Weird placenames..........

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:43 pm

There's a village in Austria called 'Freaking'. (OK, that's a euphimism)

There's a village called Intercourse in Pennsylvania

There's a town in Norway called Hell

There's a village in Orkney called Twatt

There are the towns of Condom and Brest in France

Anyone got more?

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:49 pm

Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:59 pm

Chookie;1084875 wrote: There's a village in Austria called 'Freaking'. (OK, that's a euphimism)

There's a village called Intercourse in Pennsylvania

There's a town in Norway called Hell

There's a village in Orkney called Twatt

There are the towns of Condom and Brest in France

Anyone got more?

I was hiking in Gascony a few weeks ago and ended up in Condom. Must have somehow dropped the cleaning cloth out of my reading glasses case, and popped into the local optometrist shop to get a new one. So now I clean my glasses with a neat wiper with Condom written on it.

There's a town called Christmas in, I think, Wisconsin.

And a place called Tittisee in the BlackForest in Germany.

Just for starters. Most Aussie place names - like Woooooolloooooomoooooolooooo seem to have foreigners in stitches.

Post by **spot** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:10 pm

AussiePam;1084887 wrote: Just for starters. Most Aussie place names - like Woooooolloooooomoooooolooooo seem to have foreigners in stitches.Everyone in my school class went bright red when our Geography lesson on Southern Rhodesia made mention of the coalmining town of Hwange and its enormous reserves. Back when the place was a colony it had a different spelling. The teacher was getting on - he'd been a Captain of Artillery in World War One - and he'd given the same lesson once a year ever since the Armistice, he was used to the reaction.

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:17 pm

I do hope you all realise that FG is based on intercourse and would not be tenable without it.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:54 pm

There are two small towns here in Georgia with unusual names. Santa Claus and Hopulikit.

Trunk Monkey · Post by **Trunk Monkey** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:28 pm

-- Bobo, Eclectic (Alabama)

-- Eek (Alaska)

-- Bullhead City, Floss, Goobertown, Nothing, Why (Arizona)

-- Flippin, Okay, Possum Grape, Toad Suck, Weiner, Yellville (Arkansas)

-- Booneville, Bummerville, Timbuctoo, Wimp, You Bet (California)

-- No Name (Colorado)

-- Frostproof (Florida)

-- Between, Enigma, (Georgia)

-- Oblong (Illinois)

-- Zero (Indiana)

-- Diagonal, What Cheer (Iowa)

-- Plainville (Kansas)

-- Oddville, Nonesuch, Typo, Uno (Kentucky)

-- Plain Dealing (Louisiana)

-- Beans Corner Bingo (Maine)

-- Boring, Crapo (Maryland)

-- Jugville (Michigan)

-- Nimrod (Minnesota)

-- Bobo, It, SoSo, Zero, Yazoo City (Mississippi)

-- Humansville, Peculiar, Tightwad, Useful (Missouri)

-- Two Dot, Zero, Yaak (Montana)

-- Wahoo (Nebraska)

-- Pahrump (Nevada)

-- Hell Hollow, Lost Nation (New Hampshire)

-- Ho-ho Kus (New Jersey)

-- Truth or Consequences (New Mexico)

-- Boogertown, Whynot (North Carolina)

-- Can Do, Hoople, Zap (North Dakota)

-- Hicksville, Home (Ohio)

-- Loco, Okay (Oklahoma)

-- Boring, Drain, Half.com, Idiotville, Zig Zag (Oregon)

-- Bath Addition, Drab, Jugtown, Loyalsockville, Ono (Pennsylvania)

-- Woonsocket (Rhode Island)

-- Welcome (South Carolina)

-- Peever, Red Shirt (South Dakota)

-- Bitter End, Nameless, Only, Static (Tennessee)

-- Ding Dong, Jot Em Down, Looneyville, Nada, Noodle, Twitty, Uncertain (Texas)

-- Eureka (Utah)

-- Notown (Vermont)

-- Bumpass, Goochland, Goosepimple Junction (Virginia)

-- Puyallup, TumTum, Walla Walla (Washington)

-- Crum, Drooping, HooHoo, Looneyville, Odd (West Virginia)

-- Imalone, Ubet, Wanderoos (Wisconsin)