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Last night the remnants of Michael came through here.
Wall to wall meteorologists on the local stations. Preempting normal programming. My wife and I crack up watching fellow meteorologists on the same station muscling for air time and often interrupting each other's train of thought.
Anyway, I knew about Bumpass Va. But until last night I wasn't familiar with Mannboro (MAN! BORO) or Ballsville.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Dale Neiburg
(698 posts)hvn_nbr_2
(6,486 posts)Mr. Big
(45 posts)We got...
No Name
Last Chance
Nowhere
Climax
Lay
Hygiene
Crook
Paradox
Fearnowville
Wideawake
Wondervu
Nucla
Troublesome
Fink
Plastic
Old Roach
I'm sure there's a few more.. but without breaking out my old Beavis & Butthead Travels around the Country book (it's upstairs, in the bathroom), that's all I can think of.
Laffy Kat
(16,382 posts)Mr. Big
(45 posts)It's on the way to Nebraska on I-76
Laffy Kat
(16,382 posts)Do you live in NE?
Mr. Big
(45 posts)Neighborhood is Crestmoor Park
Laffy Kat
(16,382 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)demmiblue
(36,860 posts)trixie2
(905 posts)JudyM
(29,251 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)be able to get through Climax, PA on his ride (oh, that is so wrong in so many ways!).
Here are a few more:
https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-24/wait-youre-where-11-towns-and-cities-suggestive-names
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)at the drive-n movies!
skypilot
(8,854 posts)Knew someone who lived there until last year. Every time I'd talk about visiting my friend in Blue Ball someone would say "You mean Blue BELL."
Nooo, Blue BALL.
Why, Arizona
royable
(1,264 posts)rsdsharp
(9,182 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,189 posts)Beaver
Moon
84
Dulcinea
(6,639 posts)Slate Lick
Venus
Apollo
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Slippery Rock
Hunker
Peanut
Red Onion
Tire Hill
Ogletown
Scalp Level
Did anyone mention Bird-in-Hand? (central PA, I think)
Dale Neiburg
(698 posts)from Savage to Boring....
trixie2
(905 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)underpants
(182,826 posts)We used to drive through it on our Roanoke trips. About 5 miles west of the sign signifying the geographical center of Virginia - where 24 breaks off 60.
TOGA! ✊🏼
Why I introduced my daughter to that I have no idea. Toga has a volunteer fire department ....and that's about it.
I've probably been through Dooms. Hadn't noticed it.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)All I can think of is Belushi going "Toga! Toga! Toga!"
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)There are surely more, but so far I came up with these:
Angels Camp
Forks of Salmon
Paradise
Happy Camp
Cool
Burnt Ranch
Copperopolis
Nice
Hercules
Rough and Ready
Flavin102
(6 posts)Peculiar, Tightwad, Licking, Huzzah, Enough.
The funniest is in very red Kansas: Liberal
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)OxQQme
(2,550 posts)underpants
(182,826 posts)lastlib
(23,242 posts)Toad Suck
Peculiar
Cow Gill
aeromanKC
(3,324 posts)People would set up a checking account with a minimum balance just to get a checkbook from this bank.
lastlib
(23,242 posts)I've driven by it many times!
whathehell
(29,067 posts)Yup, that's the name of the town.
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randr
(12,412 posts)aeromanKC
(3,324 posts)Johnny Carson read this clip from a Minnesotan paper on his show. Both Fertile and Climax are small towns in North Western MN.
Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)TomSlick
(11,098 posts)ain't it Grosse Tete? The real name - probably translated as "big head" but could mean "fat head" - is funny enough.
Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)TomSlick
(11,098 posts)I always stop in Grosse Tete for something. It's just a funny place name.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)In Folsom CA, a State Park. A move is afoot to change the name in these parts. I dont know.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)But no. Real name.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,861 posts)Originally named Hot Springs, it changed its name in 1950 so that the radio quiz show with that name would come to town and broadcast from there. Apparently, from what I read in Wikipedia, Ralph Edwards, the host of the show, came to town once a year for the next 50 years.
I sometimes wonder if residents have problems filling out forms that only allow so many spaces or characters for your town's name.
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)mitch96
(13,907 posts)I bust out laughing when I saw an exit for PALATKA Florida.. To me it sounded like the sound a cow pie makes when it hits the ground... pa LAT kahhhhhh......
Prolly an old Indian name..
m
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)enid602
(8,620 posts)El Stinko, California
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)King of Prussia, PA
Bulls Gap, TN
Alabama, NY
In my current state on New Jersey but not very close by is the pleasant sounding Shades of Death Road.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)and my ex worked in the molybdenum mines in Climax, CO.
SouthernIrish
(512 posts)Soddy Daisy
Chucky
Grinders Switch
Virginia has
Cracker's Neck
Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)TomSlick
(11,098 posts)Toad Suck Ferry
Possum Grape
Bald Knob
Pickle Gap
Weiner
Frog Town
Oil Trough
Flippin
Goobertown
Y City
underpants
(182,826 posts)One just North of Richmond and another waaaay out in Tazwell County. That's probably a 6hour Drive from here.
I knew about the one in Caroline County because we passed it on the way to a Christmas tree farm at my old job.
There's also Tobaccoville Oilville and Rockville (lots of quarries there)
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)About a mile east of Clarkia, Idaho, are two creeks. One is Two Bit Creek, the other is Flewsie (pronounced "floozy" Creek. In the days before Idaho was a state, there was a brothel right between them.
underpants
(182,826 posts)Half way between Yorktown and Williamsburg. Guess who lives there?
I worked with a bunch of guys from Lackey back in the late 80's.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)Kath2
(3,074 posts)Boring, MD.
radical noodle
(8,003 posts)Gnaw Bone
Pinhook
Popcorn
Floyds Knobs
French Lick
Santa Claus
Story
Beehunter
I'm sure there are others.
Chipper Chat
(9,680 posts)Saluda
Osgood
Chili
9 Mile
Gas City
Deedsville
Bramble
Correct
Frog town
RockRaven
(14,972 posts)That used to not mean anything.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)k8conant
(3,030 posts)Odd, Hurricane, Paw Paw, Sam Black Church, Jane Lew, Pie, Booger Hole, Hoo Hoo, Looneyville, Brohard, Peewee, Cucumber, Left Hand, Burnt House, Lego, Sassafrass, Kitchen and Scrabble
In Virginia: Burnt Factory
underpants
(182,826 posts)Have family there
Don't forget Poca - the high school mascot was The Dots.
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...a town called Booger Hole. No way.
jg10003
(976 posts)beveeheart
(1,369 posts)cloudbase
(5,519 posts)A little bit north of Houston.
Danmel
(4,915 posts)But first there's Hicksville.
Hauppauge-hop hog
Cutchougue cutch ogg
Copaigue- co pay gue
Speonk- spee-onk
And Ronkokoma
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)So did Billy Joel.
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Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Always cracks me up.
Apparently, there's a town called Big Ugly (VA?), because I saw a wedding announcement once that said something like "Local Man Marries Big Ugly Girl".
Polybius
(15,423 posts)There's a Lois Lane not far from me, and that's so awesome!
Homer Wells
(1,576 posts)Also, Big Ugly, WV
oberliner
(58,724 posts)llmart
(15,540 posts)They have a gift shop there and some of the sayings on the souvenir t-shirts are pretty funny.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)llmart
(15,540 posts)I remember staying at a hotel that something just seemed creepy to me. Then later on I found out that it was a hotel that didn't serve liquor because it was affiliated with some religion, though I don't know which one. No wonder it felt weird to me.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)What the heck is a braintree?
Bradshaw3
(7,522 posts)And pugnacious bugs!
eppur_se_muova
(36,266 posts)Snellius
(6,881 posts)Cartoonist
(7,317 posts)Joliet
Romeoville
liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)They always had a pumpkin stand in the fall and our girls always wanted pumpkins from Pumpkin Center
Mostly just an intersection now after the highway was widened
royable
(1,264 posts)It's a small valley north of Monson, Maine, and just north of Boarstone Mountain and a side route of the Appalachian Trail.
Then there's always Zzyzx, California. See the Wikipedia page for it.
doc03
(35,344 posts)Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)ANd worked in the NJ town with the same name.
The high schools have different colors and mascots.
Talitha
(6,593 posts)Haven't laughed this hard in a LONG time...
THANKS!!!
grantcart
(53,061 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,266 posts)I thought "Peewee" meant little, and "Pewee" meant something stinks. Turns out a pewee is a bird. https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/eastern-wood-pewee
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Booger Hole
Hoo Hoo
Looneyville
Brohard (bro!)
Peewee
Cucumber
Left Hand
Lego
Sassafras
Kitchen
Scrabble
Hundred
Paw Paw
Big Ugly
Frazier's Bottom
Man
Rock
War
Pie
True
Odd
and my favorite
Nitro
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geralmar
(2,138 posts)not in the U.S., but Newfoundland, Canada:
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Talitha
(6,593 posts)underpants
(182,826 posts)Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)samnsara
(17,622 posts)..Puyallup...Wahkiacus...but the BEST one was a small town I drove thru in Tenn called Bucksnort! I stopped at a gas station ( the only thing there I think) and got Bucksnort, Tennessee coffee cups for everyone's Xmas gifts!
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)like:
Where Dick Fell
John Catch a Cow
Bitey Bitey
Down the Hole
Oh Dear
LeftInTX
(25,364 posts)The highlight between San Antonio and Houston