# Reaching Climax: More Than Just a Feeling MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [June 21, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967 "2010-06-21T08:42:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/1 "2010-06-21T08:42:11Z")
My inspiration for this week’s MMP came from [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12571128&postcount=239). There are several towns named Climax throughout the country; North Carolina and Georgia were briefly discussed. Climax, Colorado is important in the history of mining and Colorado narrow gauge railroading. But I’m not here to discuss trains or history, because that will bore y’all even more than my ambulance tales. About a week before the MMP where this came up, VWife brought home a book entitled, “_REACHING CLIMAX And Other Towns Along The American Highway_”. On the cover is an amply endowed woman with a t-shirt that reads “Climax. More than just a feeling. Climax, Minnesota” We are here, friends, to provide snerkage to some of the more strangely named settlements. Listed and discussed inside are such booming metropolises as: [ul] [li]Dickshooter, Idaho[/li][li]Cuckoo, Virginia[/li][li]Beaver Lick, Kentucky[/li][li]Lover, Pennsylvania (is it near Intercourse?)[/li][li]Limp, South Carolina[/li][li]Big Ugly, West Virginia[/li][li]Erect, North Carolina[/li][li]Bummerville, California[/li][li]Sugartit, Kentucky[/li][li]Manlove, California[/li][li]Superior Bottom, West Virginia[/li][li]Burnt Corn, Alabama[/li][li]Downer, Minnesota[/li][li]Funk, Ohio (Lady is pictured holding up a t-shirt that says “I’m going to Funk U. this fall”)[/li][li]Idiotville, Oregon[/li][li]Honey Hole, Pennsylvania[/li][li] Spasticville, Kansas.[/li][/ul] I’m sure we can name other places. Off the top of my head are French Lick and Floyd’s Knobs, both in Indiana, and my personal all-time favorite, Bucksnort, Tennessee. \ away, and please feel free to provide other notable places with funny names. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/2 "2010-06-21T09:07:23Z")
Woot! First! Off to read now… Funny OP, **BBBobbio**! Here in the UK we are blessed with plenty of oddly-names places: Splat (Cornwall) Pity Me (Co. Durham) Pennycomequick (Devon) Nob End (South Lancashire) Great Snoring (Norfolk) Thong (Kent) Piddle River (Dorset) Sandy Balls (New Forest) Wideopen (Newcastle) Great Cockup (Lake District) Twatt (Orkney) Crapstone (Devon) Slack Bottom (West Yorkshire) No Place (Co. Durham) Lickey End (West Midlands) Hackballscross (Co. Louth) Horneyman (Kent) Fryup (North Yorkshire) One of my friends works at the golf club at Lickey Hills…he gets a giggle out of that every day. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/3 "2010-06-21T09:07:35Z")
First! (and, given the past few weeks performance, unfortunately possibly my last showing here for the week… :o. I’ll try to do better, though!) ETA: Well, the first one who actually **read** the OP! 😛 (shakes fist at **Boo** ) Carry over from last week – Happy Belated to **Sticky**. Everything else is a blur and will have to get bundled into the generic hugs and gropes… ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/4 "2010-06-21T09:10:36Z")
:blows consolatory kiss to **Lunch** : ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/5 "2010-06-21T10:53:11Z")
::ducks so that kiss actually makes it to **Lunch** :: Heh. Great lists of place names, both **Bobbio** and **BooFae**. I suppose people who grow up in an oddly-named place are sort of immune to their oddness (or maybe proud of it), otherwise they’d have re-named them by now… Am up. Semi-at 'em. Off to locate caffeine and make NOL. Hugs. GT ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/6 "2010-06-21T10:55:07Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienated. I want to do some yahd work soon but I’m bein’ nice for a while. However, I’m thinkin’ by seven a.m. on a Monday mornin’, most everyone around me is at least up so I may start in a few. **BBBobbio** I’m sure places abound around here but at the moment nuttin’ is comin’ to mind. Give me a while and I’m sure to entertain though. 😃 Happy Monday Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/7 "2010-06-21T11:21:50Z")
**BBBobbio** , you forgot Lizard Lick, N.C.(Lick Liz or Ard, I wonder?) Dwarf, Kentucky I’m up, caffeinated, and off to irk. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/8 "2010-06-21T11:24:01Z")
on a less scintilating note - in the 80s I lived in Hicksville NY ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/9 "2010-06-21T11:53:38Z")
Hi! I"M ON VACATIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! Anyhoo, in central NY there are lots of towns that end in “kill”. Apparently, a ‘kill’ is some sort of body of water. So you get Fishkill, NY! Funny, I just realized that the Catskills never seemed odd, but Fishkill is hysterical! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/10 "2010-06-21T11:56:01Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > **BBBobbio** , you forgot Lizard Lick, N.C.(Lick Liz or Ard, I wonder?) Never heard of it. While I’ve appropriated the name for a town in Cottonfield County, there is a part of rural Suffolk VA called Skeetertown, and appropriately enough, it borders The Dismal Swamp. It’s on the Google map. I also want to point out that while it wasn’t intentional, I got great pleasure seeing that I listed Manlove CA just above Superior Bottom WV. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/11 "2010-06-21T12:00:22Z")
Nothing to contribute in terms of place names, really. Well, other than the whole passel of towns with those fru-fru “biblical names.” Oh, wait… :smack: The best I can do is “Petah Tiqwa”, which figuratively means “Ray of Hope” but literally could be construed as meaning “An opening to hope for…” 😉 Ivory – I think the “Catskill” mountains should be renames the “Curiosity” mountains 😃 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/12 "2010-06-21T12:03:46Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Ivory – I think the “Catskill” mountains should be renames the “Curiosity” mountains 😃 Funny you should say that. Apparently I’m the only person the known universe that interprets “Curiosity killed the cat” as “Not satisfying the cat’s curiosity” is what killed him. Not whatever trouble he got into, but overwhelming, unsatisfied curiosity. I’m weird. But you all knew that already. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/13 "2010-06-21T12:04:23Z")
I always thought “kill” was Dutch for hill or mound or some such that is smaller than a mountain. It was the Dutch that first settled this area there’s Fishkill, Peakskill, Catskill, etc eta: > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Apparently I’m the only person the known universe that interprets “Curiosity killed the cat” as “Not satisfying the cat’s curiosity” is what killed him. Not whatever trouble he got into, but overwhelming, unsatisfied curiosity. that is a reasonable interpretation, and quite possibly what the author intended, but the rest of the world accepts it as “the trouble…” so yeah, you’re weird. :D;) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/14 "2010-06-21T12:10:29Z")
[quote=“anyrose, post:13, topic:543967”] I always thought “kill” was Dutch for hill or mound or some such that is smaller than a mountain. It was the Dutch that first settled this area there’s Fishkill, Peakskill, Catskill, etc I was curious to see if I remember correctly and I didn’t want the curiosity to “kill” me, so I looked up the definition of ‘kill’… > **[Kill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill)** > > Kill often refers to: > Other common uses include: > Kill may also refer to: Body of water. Phew, I feel so much better now. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/15 "2010-06-21T12:11:09Z")
[Lizard Lick, N.C.](http://www.rogersstark.com/lizard/lizard.htm) rosy, a mound of cats? ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/16 "2010-06-21T12:15:38Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Funny you should say that. Apparently I’m the only person the known universe that interprets “Curiosity killed the cat” as “Not satisfying the cat’s curiosity” is what killed him. Not whatever trouble he got into, but overwhelming, unsatisfied curiosity. > > I’m weird. > > But you all knew that already. To go on a tangent, I’m pretty sure Schroedinger chose a cat for his _gedankenexperiment_ just for the punchline… The cat is partially alive and partially dead until the experimenter “observes” it. So if the cat ends up dead, it’s the experimenter’s curiosity that kills it! ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/17 "2010-06-21T12:17:03Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > To go on a tangent, I’m pretty sure Schroedinger chose a cat for his _gedankenexperiment_ just for the punchline… The cat is partially alive and partially dead until the experimenter “observes” it. So if the cat ends up dead, it’s the experimenter’s curiosity that kills it! Hah! Love it. Really. Must. Shower. Now. ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/18 "2010-06-21T12:21:54Z")
Well, there’s Climax, Michigan, which is about 10 miles north of Colon, MI. There’s a fat ass joke in there, if you’re willing to go in after it, I guess. About 85 miles east of Climax is Hell, MI. Now, when you tell someone to go to hell, you can give them actual directions! And there’s Paradise, MI, and Christmas, MI, both on the shores of Lake Superior. The upper peninsula isn’t QUITE the north pole, but it can feel like it about February! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/19 "2010-06-21T12:23:19Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > [Lizard Lick, N.C.](http://www.rogersstark.com/lizard/lizard.htm) > rosy, a mound of cats? the purr would be deafening ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967/20 "2010-06-21T12:24:01Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Nothing to contribute in terms of place names, really. > Well, other than the whole passel of towns with those fru-fru “biblical names.” > Oh, wait… :smack: I wanna know who the hell is Aviv, and what am I supposed to tell them? :dubious: 😉 I know the translation is really something like “Hill of Spring”. It’s a joke, son. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-climax-more-than-just-a-feeling-mmp/543967.md?page=2)