Two Ball Lonnen
Quaking Houses
Spital Tongues
Stony Heap
Beat that.
xoxo
― Norman Fay, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Bump, OR.
Bend, OR.
Berlin, CT. (It's not bur-LIN, it's BUR-lin. Huzzah.)
And, of course, Smallville, IN.
― David Raposa, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Maria, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Arthur, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Is that in New Hampshire?
― Dan Perry, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
NNNnnnngggg.....
I just remembered this interenting (well, I thought so, anyway) factlet that I saw on TV years ago, abt place names in N America. It referred to the opening of long-distance railways in either the US or Canada (it was on a long time ago, so I can't quite remember) Apparently towns built along the route of certain railways were named alphabetically -albany, belmont, cawthorn etc etc. Supposedly to this day, along certain stretches of track (or where track once was) the alphabetical naming still persists, tho' w/the odd gap where a town has failed. Absolutely of no concievable use, this knowledge, but somehow interesting and poignant (the missing alphabet letters, that is) IMO.
Anything in yr library referring to that, Ned, or web links, anyone?
― NorMaNFaY, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Blimey. First one without vowels.
― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― HE WHO TYPO-ES, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Bill, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Trevor, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Though travelling from Manchester to Sheffield, we did get three cars of Americans giggling over Peniston.
― kate, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Madchen, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(small isle N. of Scotland)
― DavidM, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(actually, I think Twat is the name of a town in an isle N. of Scotland)
― Pennysong Hanle y, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― emil.y, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Isn't there somewhere else in the north-east called Wide Open?
― Robin Carmody, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― nfaY, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Geoff, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Brainerd, MN (no brains, no nerds). My mother's house backs on to Minnehaha Creek. St Paul has Cretin High School.
and aND AND! I cannot believe the lack of mention for...
INTERCOURSE, Pennsylvania.
― suzy, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Billy Dods, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DavidM, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Toronto Acton
― jel, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Maria, my mum lives just West of Albany.
― kate, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― stevo, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
For real, see proof...
Picture taken two weeks ago in Quebec.
― Kim, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
To the smut list I add Brest in France and to the non-dirty, Pity Me in County Durham (I think) - the name is thought to be a derivation of Petit Mer.
― Madchen, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mandee Wright, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ian, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I've also always been partial Bydgoszcz (a city in Poland), Brno (in the Czech Republic), Ticklenaked Pond (in Vermont), and that old standby Lake Titicaca.
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― rainy, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
And I'm partial to Ur. Start minimal, always a good idea.
― Tom, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
You just can't get any cooler than that!
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Ardbeg is another oddball favourite.
Prettiest is Los Angeles.
― Kim, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― cabbage, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I liked the thing about Surbiton sounding futuristic. Surbitron?
― jamesmichaelward, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― your null fame, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Benjamin, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― aimurchie, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― 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
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