# Funny geographical names **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 11, 2005, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-geographical-names/293993 "2005-03-11T08:13:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-geographical-names/293993/41 "2005-03-12T08:04:25Z")
[Waterproof, Louisiana.](http://www.city-data.com/city/Waterproof-Louisiana.html) ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-geographical-names/293993/42 "2005-03-12T08:29:59Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > My favorite one here in Panama is the _Rio Culo Seco_, literally “Dry-Ass River.” Hi Colibri! There seems to be at least one other winged creature in this Straight Dope select flock: Darwin’s Finch. If we add Latin American names, this list might go on and on. I enjoy all of them though! ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-geographical-names/293993/43 "2005-03-12T09:59:44Z")
UK dopers might find [this site](http://places.jump-around.com/closest/) a bit of fun… Results within just 30 miles of me include: **Six Mile Bottom, Titty Ho, Bummers Hill, Minges** and **Nasty** This is _exactly_ what the internet was invented for 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-geographical-names/293993/44 "2005-03-12T23:19:23Z")
**Truth or Consequences, New Mexico**. ---
**Author:** ![lostthesun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@lostthesun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lostthesun)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-geographical-names/293993/45 "2005-03-13T00:02:18Z")
This isn’t exactly what you’re looking for but it’s close and I thought it was worth posting. As some of you probably know in any kind of Christian church they have historical councils held in different places and normally are named after the place: the council of _name_ and such. Anyhoo, I don’t know when, but some church held a council in the city of Worms (pronounces vorms) in Germany. Now this alone isn’t that humerous and neither is “The Council of Worms”. But being the whitty people they were they named it in German, and for those of you who don’t know the wort for Council in German is Diet. Ahem… the “Diet of Worms” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-geographical-names/293993/46 "2005-03-13T00:41:02Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > Well, we’ve already mentioned Intercourse, PA, but I don’t think the nearby Blue Ball was listed. > > My personal favorites – they’re not even naughty – are towns we saw many years ago in England: Thornton Le Beans and Sheepy Magna. Intercourse is between Blue Ball and Ecstasy, PA. I went from Blue Ball through Intercourse on the way to Ecstasy. Lizard Lick, NC Condom, France Lake Chargaugagogmanchaugagogchaubunagungamaug, Mass. ( It means, from the Indigian, "You fish on your side of the lake, I’ll fish on my side, and nobody fishes in the middle.) ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-geographical-names/293993/47 "2005-03-13T00:55:52Z")
**Mianus, Connecticut** (pronounced my anus) Featured in an episode of Jackass I believe. **Waldo, Ohio** Only funny if someone asks you where it is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-geographical-names/293993.md?page=2)