Is that a figure of speech, or are there really places with those names?
Both real places.
We’re good at place names too.
I see. Thank you.
A page on British eccentrics, and no one has mentioned Screaming Lord Sutch and/or the Monster Raving Loonie Party?
They are the two furthest-apart places on the island of Great Britain - a distance of 900-something miles. John O’Groats is on the very north-eastern tip of Scotland, and Land’s End is on the south-western tip of Cornwall in England. I’ve driven between them (a friend of mine was riding his bike from one to the other for Oxfam, and I drove the back-up car). It’s an amazing journey. Here’s someone else’s map of the trip, though this isn’t the route we took.
Just what we need…another cock-blocker!! I’m definitely very embarassed to see she came from Pittsburgh.
No whackos in the US? What about Peter Pan, Anal Mary, the DORRENCE #9 hook arm girl and Lizard Man. And these are just the people made fun of here on The Dope. (I can’t beleive someone beat me to Terrifica!)
How 'bout our very own JD “Circumsions R NOT Us” T?
Would you count Phred Phelps? I think of him more as an @hole than a kook, but he is pretty far out.
Hey, I’m not saying we don’t have any nutjobs in the U.S. Heck, we’ve got one as our Attorney General. 
Maybe it’s a “grass is greener” thing, but it seems like the oddballs in the U.K. have this, I don’t know, this charming thing going on, that there’s a tradition of coming up with some offbeat obsession nobody’s thought of before and that doesn’t really hurt anybody. And, more importantly, these folks seem to know they’re a little off center. I mean, I can imagine an American crusader going from booted car to booted car with a heavy-duty cordless grinder, freeing people from what he sees as unfair and unjustified imprisonment. But here’s the thing: Angle-Grinder Man wears a costume when he does it. To me, that suggests he knows he’s already kind of out there, so he’s saying, hell, I might as well go all the way. Wheee!
Fred Phelps, by contrast, is just fucking insane, and wants to hurt people. Not eccentric. Not kooky. Fucking dangerously mental.
The best we can do, apparently, is the Peter Pan guy. Come on, Americans! Are we going to be left behind in this important cultural category? We shouldn’t shun and mock our goofballs, we should celebrate them!
Unless they’re in a clear plastic box hanging over a river. Then they deserve what they get. 