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I also forgot to mention a vital point, that the exclamation marks in 'St Louis Du Ha! Ha!' are NOT an embellishment.

Ardbeg is another oddball favourite.

Prettiest is Los Angeles.

― Kim, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

There's an air force base called Moron in Southern Spain according to today's Guardian.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can't believe that Robin didn't mention Shitterton. I think Westward ho! has a little charm to it too.

― cabbage, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nork (Nork related fact: in my bedroom, I have a massive A-Z map of London and my idiot brother and his lovely wife and I used to spend ages looking for places with funny names. Nork won)

I liked the thing about Surbiton sounding futuristic. Surbitron?

― jamesmichaelward, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

in new jersey:
creme ridge
mount holly
fresh kills
ong's hat
egg harbor
mahwah
ho-ho-kus
rancocas woods
shellpile
cheesequake
zarephath

― your null fame, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Spuyten Duyvil, a section of Riverdale in the Bronx.

― Benjamin, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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). Sorry I know so much about it, my ex's band used to be on a label named after it.

― kate, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

not East River Pipe? i'm afraid i don't know any other bands on that label.

― gareth, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jim Thorpe? Named after the great pre-WW1 pent/dec-athlete?

There's a Ha-Ha Road on the Woolwich/Plumstead border.

I've always like Uttoxeter.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

We'd always pass by BUCKSNORT Texas on the way to my grandparents' place in Fort Worth.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

East River Pipe are on Spuyten Duyvil?!? Good god, when they turn into a real label? Erm... no. You've never heard of the band, they were a fairly crap 60s garage/psych outfit called the Half Wits, I mean, the Half Breeds. (I think the Half Wits would be a much better name for a 60s garage punk band, don't you?)

― kate, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

So have I, Mike. But it isn't my favourite National Hunt racecourse place name. That'd be Wincanton or Cartmel.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two years pass...

There's a town in the Czech Republic called Pistov. I think that would get my vote.

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:36 (twenty years ago) link

Most of my favourites have been taken already (incidentally, to settle discussion upthread, it's Twatt, and it's on Orkney), but no-one has mentioned Rest and Be Thankful which is halfway up the West Highland Way.

I also like really Scottish sounding placenames like Acharacle and Ballachulish.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

Westward Ho!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

In Wisconsin, I like Oconomowoc and Wauwatosa. And Kinnickinnick, which is a street.
I also love Florala, Alabama. It's fun to say.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link

I've always wanted to visit Scrabster in Wick - the name fascinates me. Can't say the same about Nasty though, a village in England.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:54 (twenty years ago) link

Zeal Monachorum

Piddle Trenthyde (sp?)

I have a soft spot for Budleigh Salterton

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:57 (twenty years ago) link

Scrabster isn't in Wick. It's just outside Thurso. It's got nothing but a ferry terminal and a "lovely" view of Dounreay.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:57 (twenty years ago) link

penge

― tom carter (tomc), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago) link

I've only been up as far as Skye. My geography ends there. But i still want to meet a Scrab.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.kolumbus.fi/tommi.oksanen/fos99/img/hi-res/scrabster.jpg

It's horrible (my brother used to live in Thurso)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:19 (twenty years ago) link

Is that the best postcard you could find? Don't diss Thurso.

Oh yeah! Diss.

And Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantisiliogogogoch. (From memory!)

Welsh place-names in Pennsylvania, huh? Funny, we've got Pennsylvania ones in Wales too.

In my area there's a Jacob's Ladder (a very steep grassy hill) which leads up to Paddy's Well, and a Shaunie's Pond. As a child I often wondered if Paddy and Shaunie knew each other, and whether they invited Jacob to their parties.

A couple of Valleys over, there's a Cape of Scotland. Puzzled me for some time till I found out it was an anglicisation of the Welsh "Cae Pysgotlyn", meaning "Field of the Fishpond". Kind of prosaic, but Cape of Scotland is nice.

― Dorien Thomas (Dorien Thomas), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago) link

people giggle when i say i'm from kalamazoo.

another juvenile-funny place near detroit is big beaver road. which is exit 69. har har har.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link

moose factory, ontario

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

High school football games against the Beavers of Beaver Dam were usually massively entertaining. But I don't think anything can beat Moose Factory.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

What, no love for Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, Alberta? Or Dildo, Newfoundland?

― sean c via cell, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link

Aw, is Moose Factory a joke?

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

Woolloloomoo in Australia.

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

yes¡ in nsw¡

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

New Invention (somewhere near Birmingham)
Mavis Enderby (a village in Lincolnshire)
Theddlethorpe All Saints (ditto)
Roseberry Topping (a hill in North Yorkshire)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:31 (twenty years ago) link

I have a particularly place in my heart for Foul Ness.

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:00 (twenty years ago) link

Ooh, that reminds me of another two: the promontaries either side of the mouth of the Humber. Spurn Head and Donna Nook.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:12 (twenty years ago) link

Spurn Head just sounds dirty. As does the Hern Head in NYC.

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:14 (twenty years ago) link

Show Low, Arizona--named due to gambling.
There's also a Bucksnort, TN, where my mom got stuck once due to car trouble.
Loveland, Colorado.
Braintree, MA--I always picture this literally.
The town on Cape Cod where I used to live: East Sandwich.
and of course Texarkana, my ancestral home.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:15 (twenty years ago) link

spurn head is unbelievably bleak, we did a geography field trp to there.

I also like Whatstandwell

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:16 (twenty years ago) link

Chorton-cum-Hardy
Gayhurst
Hamel Hampstead
Leighton Buzzard
Bushey

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

and Shaggie Burn that is west of Perth

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

Condom, in France is always guaranteed to make little anglophones snigger.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

Shepherd's Bush. Sorry.

― syntaxfree, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

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

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