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It means "Spitting Devil" in old Dutch, which makes it even better. Because it's right by Hells Gate, the most tretcherous body of water in NYC (where the East River, Hudson River and Long Island Sound meet).

uh, no it's not

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

Puducah

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago) link

probably Bratislava

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago) link

Ponsonby,
also Foulridge
Many of you are to be found in these locatiaaaaaaaaaaannssss

― zenome kistachion, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:59 (twenty years ago) link

Chelsea, of course....

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link

Adamant, Vermont, which is pronounced as: Adam Ant. It's a ways up the road (truthfully) from Ticklenaked Pond.

In Manchester, NH, there's a Come Street.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:44 (twenty years ago) link

Somewhere in australia theres a place called Woodenbong.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 April 2004 04:42 (twenty years ago) link

Splott

― mei (mei), Thursday, 8 April 2004 06:27 (twenty years ago) link

I was at a junior hockey game, and they announced the results from around the league.. Red Deer 3 > Moose Jaw 2 made me so happy.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 8 April 2004 06:34 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Names of some villages and hamlets south of Auxerre in Burgundy, France:

Orgy, Merry, Misery, Anus, Fancy, Fly, Riot, Gland and Pisy.

I had to check this for a journlist once. I'd forgotten all about it until I was on holday there and we found ourselves driving through Anus.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago) link

Hummuli

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago) link

Meat Camp, North Carolina

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago) link

New Zealand
and
Aukland

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago) link

COCKFOSTERS!

Last time I was in London, a friend and I made a series of rude, entirely drunken remarks on the Tube about getting one's Cockfosters in another's Mudchute. Oh how we laughed.o

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago) link

I like Djibouti

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

George, WA
Snow Shoe, PA
What Cheer, IA

― mike a, Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago) link

Phuket, Thailand

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 29 April 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago) link

Eupora, MS

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 29 April 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

Though travelling from Manchester to Sheffield, we did get three cars of Americans giggling over Peniston.

Did America Online give them the same hassle they made over Scunthorpe?

In the meantime, in Northern Virginia there's Backlick Road. And how have we gotten this far without French Lick, IN?

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 29 April 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link

Short Pump, VA.

― Richmond, Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

Elephant Butte, NM

― Verbalish, Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

Can we do streets?
Salubrious Passage, Swansea.

― Dorien Thomas (Dorien Thomas), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

bnw!!!! that is where i have a lot of family!!!! for reals that is so wild that you even know where that is!!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link

arcadia

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago) link

The highlight of any visit to my Arkansas relatives is passing through Cooter, Missouri.

― briania, Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link

Foggy Bottom, DC

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link

Difficult, TN is a classic.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

Midwest division:

Liberal, KS
Normal, IL

― mike a, Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

Eupora Mississippi?! God knows I did my time hotfooting through there on my many Starkville <-> Oxford trips.

others: Bucksnort, TN & Turkey Scratch, AK.

― Will (will), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago) link

oh! Turkeytown and Turtletown, TN

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

gyagxor, i know where it is but my love for it stems from some richard buckner sad bastard lyrics:

'Austin are you calling
Atlanta are you there
Eupora are you dreaming
That you saw my darling dear'

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 29 April 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

BerlinÃ³

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 29 April 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

Abu Dhabi

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 30 April 2004 00:37 (twenty years ago) link

adam and eve court, london

well yes they did.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 30 April 2004 06:53 (twenty years ago) link

Novi Sad :

A city of northern Yugoslavia on the Danube River northwest of Belgrade. It became a free city of Austria-Hungary in 1748 and was the center of a Serbian literary revival in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Population: 178,896.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:33 (twenty years ago) link

And one for Ken:

StoKENCHUrch.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:36 (twenty years ago) link

Strathbungo (as heard in the Bachelor Pad song "do it for fun")

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:47 (twenty years ago) link

Broadbottom in Derbyshire always gies me a laugh. As does Maidenhead in Kent(I think). The last time I was there I found a road in Accrington called Nutter Street.

― Jason Anthony Powell (Stone Monkey), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago) link

My favourite street name is Whip-ma-whop-ma-gait in York.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:18 (twenty years ago) link

No!

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago) link

there's a place in north yorkshire called Nob End.

― matthew james (matthew james), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:05 (twenty years ago) link

crossmyloof

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:19 (twenty years ago) link

have we mentioned Licking County, Ohio?

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago) link

i'd like to visit freezywater in enfield sometime

― prima fassy (mwah), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link

There's a Little Willey in Warwickshire.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

And my favourite street name has to be Kit Kat Terrace in Bow.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago) link

Around here, we also have Holey Moley Road and Phil Ochs Drive, but, alas, no Lake Tittikaka.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 2 May 2004 02:47 (twenty years ago) link

BANGKOK

― JaXoN (JasonD), Sunday, 2 May 2004 02:56 (twenty years ago) link

Ouch !

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 2 May 2004 03:26 (twenty years ago) link

um, why do I not live on Phil Ochs Drive?

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 2 May 2004 03:45 (twenty years ago) link

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