Strangely named places you've been to

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This is a bit of an offshoot of the thread about strange things about towns you know, which I think should be self explanatory from the thread title.

I’ve been to Cool, California on a hot day.

I’ve passed through Weed, California on the way to Oregon. It’s legal here now! And yes, businesses there sell souvenirs playing up the slang meaning of the town’s name.

I once went wine tasting in Fair Play, California. That town’s so small it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. I think I was treated fairly there.

I’ve also driven through Rescue, California. It’s another really tiny town, but it has a post office, a school, and a fire station that I’m sure will rescue if needed. (There are a lot of small towns with interesting names in California, aren’t there? Most of them probably date from the Gold Rush.)

For one not in California, I mailed some postcards and took a selfie in Hell, Norway, which I’m told actually means something perfectly innocent in Norwegian, although I’m sure all the residents are well aware of what it means in English. Really sending a postcard from Hell is pretty much the only reason tourists go to Hell.

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St. Louis du Ha! Ha! in Quebec

East Oostburg, WI (It is east of Oostburg, which translates from the dutch as Eastburg, so I’ve really been to East Eastburg. I live east of East Eastburg.)

Felch, MI.

Spread Eagle, WI.

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I vacationed in Bumpass, Virginia. I think it’s pronounced Bum Pass, but of course we referred to it at Bump Ass all week.

Also been to Hell, Michigan.

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Intercourse, PA. Sent my HS teacher a postcard from there.

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I spend a fair amount of time in Newfoundland, so…

Dildo (you don’t believe me? Check this out)
Joe Batt’s Arm
Exploits
There are plenty more. Whoever got there first and named places way back when had a sense of humor, apparently.

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According to a guide in Alaska “arm” was a term English sailors used for a long, narrow inlet. Basically it means the same thing as a fjord. So I would assume Joe Batt’s Arm was a narrow inlet named after someone named Joe Batt. But it definitely is a funny sounding name.

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Blue-eye, Arkansas. At least I think it’s in Arkansas. Very close to the Missouri border.
DogPatch, Arkansas.
‘Mixdenny’ probably knows a bunch.

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I passed by the Dildo sign in Newfoundland. I’ve been to Come by Chance and Witless Bay there.

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While on TDY @ Barksdale AFB earlier in the year, my coworker and I took a drive up to Caddo Lake. On the west side of the lake was a little town called Uncertain, TX.

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Slapout, Oklahoma

Beck you can’t count Dogpatch, that’s like counting Truth or Consequences NM, it’s a commercially sponsored name.

Unlike Slapout, Oklahoma.

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Dang it.

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Dead Horse Point State Park in Utah.

French King Bridge, Massachusetts. Couldn’t they make up their minds about which French King they were naming it after? Apparently the name comes from French King Rock, which is visible from the bridge. But that just transposes the question back one step without answering it.

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Slippery Dick’s Halfway Inn in Alaska.

Backlick Road in Virginia.

Boring, OR and Drain, OR.

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I have ridden the road from Blue Balls to Intercourse, on my mobile vibrator. I mean motorcycle.

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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Alberta, Canada.

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Wartrace, Tennessee.

I always read the name as Wart race. Some say it’s supposed to be War trace. I say that’s no fun.

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I went thru Virginville last week.

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I thought it was named after the nearby French King Motel.

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I once went to East Aurora, New York, which happens to be 98 miles WEST of Aurora, New York.

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Ragged Ass Road, Yellowknife, NWT