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Unusual Place Names...View MessagesViewing posts 51 to 100 of 141 messages posted.
Jump to Page << prev   | 1   |  2 | 3   |  next >> 11:14:31 AM 10/29/02 “Say this without giggling: Lake Titticaca” 11:16:57 AM 10/29/02 “Has anyone mentioned Possum Trot, Virginia?” 11:46:16 AM 10/29/02 “Then there is Bumphuk, Egypt” 12:33:24 PM 10/29/02 “Uranus” 12:34:02 PM 10/29/02 “How 'bout Unnecessary Mountain or Point No Point” 12:40:03 PM 10/29/02 “Sounds like a good name for a backpacking forum, Hodgeman.” 12:42:45 PM 10/29/02 “i was going up to the allegheny forest in pennsylvania hiking with two of my children last year when we came across this town....my kids got a pretty big kick out of the name and we could figure out only one way to pronounce it.... tidioute” 12:46:33 PM 10/29/02 “French Asylum, Pa.” 12:50:47 PM 10/29/02 “I always wondered how camels had sex." treebait The sexual life of the camel, Is stranger than anyone thinks, At the height of the mating season, It tries to bugger the Sphinx. But the Sphinx's posterior orifice, Is blocked by the sands of the Nile, Which accounts for the hump on the camel, And Sphinx's inscrutable smile.” 12:51:57 PM 10/29/02 “I can't believe no one has mentioned Larry Bird's hometown... French Lick, Indiana.” 12:56:19 PM 10/29/02 What about... “Morehead, Kentucky [yes, that's right, Morehead KY] which is located on the Licking River between Twin Knobs and Rodburn.” 2:28:09 PM 10/29/02 “Oooooh! Oooooh!” 2:29:38 PM 10/29/02 “Quitman,Ga, just down the road from Climax,Ga.Then there is Two Egg,Fl. Buzzard Roost,Al.and the all time favorite Crazy Woman Creek,Wy.” 2:43:52 PM 10/29/02 “SMB, that has the ring of Shel Silverstien, one of my all-time favoritest poets. Also, just to add: Gayville, Idaho Spread Eagle, WI Dick Lick Springs Cumming, Georgia Vulcan, AB Phuket, Thailand Spuzum, BC #&%!$ing, Austria McCracken, ON Nutbush, TN Twatt, Scotland Come By Chance, Newfoundland Slave Lake, Alberta Climax, Saskatchewan Big Bone Lick State Park And my favorite... Horneytown, PA” 7:13:40 AM 10/30/02 “What Cheer, Iowa” 7:21:36 AM 10/30/02 “Squaw Teats Road and Squaw Teats Butte, WY” 8:09:56 AM 10/30/02 “i heard the milk people are trying to get some little town to name itself "Got Milk." how stupid, LOL!” 8:14:32 AM 10/30/02 “So, how much are they paying? Ah, Shel Silverstein. Great Stuff, there. Actually, I was going for more an Officer Toody that time.... Car 54 where are youooooooo?” 8:23:44 AM 10/30/02 “i forget how much they said they were paying, T...i mean, Steamy.” 8:52:52 AM 10/30/02 “Hell, Michigan” 9:39:36 AM 10/30/02 “Good Morning America is broadcasting part of their show today from Hell. Hell, MI that is. How appropriate for Halloween.” 7:44:13 AM 10/31/02 “Lizspinkthingy, IA” 7:52:34 AM 10/31/02 “HELL MICHIGAN” 7:59:00 AM 10/31/02 “Cut and Shoot, Texas” 8:01:43 AM 10/31/02 Get off on Big Beaver 12:53:00 PM 9/15/03 “ ”1:00:49 PM 9/15/03 “ ”1:01:48 PM 9/15/03 We have them all over Pennsylvania “Intercourse Bird in Hand Beaver Big Beaver and much, much more” 1:02:46 PM 9/15/03 “There's a town somewhere called Mianis (sounds like my anus). On Jackass they went there and did a bunch of interviews with city leaders asking questions like, "What is there to do in Mianis?", "What kind of things can be found in Mianis?", "How long have you been in Mianis?", "How big is Miamis?".” 1:21:24 PM 9/15/03 The town called #&%!$ing.... 1:23:27 PM 9/15/03 “I was at Beaver Cemetery Saturday.” 1:24:38 PM 9/15/03 “My condolences, Lizs.” 1:32:16 PM 9/15/03 “I didn't think beavers died. What's the old saying, "Old beavers never die the just sme... I better just shut up now.” 1:34:04 PM 9/15/03 “Are things that bad lizs?” 1:34:28 PM 9/15/03 What do they do there? “Now that is a town!!!!! Welcome to fuc#en!!!! Got to love it!!!!!!!!!!! 8)” 4:02:14 PM 9/15/03 Metro Detroit's worst street names “http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/clist17_20031117.htm I used to live near Pall Mall in Sterling Heights - the "cigarette sub". Every street was named after a cigarette brand. Who approves street names, anyway?” 12:03:42 PM 11/17/03 “One of the neighborhoods I lived in near a big train station,the streets were all named after the train destinations.” 12:05:48 PM 11/17/03 “A great-uncle and aunt were the first to build on a road in Crawfordville, FL, and were able to name the road so's to give it an address. My aunt chose "Pine Sreet." "Pine"? Dude, I woulda chosen "Led Zepplin" or something.” 7:02:23 PM 11/17/03 “Ooh! I know! If I ever do my own development, I'm gonna name the streets after ex-girlfriends. Name the subdivision "Cul-de-sac le'gojo" or something appropriate like that...” 7:07:39 PM 11/17/03 “Two roads down from me is Booger Holler Road and I once drove through a town called Knob Lick,KY” 7:08:51 PM 11/17/03 “I used to drive down Need More road about once a week in Western NC. Passed by the turnoff to Lick Log road on the way...” 7:12:15 PM 11/17/03 “Well there's always Coon Butt mountain in the Smokies. Or the Boogerman Trail.” 7:15:12 PM 11/17/03 “My favorites are Intercourse, PA and Climax, MN. We have a side road here named... Side Road. sheesh.” 7:52:13 PM 11/17/03 “There's a Climax in NC too.” 8:12:10 PM 11/17/03 “no BS... off of interstate 75 in Michigan is a road called "big beaver" its...exit 69!” 8:18:52 PM 11/17/03 “Theres a town called Accident Maryland,how the heck a town was built by accident Ill never know! Streamweaver” 12:14:25 AM 11/18/03 “SnowDude and I were driving to Utah, and we saw the town of Beaver on the map. SnowDude wanted to have dinner at Beaver, so we had a late dinner.” 12:29:03 AM 11/18/03 “Embaress, WI” 8:27:39 AM 11/18/03 “ "I used to drive down Need More road about once a week in Western NC. Passed by the turnoff to Lick Log road on the way..."There is a town in WV named Needmore. It does need more, too! And near Bryson City, NC, there is a road toward Frankland called Needmore. It goes along the Little TN River and then joins Highway 28. All the other south routes go over a mountain range, but this one does not. Helps if your car needs more.” 8:43:24 AM 11/18/03
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