I was at a convention last week and got chatting with a guy from Ireland. We both did the nametag-glance thing. He said: “you’re from … Regeeena?” I said “yes, but it’s pronounced ‘Regina’.’” (See my location tag.) He said, “hmm - wondered if that was how to pronounce it, but was afraid it sounded rather … suggestive.”
Of course, we flatlanders never even think about it, but I’ve heard comments along those lines before.
Anyone else come from a place with a suggestive name?
Clymer, PA.
“What’s the easiest way to Clymer?”
“Up her leg.”
which reminds me - I forgot to mention that we also have a town called Climax.
I was born at Seymour Johnson AFB in North Carolina.
You try telling people that, and see how many people believe that it’s a real name. Honestly.
This reminds me of the movie Muriel’s Wedding (one of my all-time faves) and how she tells people she’s from Porpoise Spit.
I think Newfoundland wins the title for suggestive placenames in Canada. How the hell do people manage to get up in the morning there without giggling for an hour?
I was born in Chilliwack, which you really have to stretch to make suggestive. Oh well.
Moorehead?
I live in a tiny town called Bagdad, which has made for a seemingly unending series of lame jokes over the past few years.
Long ago, I noticed that “Tulsa” spelled backwards is “a slut.”
Girls at school used to get a lot of flak if they were from Beaver Harbour.
I live not 20 miles from two towns called Intercourse and Blue Ball. If you go from Blue Ball through Intercourse, you’ll eventually come to Paradise.
I shit you not.
Hah, that is funny!
At the risk of being pedantic, most people who get a kick out of the town name of Intercourse, just don’t know the actual definition of the word. It is NOT named “Sexual Intercourse” with which it is confused. There ain’t nothing sexual about the word “intercourse” itself, but it’s probably too late to change opinions now.
Years ago the army, I heard the beautiful poem that goes:
I’ve got the clap, the syph
And the blue balls too,
The clap don’t hurt,
But the blue balls do.
Better quit quickly… 
Not to mention-isn’t Intercourse up in Amish country?
My mother was from Okahumpka, FL. Try explaining to your classmates where you spent the summer. Better yet, try spelling it in your “where I spent my summer vacation” essay.
Yep. I live in Lancaster.
Murfreesboro.
Imagine the comversation–
Me: Im’m from Murfreesboro.
Them: Murphy’s Borough?
**Me: No, MURFREESBOR*O.
**
Them: Where’s that?
Tennessee.
Are you certain you spelled that right?
Spelling the name of the town I live in make me sound like an illiterate hillbilly. :mad:
I don’t know since I’ve never met anybody from there, much less girls, but every time I drive up the NY State Thruway, I pass a town called “Coxsackie” and wonder what the denizens are called.
Well, probably as a defense mechenism, the place is actually pronounced COOK-SOCKEE.
I can vouch for you, 'cause I’ve got the T-shirt. I’ve got an aunt that lives in Coatesville.
If you’re in Arizona, I lived in Prescott for 4 1/2 years, and had a friend that claimed to have “landed a plane in Bagdad”. The joke got older every five minutes he told it.
Tripler
But then again, I’ve seen my fair share of dopey-named towns.
Two of my favorites are Spread Eagle, Wisconsin and Gay, Michigan.