Wierd City Names

Gananoque Ontario. Small touristy town on the ST. Lawrence river across from Alexandria Bay NY.

There’s a place in NZ called Waiauai. And another which escapes me at present with eight consecutive vowels. And we are also proud owners of the world’s longest place name. (Which again escapes me.) It translates something along the lines of The place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who ate drank climbed and swallowed mountains, played his flute to his loved one.
More knowledgeable minds can correct my badly butchered translation.

We have a few good ones here in Idaho:

Picabo- It’s pronounced “peek-a-boo”, not “Pih-CAW-bo” or “Pick a bow”. This is the town after which the skier Picabo Street is supposedly named.
Athol- It sounds like someone with a lisp insulting someone.
I’ve never heard of Lower Fannys Hole around here, though.

There’s also a Lime in eastern Oregon, but I don’t think anybody lives there. All that’s there now is a defunct cement processing plant (a new facility was built up the highway a few miles).

With all these funny city names, it makes me feel kind of bland for living here in Normal, IL. Of course, if I ever get tired of hanging around here, I can go out Towanda (IL).

And the home of pitcher Bill Voiselle, proud bearer of #96.

Didn’t someting infamous happen there, on the order of In Cold Blood, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre or Lizzy Borden?

**Hicksville NY ** Who would want to live in Hicksville? ‘Hi, I’m from Hicksville.’

Other towns I could not say I was from include, (but not limited to0

Fishkill NY

**Bow Legs OK

Coxsackie NY **

I grew up less than five miles south of Calcium, NY (which got a post office for the first time a few years ago!), and my dad kept his boat in the Town of Lyme several summers. And now we live about 11 miles from Lizard Lick, NC, which has the most interesting boosters club you ever saw – it’s a small crossroads just north of Wendell (named for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ middle name, also a bizarre choice!), with a town hall that doubles as the sales office for a used car lot, an old semitrailer designated as Lizard Lick U., an outhouse-sized building (complete with crescent on door) with a sign which indicates that it’s the main offices for WLIZ-TV… It’s a truly fun place to go through. Georgia Pacific’s NC offices are located there, and it was, a few years ago, the site for the world premiere of a Yoshii video game, Yoshii being a lizard that gets points by snagging things with his tongue, you see.

Apparent hometown to many transient board members (transient by choice of the Mods., not themselves) is Trollhattan, Sweden, a real place.

The capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, always struck me as an intriguing name.

Just north of Midland, Ontario, is Penetanguishene, and a suburb of Kingston is Ganonoque, pronounced GAN-nah-KNOCK-way. Up on James Bay is Moose Factory, across the river from Moosonee, and a few miles south of Attawapiskat.

Newfoundland has an island named Joe Batt’s Arm, and the town of Cow Head (pop. ~650).

Maine has the memorable Lake Mooselookmeguntic, and Manitoba Lake Winnipegosis, which sounds like a disease you contract from living in the Prairie Provinces too long!

Saskatchewan, besides Moose Jaw, has Buffalo Narrows, Carrot River, Flin Flon, and Fort Qu’Appelle (which I think translates as Fort Whatchamacallit).

But my favorite place name is one I saw only once, on a newspaper map of North Vietnam during the latter stages of the Vietnam War: Phuc Yeu! :slight_smile:

There’s a place in Co. Donegal called Muff. If you google it you can find ‘Inside Information In Muff’, ‘Things To Do And See In Muff’ and countless other wittisisms.

dino (She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed) is from a place called Bekan (pronounced Bacon) in County Mayo.

A friend of mine named these towns in New Jersey :

Sweetman, Loveladies, Cheesequake, Ongs Hat, Ho-Ho-Kus and
Dutch Neck.

We have ofcourse: Broek in Waterland & Broek op Langedijk [Pants[trousers] in Waterland & Pants on Longdyke]

Some more Aussie ones:
Tom Ugly’s Point, The Vale of Ah, Seventeen Seventy, Four By Twenty, Putty, Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, The Nut, Dee Why, Nobby’s Head, Dondingalong, Rum Jungle, Dark Corner, O.B.X Creek, Nuriootpa…

And Flin Flon, of course, has the Canadian government’s legendary “marijuana mines”. Prairie Plant Systems is contracted to grow medical marijuana for those people who have the appropriate possession license.

Here in Nevada we have:
-Roach (nothing there anymore)
-Jackpot
-Wendover (which everyone calls ‘bendover’)
-Eureka
-Hussey (An old mining town form the early 1900’s)
-Basic
-Gerlach (grow lots of garlic here)
-Weed Heights
-Divide
-Gabbs
-Metallic City
-Pinto

…just to name a few

Well, if you’re bringing up the Dutch -kills, you can’t forget Catskill. And Coxsackie (I used to live right across the river from it; could see their lights at night, but never drove there) isn’t as amusing when you hear it out loud - it’s just pronounced Cook-socky.

We used to go fishing near a town called Fairdealing, KY. And there’s Friendship, WI too.

Ohio is proud to own a Pee Pee Township.

There are two small towns in IL pressed close together called Plano, Sandwich.

TheLoadedDog, Oh, how I’d love to live in a town called ‘Dondingalong’. Beats Prozac, imho. :slight_smile:

West Virginia has “Looneyville” and “Left Hand”. They are both in Roane County, north of I-79. I used to drive through “Knockemstiff”, Ohio. It’s just south of Chillicothe.

I can’t believe that I get to be the first one to mention Big Bone Lick, KY. Boy, does that one sound X-rated.

I’ve been to some of the cities mentioned here. Spent a night in Batchawana Bay, ON. Made a point of taking a picture in Kaaawa, HI…also in Aiea, the only city in the US without a consonant. (perhaps it could do one of those “sister city” deals with a city in Central Europe that has no vowel?)