There’s Rough and Ready, California, which mostly just consists of a Post Office, Fire Station, and a few houses. And looking at Google Maps just now, there’s a road called Slave Girl Road in Rough and Ready. I’d love to know the story behind that street name. There’s also a Secession Lane, but that’s not all that surprising; that area is home to a lot of libertarian types who dream of seceding from California and forming the State of Jefferson.
I knew it! I’m surrounded by Athols!
Which lent its name to the cocktail, which is a great summer quencher.
I always got a snicker out of seeing signs for Okahumpka, Florida. It doesn’t sound like anything dirty; it’s just fun to say.
An old Massachusetts joke: “They named three towns in Massachusetts for Governor Peabody: Peabody, Marblehead and Athol.”
(In truth, not even the first of these was named for Endicott Peabody, governor from 1963 to 1965. The town’s name - pronounced “PEE-b’dee” - was changed from “South Danvers” in 1868 to honor George Peabody, a prominent philanthropist.)
He’s all over Wisconsin: Bong Park, Bong AFB, and a Bong Road near me.
You saw Kenobi65’s photo… well, a friend of a friend at UW-Madison had a smaller “Bong Recreation Area” sign…
Peculiar, Missouri, which has two origin stories for its name (I doubt either is true).
Uranus isn’t a town. It’s a tourist attraction, basically a collection of buildings done up to look vaguely Old West.* There’s a mini golf course (the Putt Pirates), a circus museum, a fudge & candy shop (“get your fudge packed in Uranus”), etc. The employees thank you for your patronage by saying “thank you for picking Uranus.” If a tourist attraction could be based on a pun, this is it. I live about 60 miles from there, it’s something to do if you’re passing through the area or live within an afternoon’s drive.
The owner of the attraction was a strip-club owner named Louis something. He styled himself “Mayor Louie.”
*I suppose by some definitions this part of Missouri qualifies as being part of the Old West, although we were state before the Civil War.
Gobbler’s Knob, Utah, and Knob Noster and Pilot Knob, Missouri.
There’s a Lizard Lick in North Carolina.
Fuzzy butt falls and Six finger falls are right next to each other in Arkansas.
I’ve not been down that way for years, like 30 years. Someone gave me a copy of their paper which is of course full of the same stuff. I did not realize it wasn’t a “real town”. So I hope I didn’t mess up the thread.
There is Penistone in South Yorkshire.
Did you come back?
Even brought my handbasket on the return journey.
There’s Foul Rift in New Jersey, named after rapids on the nearby Delaware River.
Yeah, yeah, cue the New Jersey jokes…
I gotcher foul rift right heah, Buddy!
Coxsackie NY. Local pronunciation is “Cook-sackie,” but outsiders get a giggle. Phil Proctor and Dave Bergman (of the Firesign Theater) joked about it in a show they did up here.
The Coxsackievirus was named after being discovered in a fecal sample from there.
IANA medical anything, but you really shouldn’t be finding fecal samples in your coxsackie. That’s bad.