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Name That Town?
« on: Aug 15th, 2005, 1:48pm » |
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OK..... So what was the genius behind these town names? All valid and oh what the hell, invalid explanations welcome.
Horneytown, North Carolina
Whynot, North Carolina
Hicksville, Ohio
Knockemstiff, Ohio
Slaughterville, Oklahoma
Idiotville, Oregon
Virginville, Pennsylvania
Sweet Lips, Tennessee
Ding Dong, Texas
Looneyville, Texas
Butts, Virginia
Imalone, Wisconsin
Toad Suck, Texas
Intercourse, Pennsylvania
Unalaska, Alaska
French Lick, Indiana
P.S. I've been to Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Man was I disappointed. Might as well have just gone to Virginville. 
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #1 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 1:54pm » |
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Blue Balls, PA
Hell For Certain, PA
Stab, KY
Crackers Neck, TN
Bodfish, CA (I lived less than a mile from it)
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #2 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 2:29pm » |
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I'm still trying to find a real town called Hooterville. 
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #4 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 2:39pm » |
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We have a Big Bone Lick River here in Fla.
You can drive over it on 75
Crump Tn. Which should of been Called Dump Tn., could spit on the next county over, & it was a dump!!
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #5 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 2:40pm » |
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I used to live in Saskatchewan and there were some good names of places there.
Piapot
Elbow
I lived near Moose Jaw
My favorite though was in Alberta, "Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump."
Don't know if it was a town or just a site, but I always wanted to visit there.
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Forgot to mention - I am from "Manteca" California, which means "Lard" in Spanish.
I used to work in Vacaville, CA, which in Spanish means "Cow Town."
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #6 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 2:46pm » |
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was in N.C. about a month ago, after they ran out of people names for streets, they started useing spices & animals names, there was :
Corn, trukey neck, stub, stub dr. curry, Even pencle neck st. me & the kids Had a ball reading them was too funny some of the names!! lol
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #7 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 3:58pm » |
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here is a whole list of good ones
http://www.geocities.com/eddyd84/towns.html
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #8 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 4:04pm » |
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on Aug 15th, 2005, 3:29pm, KingOfPain wrote:
You seemed to have missed this one...
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Again, North Carolina makes the list! There's a Climax here too!
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #9 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 4:08pm » |
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We have a place called Hucking in Kent, its POSSIBLY the most mutilated road sign in the UK..
There is also Pratts Bottom in Kent,
Ham and Sandwich are in Kent too although they are several miles apart 
The place I drove past in Scotland.. speaks for itself really..
We have Bishops Itchington in Warwickshire,
Nasty in Hertfordshire,
Great Snoring in Norfolk AND Little Snoring come to think of it..
North Piddle in Worcestershire,
Tittensor in Staffordshire,
Snigs End in Gloucestershire,
Twelveheads in Cornwall (always fancied that place!!)
But if course the killer of them all has to be..
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH in Anglesey, Wales!!
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not to forget "French Lick Indiana"
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #11 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 4:28pm » |
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #12 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 5:04pm » |
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How about OXNARD Calif.
http://www.ci.oxnard.ca.us/
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #13 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 5:21pm » |
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Our race shop is located on Horneytown Road. Really.
You left out the best one in NC.....Bat Cave,NC.
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #14 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 6:30pm » |
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on Aug 15th, 2005, 5:21pm, Racer1_NC wrote:
Our race shop is located on Horneytown Road. Really.
You left out the best one in NC.....Bat Cave,NC.
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Hey Bill, been to Bat Cave. Where in NC are you? I'm in Jamestown, little "bedroom community" between Greensboro and High Point.
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #15 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 9:27pm » |
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Hey KOP good one. There is another town up here called Fertile. I was told that a gal died in a car crash some years ago and the headline read, Fertile girl dies in Climax. I live about 30 miles from both of those places.
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #16 on: Aug 16th, 2005, 2:15am » |
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There was a town near me with the delightful name of Onoville. When I was little, I was terrified of the Onoville bridge. Back in the 60s, it got flooded when the Kinzua dam was built in Kinzua, PA on the Allegany River. It no longer exists.
Nobody menitioned Intercourse, PA?
I always liked Chagrin Falls, Ohio near Cleveland.
Cheektowaga, NY near Buffalo gets a snicker too.
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #17 on: Aug 16th, 2005, 8:24am » |
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Some South African names (but I'll have to translate)
Blyvoortsig - Happy to see ahead
Boosmansbos - Very angry man's thicket/bush
Hot-as-Hell
Onverwacht - Not expected
Verneukpan - Tricked pan
Kokstad - Chefcity
Kakamas - Mast of jaws
Gat-Sonder-Water - Hole with no water
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #18 on: Aug 16th, 2005, 8:35am » |
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Very Angry Man's Bush and Hole With No Water probably bear some relation to each other.
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #19 on: Aug 16th, 2005, 11:20pm » |
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on Aug 15th, 2005, 4:08pm, LeLimey wrote:But if course the killer of them all has to be..
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH in Anglesey, Wales!! |
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #20 on: Aug 16th, 2005, 11:49pm » |
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Helen....
Sheesh - I get more and more amazed every day! I looked at an apartment on Llanfair Rd - in Ardmore - here in PA.
Just like moving to Narberth and having Val live just by Narberth - but PA vs Wales.
And Bala Cynwyd being taken right out of Wales.
And the Pembroke apartments down the road.
WTF??? Did I move to Wales in Pennsylvania? LMAO
Yes - the PA names are quite funny....
Bird in the.... crap I forget the name of it, honestly - but it's somewhere out in Amish Country. I'm always amused that the Amish names are so....well......suggestive! Intercourse, Blue Ball, that bird one....and my favourite...
On the way to Penn State, you go under Kleinfeltersville Road..........and although it is spelled slightly differently, here is a description of Klinefelter's Syndrome......now tell me if this isn't one of the weirdest names you've ever heard!
Quote:Klinefelter syndrome is a genetic disorder that occurs in males who have three or more sex chromosomes. At least two of the chromosomes must be X chromosomes, and one must be a Y chromosome. The condition causes males to have some female-like physical features.
What is going on in the body?
Klinefelter syndrome affects only males. The presence of the Y chromosome assures that male sexual features will be present.
Because males with Klinefelter syndrome don't have the normal number of chromosomes, the body's natural balance is upset. The upset in balance leads to:
underdevelopment of the testicles, a condition called hypogonadism, which usually leads to infertility
a taller-than-average height and a feminine body build
Klinefelter syndrome usually does not cause mental retardation, but affected males test slightly lower than their brothers and sisters on IQ testing. They also may have problems talking and hearing.
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #21 on: Aug 17th, 2005, 6:12am » |
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Just a few from beautiful downtown Orztraya: Agnes Waters, Alice Springs, Bruce Rocks, Delta Downs, Edith Falls, Nambucca Heads, Macdonnel Ranges, Haasts Bluff, Pidgeon Hole, Rum Jungle, Beagle Bank, and Bungle Bungle.
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #22 on: Aug 17th, 2005, 6:22am » |
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Beagle Bank.. there's a few of us would like to go there I think!!
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Re: Name That Town?
« Reply #23 on: Aug 17th, 2005, 7:36am » |
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The only one I can think of by me is Funk, Ohio.
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