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When I taught freshman english, one of the kids in my class wrote the "make an argument/take a side" essay assignment on which state the Simpsons' Springfield was in. I think he was arguing it was in Kentucky. Or maybe NOT in Kentucky, I've forgotten.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

HEADCORN

― loggedoutvicar, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

my flatmate came to the conclusion that it was in kentucky, i think (apparently there was one comment about it bordering tennessee in the south)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

http://tinyurl.com/5p3ej

"Where do you live mate?". "Upper Ramsbottom".

Roffle! etc.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

on that same page of the map is Bacup, where they used to make Zip discs

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

And so is Oswaldtwistle, which is locally pronounced "ozzle-twizzle". That's another favourite. Rawtenstall's good too (it sounds more like Rotten-stall), and Cheesden, and Pendlebury, and Little Lever.

The north is great for place names.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

pleasington is good too. pleasing, if you would.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Yetts o'Muckhart

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, just a couple of sqaures away from the last map:

http://tinyurl.com/52p7r

Diggle! Which is where I used to go for my weekly Morris Dancing practice when I were a lad, believe it or not. Mossley's where I grew up.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Waikouaiti

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link

On a tour of the South we came across the rather unfortunately named "Blacks Run"

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Barnawatha.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Old Sodsbury

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Atholl is pretty good. As is Ware.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

OMG, how did I not know before that the capital of Bahrain is called Manama.

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link

Yalumlum

― Heave Ho, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link

COCKFOSTERS!

The first thing that came to mind was the first answer on this thread!

Place name once seen on a Chilean road sign: Peor es nada (Better than nothing).

― jim, Saturday, 8 December 2007 03:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Warsaw

― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 8 December 2007 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Sequim

― gabbneb, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:00 (sixteen years ago) link

MAN-A-MA! MAN-A-MA-OH-OH-OH-AH-AH!

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Big Bone Lick, KY for the win

― Euler, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link

The city of BATMAN, Turkey !!!

― JTS, Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link

Westward Ho!

Gotta love a place with an exclamation mark in its name.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Manama is like: Mon as in money,AA mah

― Heave Ho, Saturday, 8 December 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link

there's a restaurant here called Grumpy Dicks

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link

oconomowoc ot$

― Oilyrags, Saturday, 8 December 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link

Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard

― Heave Ho, Sunday, 9 December 2007 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link

McLeod Ganj
Crocodilopolis

Best names to roll round the mouth - Vanuatu & Guatemala, but to really milk Guatemala you need to go American and turn the t to d.

― ogmor, Sunday, 9 December 2007 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Squibnocket, Martha's Vineyard.

― gr8080, Sunday, 9 December 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link

three years pass...

The city of BATMAN, Turkey !!!

― JTS, Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:55 (3 years ago)

I just found this while idly surfing a world atlas on the bog. Awesome.

― acoleuthic, Saturday, 29 January 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-1361.png

― totally small truffles (Abbbottt), Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link

COCKFOSTERS reigns supreme

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link

Butt, Montana

― beer, beer, beer (Pillbox), Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link

I just random articled my way to Orroroo, South Australia.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Beeston Bump

― ogmor, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link

Blubberhouses

― ogmor, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link

Mevagissey.

Not least because it comes out something like "Mega-vizzy" when I try to say it.

― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link

Me vag is see

― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link

Wetwang

― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link

stranraer

― saer, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link

Humptulips, WA.

― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link

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