Somewhere around here I have a list of sexually suggestive placenames. Many of them have already been contributed to this thread, but there’s also
Laid, Scotland
Three Cocks Junction, England (a railway station, I think. I wonder if they play footsie in the loo there…)
Twatt, Orkney Islands Wankers Corner, Oregon
I think there’s one or two more, but can’t remember where the list is.
I have another list of strange placenames, but it’s in the same place as the other list. Again, many have already been contributed, but…
Bugtussle, OK and TN; also Bugscuffle, TN Cheesequake State Park, NJ Great Snoring, Norfolk, England; also Little Snoring
Why, AZ
Whynot, MS; Wynot, NE; Ynot, MT (variations on a theme)
Ydalpom, CA (spell it backwards. Unfortunately, Ydalpom is no longer; it was inundated by Lake Shasta)
NC also has a town of Climax. A few miles away is the Town of Erect. This prompted one of my classmates to ask the professor on a class trip, “How long does it take to get from Erect to Climax?” The professor chided him that it was not about the length of the trip, but that we were all going to arrive at Climax at the same time. I told my classmate that the trip can be quite long. Especially if you stop to eat out.
Lute Skywatcher: Your post reminded me of 5 Championship Drive, the site of the Palace of Auburn Hills. The address honors the three NBA titles won by the Detroit Pistons and the two WNBA crowns claimed by the Detroit Shock. On a related note, the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Quicken Loans Arena is at One Center Court.
I once saw a photo of the Hell, Michigan town entry sign that was covered with ice. Does anybody have it and can they post it? Or take one this winter if you le=ive there?
My offerings, until I get to my maps: Condom, France, and Peniscola, Spain.
It’s not too funny, but the combination of neighboring Mexicali, Mexico and Calexico, California is kind of cute.
And I once lived off Calavo Road, a subtle reminder to our neighborhood to buy more California avocados. In case you didn’t get the message, it turned into Avocado Road on the other side of the 94.
Why, Arizona sits right where one freeway splits off into two freeways going off in diagonal directions, leaving a Y shape.
But wouldn’t it be a great name for a synth-based band that plays music for porn videos?
Even worse, they steal names from other places. While moving to San Diego we passed through Paris, TX and San Diego, TX. I was 10 years old. You can imagine my disappointment when we stopped in San Diego, TX, and the relief I felt when we moved past it.
Also Climax, GA. My father was born nearby in Recovery, GA: as the old joke goes, the local newspaper printed that the president was on the road to recovery, so everyone went to the train station to meet him…
In a recent thread I asked about Bug Tussle and Texas has one of them. I don’t think it was stolen from another place. Nobody had an answer that was definitive either.
In the township of Whitchurch-Stouffville, in Ontario, is a small hamlet called Seldom Seen.
It was established many years ago by a couple of guys who figured it would be a good location for a logging operation. But while there were plenty of forests, no roads went there, and it was difficult to get the logs to the railroad. A deep ravine made sure that even people had problems coming and going. The logging operation failed, but a few people stayed on and lived there.
There is a road to Seldom Seen today, and a cluster of houses. But since the road ends at the hamlet and doesn’t go anywhere but there, the place remains seldom seen.
