# I believe I've found the town with the worst name ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 8, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-ive-found-the-town-with-the-worst-name-ever/64776 "2001-05-08T15:38:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-ive-found-the-town-with-the-worst-name-ever/64776/41 "2001-05-10T14:19:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AerialCartwheels \* > \*\*Athena- I’m from Marquette. Wooo hoooooo! > > Slortar- Dude! You used to live up here? Where did you live?? \*\* Awesome. In fact, when I go up north in a couple of weeks, I’ll be visiting friends…um, “friend” actually :rolleyes:, in Marquette. Beautiful city. I spent two years in KI Sawyer, then spent the rest of my upbringing 6 miles east of McFarland (draw line between Marquette and Escanaba, bisect, there it is). Yes, in the middle of that stretch of swampy, hillbilly-infested forest in the central UP… ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-ive-found-the-town-with-the-worst-name-ever/64776/42 "2001-05-10T16:17:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gravity \* > \*\*It’s pretty far south, actually. It’s about 35 miles southeast of Rutland, near Brownsville, Cavendish and the Ascutney Mountain Resort. > \*\* Damn. Well, I’ll be in Castleton for Governor’s Institute in June, I might just have to take a little detour… But sometime this summer, are you onboard for Burlingtonfest, Gravity? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-ive-found-the-town-with-the-worst-name-ever/64776/43 "2001-05-10T17:12:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flodnak \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > > \*\*What about Intercourse, PA-get this-it’s an AMISH TOWN. > > Go figure. > > \*\* > > Erm. > > 1. It’s not an Amish town. There are a number of Amish households with addresses in Intercourse, but they are outnumbered by non-Amish households with addresses in Intercourse. > > 2. Where do you think Amish kids come from…? \*\* I know, I was basically being silly. ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-ive-found-the-town-with-the-worst-name-ever/64776/44 "2001-05-10T17:16:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \* > \*\*But sometime this summer, are you onboard for Burlingtonfest, Gravity? \*\* Well, I hadn’t planned on it, actually. No car, and I tend to avoid parties of any sort. I’m an antisocial sort. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-ive-found-the-town-with-the-worst-name-ever/64776/45 "2001-05-11T01:11:52Z")
Look on the map of PA. There’s only two ways to get from Blue Ball to Paradise. You can get there through Intercourse, or you can take Bird in Hand 🙂 speaking of fucking, austria, the town of Devon (PA?) had quite the problem with vandals a few years back. Every time I passed a sign for it on the highway the “n” was spraypatined out to spell… Devo. By the time they got around to creating “n” patches to specifically overlay the N in devon when it got vandalized, no one got the joke anymore 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ghandi5569](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@ghandi5569](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghandi5569)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-ive-found-the-town-with-the-worst-name-ever/64776/46 "2001-05-11T01:25:17Z")
Funkstown, Maryland. 🙂 or you can try Big Otter, WV. There are two things in Big Otter–a gas station and a tourist shop with hats and cups and souveniers for Big Otter. …at least Funkstown has a sewage treatment plant. ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-ive-found-the-town-with-the-worst-name-ever/64776/47 "2001-05-11T01:55:29Z")
Newfoundland is full of wacky names for their towns! \*\*Come By Chance \*\* is the one that probably sticks in my mind the most. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-ive-found-the-town-with-the-worst-name-ever/64776/48 "2001-05-11T13:12:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ghandi5569 \* > **or you can try Big Otter, WV…** There is also a Big Beaver, MI. At my previous job, we had a female salesperson who worked out of an office there, and after she left she was referred to as “the Big Beaver girl”. I was too young (and innocent) to understand… But (IMHO) I still think “Felch” is worse than even “Toad Suck” or “Fucking”. Now maybe if someone found a “Bestiality, MO” or “Squick, NY”… (I think I’ve been corrupted…) ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-ive-found-the-town-with-the-worst-name-ever/64776/49 "2001-05-12T01:25:27Z")
I have a coffee mug from Toad Suck, Arkansas, but it just has a cute little froggie on it and the name. They should have let their imaginations be more, urmmm, literal. I’m hopin’ that reincarnation is true, 'cause I wanna come back as “The Coroner of Comical Corners”. Don’t that just conjure up some wacky hijinx? ---
**Author:** ![south333](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@south333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/south333)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-ive-found-the-town-with-the-worst-name-ever/64776/50 "2001-05-12T03:31:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ghandi5569 \* > \*\*Funkstown, Maryland. 🙂 > > or you can try Big Otter, WV. There are two things in Big Otter–a gas station and a tourist shop with hats and cups and souveniers for Big Otter. > > …at least Funkstown has a sewage treatment plant. \*\* Ok thats just freaking scary. Where’d you find out that? lol, and we call it funky town here 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-ive-found-the-town-with-the-worst-name-ever/64776.md?page=2)