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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

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

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