Most Unusual Name of a Town You Know

Every State or Nation Has Them

[King_Fisher]

Taking a clue from Essex Boy Lets have a list of the most
unusual named towns you know of.

Here's my three.

Blue Balls, Pa.
Smackover, Ark
Kickapoo, La (name of a local Indian tribe)Also made famous
by the old"Little Abner" comic strip. (Kickapoo Joy Juice!)

Next!

[ronin]

There's a town in southeastern Turkey (Turkish Kurdistan) called Batman [en.wikipedia.org].

And another in northern Poland called Hel [en.wikipedia.org].

I missed my chance the last time I was in Gdansk, but you can take the train to Hel and back.

[travelin cat]

weed, CA

[LifeinAsia]

Boring, Oregon

Do a Google search for "Boring Oregon" and you can easily spot the dynamically generated title tags. I mean, who would purposely title their page "Boring Real Estate Agents, Boring Homes For Sale,..." or my favorite: "Boring Vacations ¦ Away.com"

[lawman]

Santa Claus, Indiana [google.com]

[lawman]

Christmas, Florida [google.com]

[lawman]

Climax [google.com] is in South Georgia. I don't even want to mention the name of the city in Forsyth County Georgia.

[King_Fisher]

The old Bob Hope joke, "the town they loved so well they
named it twice!"

Walla Walla, Washington

[King_Fisher]

Lawman, Here is a town to go with your Climax Ga.

Intercourse, Penn.

[johnafrid]

Daboolay, Pakistan tribal areas
and I got a customer from Poland with the name Kiss.

[pageoneresults]

And another in northern Poland called Hel.

Michigan has you beat with the correct spelling...

Hell, Michigan

Others...

Bummerville, California
You Bet, California
Buttzville, New Jersey
Love Ladies, New Jersey (my favorite spot)

[King_Fisher]

The biggest turn off name?

Toad Suck, Arkansas

I think it was named after a local pastry?!

[encyclo]

How about here [google.com]? For a Canadian entry, maybe here [google.com]? ;)

[giggle]

There's always Truth or Consequences, NM [torcnm.us]

[deejay]

Towns.. bound to have a few here in New Zealand I guess.. I just can't recall them off-hand.

Places in general, well them we got.

The Tutaekuri River runs just a few miles from here. Kuri is the Maori word for dog, and tutae means sh... umm.. excrement. It's literally the dog poo river. And yeah, it often runs a bit brown.

My guy went hunting in the Urewera mountain ranges - a huge national park here - a couple of months ago. I just learnt last week that Urewera is Maori for 'burnt male body part that rhymes with venus'. Yum.

[jsinger]

Peculiar, Missouri

Truth Or Consequences NM is named after the old U.S. TV game show. Originally called Hot Springs, it changed its name in 1950.

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Any city yet with a web-derived name?

[gamiziuk]

Mercury, Nevada
Venus, Texas
Mars, Pennsylvania
Jupiter, Florida
Neptune, New Jersey
Pluto, West Virginia

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH (Wales)

Little Snoring and Great Snoring (England)

Peterhead (Scotland)

[King_Fisher]

BeeDee,

What does the Wales name mean?

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I haven't a clue. I'm a Jock, perhaps some of the taffs could help?

[le_gber]

LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
...
What does the Wales name mean?

The name is Welsh for "St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave"

src wikipedia [en.wikipedia.org]

[jecasc]

#*$!ing, Austria

[ananova.com...]

Graham Norton enquiring at the Austrian Tourist Board about the town:
[youtube.com...]

[edited by: lawman at 3:26 pm (utc) on April 24, 2007]

[rocknbil]

In addition to Boring we also have Drain, Oregon.

We have a whole county named Humbug.

At the mouth of the Coumbia River you will find Cape Dissapointment (WA side).

There is also the puzzling little town called Riddle, Oregon, the answer is most surely 42.

The only thing really interesting about Christmas Valley, OR is that it's in the middle of the biggest most desolate desert in Oregon.

[King_Fisher]

There is a small community near New Orleans

called " Fat City " It has a lot of good restaurants there.

But I think the name has something to with the Mardi Gras

and Lent!?

[HelenDev]

I believe there's a small village in the Bristol/Gloucester area (UK) called Catbrain...

[Essex_boy]

Grunty Fen, on the errr fens.

Saw a road in Raunds, northamptonshire called Titty Hoe.

Nearly crashed laughing.

Ugly in Essex.

[rocker]

Medicine Hat and Moose Jaw in Canada

[curlykarl]

Just up the road from me we have a place called Clowne [en.wikipedia.org]

And we have some customers in Twatt [en.wikipedia.org]

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Ugly in Essex.

Yes. Apparently Ugley is near a place called Nasty and there was once a local newspaper headline that read. "Nasty man weds Ugley woman". :)

Troooo!

[edited by: lawman at 3:28 pm (utc) on April 24, 2007]

[oldpro]

Climax is in South Georgia. I don't even want to mention the name of the city in Forsyth County Georgia.

slang for "climax"

There is a Santa Claus, Georgia also.