Favorite name of a geographic place-

[MiltonLeBerle]

I vote for two:

Big Assawoman Bay &
Little Assawoman Bay

Both found near Ocean City, Maryland...and yes, those are the real names.

[ewagner]

1. how 'bout

Two Egg, Florida?

[anti_shrub]

2. Best name ever:

Intercourse, PA.

[TXlib]

6. Dammit

You beat me to it.

:grr:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

31. Just down the road from there...

are Bird-in-Hand and Paradise. They're all Amish towns.

hmmmm...

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

3. Dime Box, TX

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/DD/hld25.html

[GOPisEvil]

30. My one, and so far only, speeding ticket was issued in Dime Box!

71 in a 55. x(

[XNASA]

4. Sugartit, Kentucky.

Sounds lovely.

[dolo amber]

76. Also in KY

Big Bone Lick State Park :evilgrin:

(and allegedly, near Hazzard, is a very small village called "Hell for Certain", but I can't confirm this...)

[carolinayellowdog]

5. Horneytown, NC

Climax is our second most memorable.

[TXlib]

7. Lake Titicaca

[LynneSin]

54. I break up laughing everytime I say that place

seriously

[Cush]

67. Oh Lake Titicaca

From "Animaniacs":

Oh Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca,
it's between Bolivia and Peru,
Oh Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca,
With waters so ???? and blue
Oh Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca,
Why do we sing of its fame?
Oh Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca,
Because we really like saying it's name!
Titicaca!

And of course, thats where The Great Cornholio is from.

[TlalocW]

8. Toad Suck

In Arkansas.

TlalocW

[frylock]

20. i have a toad suck ferry t-shirt..

made a special trip on a cross-country from DC to San Diego.

[usual_suspect]

9. Favorite Name

I used to live near Marys Nob in western North Carolina.

[murphymom]

10. Manteca, CA

Translated into English it means lard.

Another favorite is Alameda de las Pulgas, a major boulevard in the SF Bay Area, translates to Flea Street.

[CogitoErgoDem]

47. Like "Salida, Colorado"...

...you named your town "EXIT"?? :D

[Breezy du Nord]

11. Not a place, a name

Cruz Bustamente, the guy from CA has the FUNNEST name ever.

I have a thing about it, but it's just so fun to say. "Cruz Bustamente".

[sangha]

12. Scotrun, PA

Everybody thinks it says something else when they pass it.

[monkeyboy]

13. 2 places in California: Petaluma and Coalinga

Petaluma: What the heck is a luma, and why would anybody want to pet one?

Coalinga: A town named after a sex act?

[CogitoErgoDem]

49. Hate to disappoint you, but Coalinga = Coaling (station) "A"

Old railroad term - one of the places the Southern Pacific picked up their coal for the steam locomotives...

I know, pretty mundane. I liked the "sex act" explanation better.

Richardo <--- former railroad ape

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Hell, Michigan

n/t

[5thGenDemocrat]

16. I had cold beer in Hell about a month ago

Michigan has both a Hell and a Paradise, a Romulus and a Remus, a South Branch, North Branch and West Branch. Climax is near Kalamazoo and Crump is about 20 miles north of me.
John
And the high school teams in Brown City are the Green Devils.
ON EDIT: South Branch is the farthest north and North Branch is the farthest south. And West Branch is east of South Branch. Go fig.

[MiltonLeBerle]

62. There's a Hell post office on Grand Cayman

when we were there, the old guy that worked the souvnier stand was dressed in a devil costume.

(btw- these aren't my pics)

[Aristus]

15. Humptulips, Washington.

So THAT'S where baby tulips come from! :-)

[frylock]

17. bong recreation area..

in Kenosha, WI.

[Aristus]

21. Named after Richard Bong, WWII Ace, no doubt.

His nickname was "Bing"

What would it be if he were alive today?

[frylock]

26. waterpipe?!

[SPICYHOT]

69. I like that one!

please some???

[MiltonLeBerle]

37. That sign has been stolen a number of times

just like all the "High St." signs that have been swiped many times in many towns.

[5thGenDemocrat]

77. I'm crapping you negative

In Saginaw, Good and High streets parallel each other (they're only a block long).
John

[StopTheMorans]

18. saw this when I was driving through Washington State 4 yrs ago,

couldn't believe my eyes:

WHISKEYDICK MOUNTAIN


(don't believe me, google it:)

[kmla]

19. French Lick, Indiana

Home town of Larry Bird!

[noonwitch]

22. Climax, MI

We've got some great ones in the great lake state. Hell, Paradise, Climax, Bitely, Nirvana, and Bliss, to name a few.

[SiobhanClancy]

23. How about these?

http://effingpot.com/fun/rude.html

[SOteric]

24. Wetwang, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK

http://www.ukvillages.co.uk/UKVillages.nsf/b?open&ref=UKVillages.A9227177D4CC481280256922002E31AF

[greatauntoftriplets]

25. Muleshoe, Texas

You can find it on a map of West Texas. Kinda between Amarillo and Lubbock.

[AntiBushRepub]

27. I can't top anything here...

But I laughed my ass off at that Bong Recreation Area sign....

People nearby think I'm crazy for sitting over here laughing out loud all by myself at this thread...

There's really in Intercourse, PA?

That's too funny...

-An

[Lurking Dem]

28. Intercourse is halfway

between Bird-In-Hand and Paradise.

I kid you not.

How about French Lick, Indiana?

[GOPisEvil]

29. Woman Hollering Creek (Texas, of course, nt)

[JCMach1]

32. Climax, GA

:)

[The Lone Liberal]

33. Tierra Del Fuego

Since I didn’t pass Spanish, my translation may be off a bit, but I think that means “The World is Asleep and doesn’t want to be disturbed, unless it is Bush wanting to resign.”

[SPICYHOT]

70. That was hillarious!!!

I like your translation, since I'm learning english that is gonna help to my future translations

[HootieMcBoob]

34. PA has a lot of good ones

I think there's a place near Intercourse, PA called Blue Ball :)

My sister lives in Prosperity, PA which is near Pancake, PA which is near 84, PA, which is near Lover, PA which is near Mars, PA which is near Slippery Rock, PA.

And you gotta love Truth or Consequences, NM :P

I think I saw a sign in Oregon a few weeks ago for Ecola Beach. I didn't stop there though. I know there's a Slaughter Beach in Delawar but I've never stopped there either.

[goobergunch]

42. It's Blue Bell (n/t)

[Bridget Burke]

35. Cut'N Shoot, TEXAS

Just east of Conroe, which is just north of Houston.

www.earlytexasfamilies.com/towns/cutnshoot/

[GOPisEvil]

36. Foxy just moved from there to NC - nt

[AntiBushRepub]

38. Can't remember what state..

Somewhere there's a town called Funk.

Probably a town where everyone can dance real good...

Anyway, if anyone needs me, I'll be on the road on my way from Blue Balls, PA to Intercourse, PA.

-An

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. Cockeysville and Scaggsville come to mind...

Both are towns in MD.

Love the Native American names for things...Chicamacomico River, Massanutten Mountain, Wachapreague, VA. What a shame that's the only remnant of many of the cultures that thrived in the area.

[KamaAina]

52. I actually grew up in Cockeysville

Make of this what you will: Our phone prefix (then in the 301 area code) was...

666.

:evilgrin:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

72. LOL! I'll bet that prefix is history...

Or else there are a bunch of cockey li'l devils there...

[VermontDem2004]

40. Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, Arizona

sorry, just a little hyped up for College Football this year.

[Mr. McD]

41. Wankers Corner OR

[Braden]

43. Cheesequake New Jersey

[Cheswick2.0]

44. there is a town near me called Hop Bottom

and East Lemon is just down the road.

[BritishHuman]

45. On the way to my mother's house

I pass the turnoff for Pink Green.

That always makes me smile.

And searching http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form for rude words is always fun.

[geniph]

46. Humptulips

which is on the Washington peninsula near La Push, La Poel, Chimacum, and Sequim - so as one of my brothers used to put it: "ooh, I know how to Humptulips - you La Push, La Poel until you Chimacum, then you get Sequim all over the place."

[Eat_The_Rich]

48. Minnesota Names

Askov (as in "I'm freezing my Askov")
Embarrass (no explanation needed)

[Eat_The_Rich]

50. More Minnesota Names

Two towns in Northern Minnesota, Remer and Aitkin. The story goes, "You have to get to Aitkin before you get to Remer."

[NightTrain]

51. Intercourse, Pennsylvania

And its world-famous college, Fuck U!

[KamaAina]

53. Dry Prong, LA

central part of the state...

Dry Prong. Ouch.

[KamaAina]

55. Pe'epe'e Falls Road on the Big Island of Hawai'i

Very important: the 'okina, represented by an ', means a glottal stop, like in the middle of "uh-oh" (or "Trenton" or "New Britian" if you're from back East).

So, the road name is supposed to be pronounced "PAY-ay-PAY-ay".

Thing is, back in the day, the counties didn't bother to put 'okinas on their road signs...

:-)

[MiltonLeBerle]

61. Speaking of the Big Island-

what's the deal with those frogs from Puerto Rico? I had heard that they had been having some big-time problems in some areas.
My wife and I have been thinking about retirement on the Big Isle for quite awhile, and have been there a number of times- One of our all-time favourite scuba dives is still the Manta Ray Madness night dive.
I was a "migrant farm-worker" of sorts ;-) there in the early 80's, and even lived in a rental in Kalapana in that had spectacular views of the fire fountains at night, and a really great Queen's bath that wasn't too far away- it was a shame what Pele did to the town...
But anyway-
what's the deal with those frogs?
Also- I had also heard that there had been more rumblings on the kona side in recent years- is there any concern about any kind of eruption over there in the future?
The Big Island rocks.

[KamaAina]

65. Coqui frogs are really only a big-time problem by our standards

where even on O'ahu, the lead story today was a health insurance rate hike.

Only a few places have THAT many of them, we're working on ways to control them (like caffeine spray), and some people actually LIKE the noise (like crickets chirping, say).

Earlier in the year there was some speculation that Mauna Loa might go off again (hasn't since 1984). It's much farther from populated ares than Kilauea, though; it'd be a while before we'd be facing "Kalapana II".

Come on over! We could sure use more Dems here (Big Island also has an active Green party if that's your bag).

[masslib]

56. Ouagadougou

It has lots of vowels and I like the sound.

[stlsaxman]

66. Bala Cynwyd, PA

the only vowel is A if you consider Y a constinent.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

73. I aways liked Ouagadougou too!

:-)

[TrogL]

57. Dreadful Valley

where I live

[fishnfla]

58. Dildo Key fla

[CBHagman]

59. Athol Springs, NY

A friend of mine used to pronounce it Athol Thprings. I snicker every time I think of it.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

74. I've driven by Athol Road...

I wonder who'd want to live on a street with a name like that...

[amberdisc]

60. Pratts Bottom

is a village in Kent, England.
:)

[markses]

63. Fishes Eddy, NY

Just love saying it...

[Nailzberg]

64. Bong State Recreational Area in WI

What a name for a state park, huh?


edit: damn, now I scan the list and see it's already been done.
Oh well.

My second choice is Show Low, AZ. A town named after a card game, that's my kinda people.

[marigold20]

68. Two Dot, Montana

.

[Regice]

71. Paradise, CA

It is a hellhole.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

75. Here's a mouthful...

Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnop- paratrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsa-thitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit

It's a village in Thailand.

[VOX]

78. Brown Willy (Cornwall, UK), or Tarzan, Texas...

also:
Frankenstein, Missouri
Ben Hur, California

[sasquatch]

79. Big Bone Lick Kentucky State Park

everytime come back from the south I die laghing looking at that.

[Pert_UK]

80. Bell End and Lickey End......both in the UK..Isn't Bumblefuck in the US?

Some more from http://www.lifeisajoke.com/miscellaneous57_html.htm:

Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)
Bastard (Norway)
Beaver (Oklahoma, USA)
Beaver Head (Idaho, USA)
Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)
Chinaman's Knob (Australia)
Climax (Colorado, USA)
Cunt (Spain)
Cunter (Switzerland)
Dikshit (India)
Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada)
Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border)
Dongo (Congo - Democratic Republic)
Fuku (Shensi, China)
Fukue (Honshu, Japan)
Fukui (Honshu, Japan)
Fukum (Yemen)
Hold With Hope (Greenland)
Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)
Little Dix Village (West Indies)
Lord Berkeley's Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)
Middle Intercourse Island (Australia)
Muff (Northern Ireland)
Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)
Pis Pis River (Nicaragua)
Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)
Seymen (Turkey)
Shafter (California, USA)
Shag Island (Indian Ocean)
Shitlingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)
Tittybong (Australia)
Tong Fuk (Japan)
Turdo (Romania)
Twatt (Orkney, UK)
Wank (Germany)
Wankendorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Wankener (India)
Wankie (Zimbabwe)
Wankie Colliery (Zimbabwe)
Wanks River (Nicaragua)
Wankum (Germany)
Wet Beaver Creek (Australia)

[ornotna]

81. Here's one

Maggie's Nipples (Wyoming, USA)

[Blecht]

82. Felch, MI

"Home of the Felch Rangers!"

http://www.upclics.org/felcht/home.htm

[arwalden]

83. "Dildo Newfoundland" and "Fucking, Austria"