Of couse Darwin can also get you on the road to Paradise - just takes longer…
In Utah there’s a geological/topographical feature named Molly’s Nipple
Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, England.
No funny place names thread is complete without a mention of Gropecunt Lane
Here in Delaware we’ve got the Brandywine and Murderkill rivers.
The towns of Moonachie & Little Ferry, New Jersey share “Redneck Avenue.”
Image ordering something and trying to convince the person it has to be delivered to “Redneck Avenue.”
New Zealand has a little place called Erewhon.
If you don’t get the joke, try looking at it backwards. Apparently it was deliberately named that as a joke.
Nohwere? Don’t geddit.
Erewhon Note: the W and H are transposed.
In Australia:
Balls Head
Tom Uglys Point
Come By Chance
Bottle and Glass Rocks
Hen and Chicken Bay
Puckapunyal
Lake Cadibarrawirracanna
Younghusband Penninsula
The Nut
Gunbarrel Hwy
Seventeen Seventy
OBX Creek
Ben Buckler
Cudgymaguntry
Plenty more…
Ontario has a Pakenham, which isn’t overly funny until you reach the Pakenham Inn.
… such as:
The least inspiring place name: Greystanes
The most nominatively determined place name: Tarcutta (where the tar cutters lived)
The second most nominatively determined place name: Collector (where the tax collector lived)
The third most nominatively determined place name: Rushcutter’s Bay (where …)
The hardest one for tourists to grapple with: Woolloomooloo (mnemonic: sheep toilet cow toilet)
Candidates for least likely to attract tourists: Cape Disappointment, Mount Warning, Disaster Bay, Shark Bay
Reminded by a glance over the San Jose Sharks roster…
Moose Factory, Ontario
(Home of Joanthan Cheechoo)
920 Disc Drive in Scotts Valley, CA; headquarters of hard drive manufacturer Seagate.
Guysville? Maybe if you’re 14. Come to New Jersey…we’ve got Manville!
Uh, when?
When I read the thread title, I immediatley thought of a building that has changed hands as a bar/restaurant/danceclub a dozen times in the past 20 years.
Currently, it does business under the clever name “Usta Be’s”
I always liked the fun to say Minnetonka Minnesota. It sounds like the place you’d find the Hamm’s beer bear. I have to admit I still know the notes and words of that jingle.
Virginia brings you Assawoman Bay
Dunmovin, California
Although it has grown a bit in the intervening years, the town of Wink, Texas used to live up to its name. You’ve heard of towns that if you blink you’ll miss them? Well, Wink was all on one side of the highway.
In addition to Wink there is also a Fink, Texas. I’ve always wondered: Why Fink? Coudn’t they have called it Rat, Squealer, or Stool Pigeon?