Funny/clever place names

There’s a town called Muff in the west of Ireland where alot of divers congregate.

Do any of the residents do any diving?

Torpenhaw Hill… somewhere in England. It means Hill Hill Hill Hill.

Is is anywhere near the road that leads into Hershey-- you know, the Hershey highway?

Yes, and apparently a lot of them are keen divers.

Cut-n-Shoot, Texas

Earth, Texas

Dime Box, Texas (guess they were before the dime bag)

There’ s town on the Salmon River in Northern California called Forks of Salmon.

Bless his heart for trying… :smiley:

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.

Ehhhh I already made that joke. :slight_smile:

Reeding comprension is my frend.

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.’

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]

I wonder if any of them ever engage in cunnilingus.

I always thought it would be terrible if I ended up having to live on Dead Broke Street, South Dakota. (I drove past it between Mount Rushmore and Deadwood.)

Of course, who can’t appreciate the irony that Darwin leads you to Hell?

I think Ryanair’s cheaper these days

Yep. I wonder what it would be if they’d added “But big chief fishes wherever he wants except on every other Thursday.”

The Grand Canyon State also features Show Low.

An unfinished sign for a grain elevator led to the renaming of a Wisconsin hamlet from New Chicago to 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.
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 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.

There is No Name, Colorado.

I submit the town of Condom, in France.

Has Dildo, Newfoundland come up yet?

There’s Nobber, Co. Meath, Ireland
and Terminfeckin too, although I think that might be in Co. Louth.