

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

How could I forget this one: Fish Ranch Road in Orinda, CA.

We shall have to agree to disagree.

Moving on, we have 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.

Not really something subject to disagreement, since your suggestion is factually wrong. :wink:

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.

It’s where all the grizzlies on Grizzly Peak go fishing.

One of my sisters used to live on Ferry Landing. Closest actual ferry landing to Sugar Land is down in Galveston.

'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.

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.

It’s not its official name, but Salsipuedes, a narrow street in a poor area of Panama filled with shopping booths, means “Get out if you can.”

He got a shock
And fell like a rock;
It was an electric clock!