Nice!
You’ve got to admit the swimsuit really exploded on the scene.
People were always waiting to see if something would fall out.
Back to the topic at hand…what does bikini mean in whatever language was spoken by the people who named it?
I’m sure a lot of interpersonal fusion occurred as a direct result of all that fallout. Perhaps even some daughter species were produced.
Literally the very first sentence of the article:
Coconut place? That seems… fitting. At least for the top portion of the garment.
And don’t forget Bald Knob, Arkansas.
There’s a Goobertown, Arkansas founded by some peanut farmers in the 1800s. I here there isn’t much there anymore since the store was torn down recently.
And Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, of Groundhog Day fame.
Arkansas seems resplendent of funny named places.
Can you get from Fucket to Hell?
Round Bottom WV.
That’s not far from me, actually—maybe a thirty or forty minute drive. I’ve been to it; it has an impressive interpretive centre, in addition to the cliff itself. Recommended, and worth the drive from Calgary or Lethbridge.
Another offering: Seldom Seen, Ontario. I lived in Stouffville, Ontario for a few years, and the local public library had a great collection of works on local history. Sure, they mentioned nearby places with ordinary names like Ringwood, Gormley, Musselman’s Lake, and Lincolnville; but then there was Seldom Seen.
That part of Ontario had some impressive pine forests back in the 1800s, and there was a move to harvest as much lumber as possible, to aid in building the city of Toronto. One of the villages that sprang up to house lumber workers was Seldom Seen. Problem was, that while the trees were easy to get at, a deep river valley meant that there was only one road to get the lumber out to the railway at Stouffville. It could be done, but at an almost-greater cost than the lumber was worth. So the trees around the little place that became known as Seldom Seen, because nobody went there unless they had to, and was thus seldom seen, pretty much stayed in place, and people moved away. But not everybody.
I’ve been to Seldom Seen, because I got curious one day. It’s quite small, and is pretty much only residential. A few streets, houses, and that’s about it. But it still retains its name, and as I understand things, residents are rather proud that their little village remains … Seldom Seen.
May I just add a note for Scunthorpe? It’s instructive to google ‘the scunthorpe problem’.
Mollie’s Nipple, a mountain peak (or a pair, or several) - it’s a butte!
And right purty too!
The province of Newfoundland and Labrador has a number of odd names, including:
Come By Chance
The aforementioned Dildo
Happy Adventure
Heart’s Content, Heart’s Delight, and Heart’s Desire
Jackson’s Arm, Joe Batt’s Arm, and multiple other Arms
Leading Tickle
Lushes Bight
Petty Harbour
River of Ponds
Witless Bay
(Arms, Tickles, and Bights are all ocean inlets.)
Anybody want to go to a concert at Wankdorf Stadium?
According to here it means village on a green meadow.
Afterwards you might want to stop at Brig (bridge).
Those make sense when you realize “arm” used to mean a long, narrow bay (basically the sort of thing we’d call a fjord if it were in Norway).
Have we done French Lick (IN) yet? I don’t recall seeing it (but there’s a lot I don’t recall!)
Just once near the beginning:
It’s not hard to search.