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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

I used to live across the street from a biker-clothes shop called Harley Butz.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 2 May 2004 06:33 (twenty years ago) link

I am compiling a mailing list of all schools in Northern Ireland at the moment and am alleviating the boredom by compiling a sublist of good names: Ballysally, Killaloo and Dunclug are my current top three. There is also a Scrogg Road.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 09:51 (twenty years ago) link

i'd like to visit freezywater in enfield sometime

believe me, you really wouldn't.

I've always had a soft spot from Frampton Cotterell.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 6 May 2004 09:54 (twenty years ago) link

'for' I mean.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 6 May 2004 09:55 (twenty years ago) link

I like "The Rest and be thankful", but that's more of a road than a place...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 6 May 2004 10:27 (twenty years ago) link

Singer (Scotland)

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

Also Kilmahog (a request?) and Whifflet (reminds me of a dog sniffing)

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:18 (twenty years ago) link

Best school ever: Bleary Primary School, Lurgan NI

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

Puerile but quite compelling:

http://places.jump-around.com/closest/

[UK ILXors only, presumably]

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 25 June 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Mousehole in Cornwall.

Very fond memories of a very pretty village.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 25 June 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Pleasant Plains
Velvet Ridge
Possum Grape
Dry Prong
Omaha

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Dry Tortugas.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

"The town on Cape Cod where I used to live: East Sandwich."

Ha! This is where I grew up (mostly).

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

LITTLE COMPTON

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha! This is where I grew up (mostly).

Did you like growing up there? My time on the Cape and nearby was mostly unpleasant, unfortunately. I also lived in Manomet and Pocasset briefly, and worked in Hyannis.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

But that was all while I was like, 17-20 years old, off and on, and longing either for the city life or the country life, not suburbia camouflaged as an expensive resort area. I was such a bitter teen.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Singer (Scotland)
-- Rumpy Pumpkin (the24hrsleepe...), May 6th, 2004 12:11 PM. (rumpypumpkin)

Singer is not a place name, it's a train station, named after a factory, which made sewing machines...dumbass!

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link

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