# Funny/clever place names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703 "2007-09-19T03:34:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/41 "2007-09-19T17:49:30Z")
There’s a town called Muff in the west of Ireland where alot of divers congregate. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/42 "2007-09-19T17:51:28Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] There’s a town called Muff in the west of Ireland where alot of divers congregate. [/QUOTE] Do any of the residents do any diving? ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/43 "2007-09-19T17:53:16Z")
Torpenhaw Hill… somewhere in England. It means Hill Hill Hill Hill. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/44 "2007-09-19T18:13:17Z")
[QUOTE=if6was9] There’s [Intercourse, PA](http://www.800padutch.com/intercourse.shtml/)… Close to Bird-in-Hand and Paradise… And this is in Amish country. :eek: [/QUOTE] Is is anywhere near the road that leads into Hershey-- you know, the Hershey highway? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/45 "2007-09-19T18:17:23Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] > [@An Gadaí](#): > > There’s a town called Muff in the west of Ireland where alot of divers congregate. Do any of the residents do any diving? [/QUOTE] Yes, and apparently a lot of them are keen divers. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/46 "2007-09-19T18:26:22Z")
[Cut-n-Shoot, Texas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_and_Shoot,_Texas) [Earth, Texas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth,_Texas) [Dime Box, Texas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_Box,_Texas) (guess they were before the dime bag) ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/47 "2007-09-19T18:32:34Z")
There’ s town on the Salmon River in Northern California called Forks of Salmon. ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/48 "2007-09-19T18:43:58Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] Dude I’ve been to Bucksnort so many times. My dad took me fishing there a few times. When he had his divorce weekends and I was really young he would always feel like he had to work really hard to plan something to do with me that was fun. Hes the kind of man that is like paralyzed with confusion by little girls and what they want to do. Thus, fishing in bucksnort. I still have a hat. I can wear it though because I’ve been a lot. TO THE END OF IRONY!! [/QUOTE] Bless his heart for trying… 😃 My husband and I crack right up everytime we drive by the sign for Bucksnort when we’re on our way to my Mom’s (she lives north of Memphis). Imagine our first time tooling along I-40 and seeing that gem. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/49 "2007-09-19T18:56:56Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Do any of the residents do any diving? [/QUOTE] Ehhhh I already made that joke. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/50 "2007-09-19T19:02:27Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] Ehhhh I already made that joke. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Reeding comprension is my frend. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/51 "2007-09-19T19:04:17Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. [/quote] According to _Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words_ this means ‘You fish on your side, I fish on my side, nobody fish in the middle.’ ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/52 "2007-09-19T19:12:35Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. Beat that. [/QUOTE] Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch in North Wales (translates as “The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio’s of the red cave”) For the sake of sanity, its residents simply refer to it as Llanfair. Or there’s Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu, a hill in New Zealand (so not really a “place” per se) [[Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu)] ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/53 "2007-09-19T19:26:32Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] Yes, and apparently a lot of them are keen divers. [/QUOTE] I wonder if any of them ever engage in cunnilingus. ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/54 "2007-09-19T19:45:44Z")
I always thought it would be terrible if I ended up having to live on [Dead Broke Street, South Dakota.](http://maps.google.ca/maps?oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&ie=UTF8&ll=43.906087,-103.586311&spn=0.018583,0.046778&z=15&om=1) (I drove past it between Mount Rushmore and Deadwood.) Of course, who can’t appreciate the irony that [Darwin leads you to Hell?](http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=8264975689080414847,42.438407,-83.942757&saddr=Darwin+Rd+%4042.438750,+-83.942760&daddr=Hell&mrcr=0&mra=pe&sll=42.435747,-83.960609&sspn=0.038071,0.093555&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1) ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/55 "2007-09-19T19:46:02Z")
> [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > I wonder if any of them ever engage in cunnilingus. I think Ryanair’s cheaper these days ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/56 "2007-09-19T19:55:38Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] According to _Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words_ this means ‘You fish on your side, I fish on my side, nobody fish in the middle.’ [/QUOTE] Yep. I wonder what it would be if they’d added “But big chief fishes wherever he wants except on every other Thursday.” ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/57 "2007-09-19T20:37:40Z")
[QUOTE=beowulff] There’s a Nothing, Arizona: [Nothing, Arizona - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing,_Arizona) and a Santa Claus, Arizona: [Santa Claus, Arizona - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus,_Arizona) [/QUOTE] The Grand Canyon State also features [Show Low.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Low) An unfinished sign for a grain elevator led to the renaming of a Wisconsin hamlet from New Chicago to [Eleva.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleva) Many communities are simply named for numbers, but baseball pitcher Bill Voiselle has the unique distinction of wearing #96 in honor of his [South Carolina hometown.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety_Six%2C_South_Carolina) The fact that the palindrome YREKA BAKERY can be made from the names of a California town and a typical business has led to some [fanciful speculation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yreka) on the origins of the city’s name. I’ve also heard that _Yreka_ may be a corruption of the word “Eureka”, which happens to be California’s state motto. However, the truth seems to be more prosaic – _Yreka_ appears to be taken from a Shasta Indian word describing the nearby mountain now named for the tribe. ---
**Author:** ![Trollhaugen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Trollhaugen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trollhaugen)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/58 "2007-09-19T20:48:44Z")
There is No Name, Colorado. ---
**Author:** ![Intelligently\_Designed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intelligently_designed/32/20957_2.png) [@Intelligently\_Designed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intelligently_Designed)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/59 "2007-09-20T00:09:20Z")
I submit the town of [Condom](http://www.condom.org/), in France. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703/60 "2007-09-20T01:08:05Z")
Has Dildo, Newfoundland come up yet? There’s Nobber, Co. Meath, Ireland and Terminfeckin too, although I think that might be in Co. Louth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-clever-place-names/419703.md?page=4)