Reaching Climax: More Than Just a Feeling MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Happy first day of summer! It feels like it’s been summer for a month now, down here.

Some funny Texas towns:

Cut n Shoot, Texas
Gun Barrell City, Texas
Hoop And Holler, Texas
Ding Dong, Texas
Muleshoe, Texas
Bacon, Texas
Noodle, Texas
Oatmeal, Texas
Turkey, Texas
Trout, Texas
Sugar Land, Texas
Salty, Texas
Rice, Texas
Frognot, Texas
Bigfoot, Texas
Hogeye, Texas
Cactus, Te xas
Notrees, Texas
Best, Texas
Veribest, Texas
Kickapoo, Texas
Dime Box, Texas
Old Dime Box, Texas
Telephone, Texas
Telegraph, Texas
Whiteface, Texas
Twitty, Texas

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True story – “Tel Aviv” is some turn-of-the-20th-century-guy’s attempt to give the New City a “biblical” name! :smiley:

From the Wiki article about Herzl: “The name of Tel Aviv is the title given to the Hebrew translation of Altneuland by the translator, Nahum Sokolow. This name, which comes from Ezekiel 3:15, means tell— an ancient mound formed when a town is built on its own debris for thousands of years— of spring. The name was later applied to the new town built outside of Jaffa, which went on to become Tel Aviv-Yafo the second-largest city in Israel. The nearby city to the north, Herzlia, was named in honor of Herzl.”

Oh, and “Aviv” is a perfectly good given name in Modern Hebrew, too – so the answer to your question is: “Do you know their family name?!” :stuck_out_tongue:

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Add to this list:
Bug Tussle, Texas (Yes, two bugs fighting…)

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All those Texas towns, and you don’t have Deepinaharta?
:wink:

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Zap, North Dakota. Tiny town (231 people) in the western part of the state. Site of the Zip to Zap, in 1969, in which several THOUSAND college students descended on the town just for the heck of it. Suffice it to say things got ugly in fairly short order, and the national guard was called in to beat some sense into the rabble.

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In Spain, simulated town names often have the endings “de arriba” (upper) and “de abajo” (lower). There are several such real pairs, including Cerezo de Arriba and Cerezo de Abajo (Upper Cherry Tree and Lower Cherry Tree), and the Monastery of St Millan de la Cogolla, in whose Monasterio de Yuso (Lower Monastery) were written the oldest words in Spanish and Basque that are preserved; they’re on the margins of the same book.

Today there is a bit in one of the free newspapers about unusual lastnames and their location: Parado (Unemployed, although it could also mean Standing Still or Standing Up), which exists only in Navarre; Trabajador (Hard Worker), which centers mostly around Seville; Teta and Pene (Tit and Penis), which along with other equally-explicit names can be found in Aragon…

The lastname Lobo (lit. Wolf), a favorite of writers, does not exist as a Spanish lastname. Yes, there are people called Lobo, but it’s Galician or Portuguese in origin. “Wolf” is a word which is relatively common as a lastname in different languages, but for some reason it didn’t catch in Spanish; my own WAG is that in Spanish the Latin word separated into Lope (a common firstname in the Middle Ages) and Lobo, and it was the Lope that beget the lastname López as well as becoming a lastname itself. We do have Catalan Llops and Basque Ochoas, to go with the Galician Lobos.

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When I drive us up to Scotland to visit ‘im indoors’ family, I am always amused by the town called Ecclefechan. No reason, it just makes me laugh.

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if we’re going that route, there’s Ho Hokus and Mahwah New Jersey (the latter always sounds to me like the noise a baby godzilla would make)

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**Bong Bong **
Burpengary
**Burrumbuttock **
**Chinaman’s Knob **
Cock Wash
Cockburn

Come By Chance
Delicate Nobby
Diapur
Dismal Swamp
**Dog Swamp **
**Doo Town **
**Dunedoo **(prononced “dunny-doo”)

Eggs and Bacon Bay
Foul Bay

Tiddy Widdy Beach
Gingin

**Goonoo Goonoo **(pronounced “gunna g’noo”)
**Grong Grong **
Humpty Doo
**Humpybong **
**Innaloo **
Koolyanobbing
**Mount Buggery **
Nar Nar Goon
Nowhere Else
Pimpinbudgie
**Poowong **
Rooty Hill
The End of the World
**Tittybong
**
Teddywaddy
Tom Ugly
**Upotipotpon **
Useless Loop
**Watanobbi **
**Wee Waa **
Wonglepong

**Woodie Woodie ** [URL=“Google Maps”]

Yorkeys Knob

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It’s not a town, but Bong Recreation Area is in southeastern Wisconsin.

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Most of my family is from the Climax, KY area. That might explain why they had so many kids. :smiley: Up until my mom’s generation, it wasn’t unusual for a family to have 10+ children: my grandpa was in the last bunch of that, as he was #2 out of 10 kids. Not a single child out of my grandpa’s generation had more than three children: my mom was an only child, as was I.

ETA: Climax, KY is near Wildie and Randy. :smiley:

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Sports fans may have heard of the microscopic town of Joe, Montana.

All 22 residents decided to rename the town of Ismay to Joe as a publicity gimmick back in 1993. They’ve since reverted back to Ismay, but I’m really not sure why.

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PA has Intercourse (or course) and three different Frogtowns. I have visited two. And that was before the chimp video (don’t ask) started to circulate.

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That Jesus Christ is born? No --------- wait. That’s what we’re supposed to tell mountains. Or tell on mountains. I’ll have to think about Aviv’s more and get back to you.

I got the joke and decided to continue the funning

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So there’s a Dismal Swamp Down Under? I thought I lived in the only one…

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Yelverton, Ontario (an obscure crossroads northeast of Oshawa).

Just pronounce it. Yelverton. Yellllllverton. It’s the canonical hick town name!

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Well, what could be better than the Grand Tetons??

Here in Florida we have:

Bagdad, FL
Bloxham, FL
Bohemia, FL
Bratt, FL
Briny Breezes, FL
Bunker Donation, FL
Cadillac, FL
Celebration, FL
Chaires, FL
Christmas, FL
Cook’s Hammock, FL
Cosmo, FL
Couch, FL
Cross City, FL
Day, FL
Deadman Landing, FL
Dinner Island, FL
Doctor’s Inlet, FL
Dogtown, FL
Dorcas, FL
Early Bird, FL
Elfers, FL
Eucheeanna, FL
Festus, FL
Floridatown, FL
Fluffy Landing, FL
Frostproof, FL
Haile, FL
Harp, FL
Havana, FL
High Springs, FL
Hollywood, FL
Lone Cabbage Fish Camp, FL
Lorida, Florida
Lulu, FL
Mayo, FL
Mayo Junction, FL
Micanopy, FL
Needmore, FL
New York, FL
Niceville, FL
Ocheesee, FL
Okahumpka, FL
Olustee, FL
Panacea,FL
Picnic, FL
Possum Bluff, FL
Rattlesnake Bend, FL
Reddick, FL
Relay, FL
Roach, FL
Romeo, FL
Roy, FL
Sapp, FL
Sopchoppy, FL
Spray, FL
Spuds, FL
Stuckey, FL
Teasdale, FL
Titusville, FL
Tobacco Patch Landing, FL
Two Egg, FL
Usher, FL
Wacahoota, FL
Weeki Wachee
Yalaha, FL
Yeehaw Junction, FL
Yellow Jacket, FL
Yulee, FL

Okay, yeah, I cheated with google. Sue me! :smiley:

Tupug

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Puggy, isn’t Havana, FL really Miami?

:smiley:

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Apparently the residents were trying to muscle in on the cigar trade:

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I’ve long held that the only correct way to pronounce Weehawken is to say it like you’re currently jumping the General Lee over a creek.