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Post by mcalli on Mar 27, 2011 11:52:05 GMT -6
Ok, lets see how many strange, or funny, or odd names for places we can come up with. Only one stipulation. It must be a real name of a real place.
I am going to start the ball rolling with "Slippery Rock, Pa.
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Post by quicky on Mar 27, 2011 12:05:41 GMT -6
Hell, Michigan..................sign sez " Welcome To Hell " at city limits
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Post by kz1000st on Mar 27, 2011 12:13:06 GMT -6
Ok, lets see how many strange, or funny, or odd names for places we can come up with. Only one stipulation. It must be a real name of a real place. I am going to start the ball rolling with "Slippery Rock, Pa. Guess who's wife went to Slippery Rock University? Yes, none other than the Chief. We visited the place once and stayed in Meadville, PA., home of Channellock Pliers. Try this on for size Damariscotta, Maine. |
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Post by Bong on Mar 27, 2011 12:16:49 GMT -6
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Post by ccprof on Mar 27, 2011 12:18:22 GMT -6
Hey common now Mac - don't be dissing the old Slimy Pebble. Here in good old PA we have lot's of better ones. Forget the towns with Native American names. Mthomas might know Mars, Space's Corner, Leaper and Panic. They're over his way. My favorite small villages around here are Frog Hollow and Chicken Town. In the northern part of my county, we have Colver and Revloc - they're across the road from each other and are old company mining towns. To the west of them, at the top of the mountain, there's Nolo (No Low). Some of the local mining towns are simpler, we have Mine 36, Mine 37 etc up to Mine 42. The Berwind Coal Company owned the mines and the town at the foot of the hill is Windber. The small town next to it is Scalp Level. There's also Welsh influence with Rhymney and Llanfair and Krayn.
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Post by kz1000st on Mar 27, 2011 12:22:18 GMT -6
Isn't the internet wonderful? www.legendsofamerica.com/loa-oddplacenames.htmlOf all the names I could come up with there really isn't a Toad's Neck anywhere in America-not even in Arkansas. But I wasn't far off Toad Suck, Arkansas is a real place. |
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Post by Bong on Mar 27, 2011 12:28:07 GMT -6
Don't forget there sister city FROG SUCK Wyoming.
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Post by mcalli on Mar 27, 2011 13:18:41 GMT -6
Roachtown, Ill. Now that sounds like a place some people would love to visit. Are they talking about the creepy insect, or the kind that has smoke coming from it. (just so you all know, I do not, and never did, even as a teenage, do drugs. I can feel high on life alone and don't need anything to atrophy my brain). Any way, assuming roachtown is talking about insects, ugh, who decided to call their town that? Not very appealing.
I went to slippery rock college also, before it changed to slippery rock university.
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Post by jhbietz on Mar 27, 2011 13:41:30 GMT -6
We have a few good ones in South Dakota. Hooker and Gayville just off the top of my head.
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Post by mthomas on Mar 27, 2011 14:03:36 GMT -6
I was just in Slippery Rock Tuesday. Rated the #1 party school a few years ago, kind have cleaned up their act a bit, twenty minutes from me.
Glad I don't live in Gayville but may have to plan a road trip to Hooker!
Larry, I know where Mars is, right outside of Cranberry, never heard of the others.
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Post by LUKE on Mar 27, 2011 16:59:49 GMT -6
oh gosh,there are tons...but i remeber some like:
Fort duck---Ca
Hellhole Palms---Ca
Hooker---Ca
Rough and ready ---Ca
Sucker Flat----Ca
Wimp---Ca
Licking----MS
Idiotville---Oregon
...here's a funny ,contadicting cities in pensylvania:
Intercourse----PA
Climax---PA
Virginville---PA
goodness,,how can someone have intercourse and a climax but still a virgin???. unbelievable...LOL! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Hammerspur on Mar 27, 2011 17:37:15 GMT -6
Does Truth Or Consequences, NM count? How about this one in PA:  |
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Post by mthomas on Mar 27, 2011 17:41:54 GMT -6
Hell, Michigan..................sign sez " Welcome To Hell " at city limits I lived in Michigan before...appropriate. |
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Post by wolfhound on Mar 27, 2011 18:24:00 GMT -6
Mac, Roach is also a surname. have known several with that name. Ball Ground, GA, Talking Rock, GA, Gaye, GA, Lizard Butte, ID.(fondly refered to as Lizard Butt) Six Mile, SC, just to name a few. Also Chimney Rock, NC.& Ninety Six, SC
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Post by madcollie on Mar 27, 2011 19:28:40 GMT -6
Hell, Michigan..................sign sez " Welcome To Hell " at city limits Got that beat, "New York, New York"! That's "HELL, HELL" in upstate yankee. Also in this fine state: Butternuts Chateaugay Conquest Cornwall-on-Hudson (not an image I want to dwell on) Friendship Hastings-on-Hudson (another image I don't want to dwell on) Mooers (for the cow lover in all of us) Ripley (believe it or not) Sand Lake (now there's a contradiction) Veteran (my hat's off to ya) and my most favorite... Willing (where the fun girls are) M/C |
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