# when you come from a place with a pseudo-embarassing name... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009 "2005-08-21T18:48:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/1 "2005-08-21T18:48:05Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/2 "2005-08-21T18:52:26Z")
Clymer, PA. “What’s the easiest way to Clymer?” “Up her leg.” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/3 "2005-08-21T18:54:33Z")
which reminds me - I forgot to mention that we also have a town called Climax. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/4 "2005-08-21T19:02:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/5 "2005-08-21T19:06:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/6 "2005-08-21T19:08:14Z")
I think [Newfoundland](http://www.aroundthebay.ca/profile/Dildo/dil.asp) 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. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/7 "2005-08-21T19:25:39Z")
Moorehead? ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/8 "2005-08-21T19:35:05Z")
I live in a tiny town called Bagdad, which has made for a seemingly unending series of lame jokes over the past few years. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/9 "2005-08-21T19:42:47Z")
Long ago, I noticed that “Tulsa” spelled backwards is “a slut.” ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/10 "2005-08-21T19:57:19Z")
Girls at school used to get a lot of flak if they were from Beaver Harbour. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/11 "2005-08-21T20:18:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/12 "2005-08-21T21:08:05Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > 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… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/13 "2005-08-21T21:27:29Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > 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. Not to mention-isn’t Intercourse up in Amish country? ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/14 "2005-08-21T21:53:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/15 "2005-08-21T22:54:40Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Not to mention-isn’t Intercourse up in Amish country? Yep. I live in Lancaster. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/16 "2005-08-21T23:04:04Z")
Murfreesboro. Imagine the comversation– **Me: Im’m from Murfreesboro.** _Them: Murphy’s Borough?_ \*\*Me: No, M_U_R_F_R_E_E_S_B_O_R\*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: ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/17 "2005-08-22T00:43:49Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Girls at school used to get a lot of flak if they were from Beaver Harbour. 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. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/18 "2005-08-22T01:44:30Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/19 "2005-08-22T04:36:41Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > 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. I can vouch for you, 'cause I’ve got the T-shirt. I’ve got an aunt that lives in Coatesville. > [@AugestWest](#): > > I live in a tiny town called Bagdad, which has made for a seemingly unending series of lame jokes over the past few years. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009/20 "2005-08-22T05:02:52Z")
Two of my favorites are Spread Eagle, Wisconsin and Gay, Michigan. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-come-from-a-place-with-a-pseudo-embarassing-name/318009.md?page=2)