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[WARNING: This list contains language that may offend some readers] Following on from our lists of unfortunately named products, we have our unfortunate placenames! Here are 10 rather awful placenames from around the world.
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Found a new sign: http://www.collegehumor.com/picture:1793724 , neighsayers be warned!
im from michigan and hell is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blunt, South Dakota
funny…………its damn funny and hilarious…………stupid……..people are out of their minds nowadays!!!!!!!
An obvious american website.Why don’t you all move to hell.Where is it you ask? Any *****ing place in the USA.
My birthplace is Dildo and for your information at the time of it’s birth in 1622 it was so named for the cork that one would keep in the bottom of a boat or dory.Newfoundland does have some pretty unique names as the first inhabitants so named the places as they saw them.Newfoundland was built by the hard work and perseverance of its people and America was built by the free labour and back breaking work of African/American slaves.
Later
Derick: I am not American and I don’t live in America. So, no – it is not an American website
Haha…and people think Americans are bigoted. Derick, I’ve got news for you…the only one coming off ignorant here is you. I’m sure Newfoundland is a lovely country, and hopefully populated by people brighter than yourself.
Derick: As a fellow Canadian I am embarrassed that you are acting like that. Perhaps you should move to America if that is how you want to act.
F*cking Newfies… no wonder the rest of the country thinks you are all handicapped!
Derick – don’t listen to them! jfrater is from Texas, and he owns 3 guns, a pickup, and chews ‘bacca
SocialButterfly – “F*cking Newfies… no wonder the rest of the country thinks you are all handicapped!”
They do ?? Hahaha
edit: lovely part of the country… damn fast comments
kiwiboi: Unfortunately it is another generalization such as Americans are ignorant rednecks.
But yes it is said quite frequently… You know the prototypical blonde jokes that you hear.. well substitute the word blonde for Newfie.
I do have quite a few close friends that are from Newfoundland but he just completely ruins it for the rest of them!
Social – heh..I guess every nation has its own variation of your “Newfies”
kiwiboi: Yeah I am beginning to see that… What are the New Zealand version called?
Well, I’ve been away for some years now, but I would guess it’s “Westies” (West Aucklanders)
Sheep Chasers!!!
Heh…just remember that “baaaa” means “No!!”
Some from the UK:
Netherthong
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=414072&y=409713&z=3&sv=netherthong&st=3&tl=Netherthong,+West+Yorkshire+Town&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf
Six Mile Bottom
http://leisure.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/leisure/products.jsp?xvalue=557500&yvalue=257500&q=Six+Mile+Bottom&zoomindex=3®ionkey=GB&minx=0&maxx=0&miny=0&maxy=0&placename=Six%20Mile%20Bottom&publisher=null
Wetwang
http://leisure.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/leisure/products.jsp?xvalue=557500&yvalue=257500&q=Six+Mile+Bottom&zoomindex=3®ionkey=GB&minx=0&maxx=0&miny=0&maxy=0&placename=Six%20Mile%20Bottom&publisher=null
*****t
http://leisure.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/leisure/products.jsp?xvalue=327500&yvalue=1024500&q=*****t&zoomindex=3®ionkey=GB&minx=0&maxx=0&miny=0&maxy=0&placename=*****t&publisher=allpub
[Chevy Chase voice] This just in…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_ANGRY_ATHOL?SITE=WFAA&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME
#6 is the funniest!
And those Frenchies gave us the “Grand Tetons” or Big Tits mountains in wyoming!!!!
the Pennsylvania one is great, I need to look for that one. Number6 was pretty good too. At least they know and accept the fact they have a weird name.
I want #8.
Also, Please don’t make fun of our village’s silly name.
there is also a
Blue Ball,
Virginville,
Beaverdale
Butztown
Reamstown
Big Beaver
and Bird-in-Hand Pennsylvania
I used to stare at the back of a classmates shirt that had the towns of Pa on the back on a map and of course there was a cartoon sign in the middle with Intercourse and Blue Ball in the middle (lancaster county) and i would always think she would get in trouble for wearing it….
I’m from Michigan and HELL, Michigan is a real!
there is a city in California called Oxnard. nard is a slang term for a testicle. definitely an unfortunate name, although the city may have existed before the term
In Co. Cork, Ireland, there is a place called Effin.
So it’s like lets all go to the effin church.
I live in Penistone in England.
It’s funny for the first few months, then you get used to it.
http://is.gd/13RE
Awesome!!
My parents live near Anus (as*s*hole, in French), a tiny hamlet in Burgundy.
I live near a village called “Fingringhoe” in England
*****ing exists. i’m from austria and you should see the masses (well, really tiny masses, as it were) flocking towards the town (clear case of exaggeration there, again). the name can be traced back to the tenth century as there was a guy called “focko”, and it means “Focko’s familys place”.
I understand the fascination, though.
FYI,
Intercourse, PA is where the movie Witness with Harrison Ford was filmed. It’s an Amish community this also includes the town’s of Blueball and Virginville.
Hell, Mi. is a popular place for weathermen to talk about in the winter when it “freezes over”.
My favorite name not on the list is a town in Ohio named
Big Bone Lick.
Make that Big Bone Lick, KY. not Ohio.
I can vouch for the *****t sign – I have the same photo myself…
Cocking *****borough??? No way is that real. In Dublin you can go to the Furry Glen in the Phoenix Park. Or what about Bushy Park in Rathfarnham (Dublin too) And if you’re in Co. Clare, why not visit the lovely village of Feakle? When I realised we were going to be passing through Feakle I almost shat myself laughing!! (Now that would have been ironic!!)
I live somewhat near Dildo in Newfoundland, that IS a real place, however i do believe they recently changed the name. Nova Scotia has a place called Lower Sackville too. That should definetly be here. But props to finding out about Dildo.
How does No one mention the ever popular Phuket, Thailand?
In the Netherlands is a village named “Doodstil”, meaning “Deadsilent”.
There’s a Hackballscross not far from me in Co.Louth, Ireland. That always cracks me up. Especially becaue the accent of the locals is a bit gutteral – makes it all that more violent-sounding…
what about Idiotville, Oregon?
I live a half hour outside of dildo!
sorry #6 I totally laughed at your funny name.
I have totally been to mount Titlis-’so named because of it’s resemblance to a female breast’.
No more than 1 hour from my home in North Carolina is Hornytown
nice list hahaha
Aha i so live near ‘Pity Me’
and even nearer to ‘No Place’ ;p
x
In Belgium you can find the lovely city of Reet (Arse, in translation)
There is a state park in Kentucky called Big Bone Lick.
168. zigra
already said back in comment #154
My mum lives near Penistone in Yorkshire,uk I thought that was funny when we saw it..
where do all these name originate from?
I was reading about intercourse pennsylvania and there is a lot of strange town names near there….blue ball…bird in hand…virginville…and what even stranger is its all amish country
HAhahha, Im glad to see that Dildo made the list, as i thought it would. I love there
On a sign comming into the town, it says “Dildo 12″, the 12 meaning kilometers, but some clever person put a ‘ ” ‘ there, so now the sign reads, ‘Dildo 12″‘
I can’t believe no one from MO has brought up Knob Lick. It’s a tiny little town but it gets huge laughs.
In Colorado there is a ski town called Beaver Creek. There is a store there that sells alcoholic beverages named “Beaver Liquors.” My friend bought a t-shirt there.
Also, on Highway 101 in Humboldt County (northern Cali) is a highway exit called “Bear Buttes Road.” I always mean to stop and take a picture, but the camera is never handy.
I went to Intercourse two summers ago, they sell shirts that say “I heart Intercourse”
Cocking *****borough…..what were they thinking?
i dont think people living there would have liked to be called FROM that place
WTF! ewww
There is a place in South Australia called ‘Grong Grong’, then there is ‘Humpty-do’ in the Northern Territory, Queensland is the name of a whole state in Australia and then there are a myriad of wierd names some of which are Indigenous words and some are not;
Puckapunyal
Yarrawonga
Wodonga
Wagga Wagga
Wooloomooloo
Wollongong
Broken Hill
Anakie
Balaclava
Indented Head
Koo Wee Rup
Nar Nar Goon
Mount Toolebewong
Officer
Tootgarook
And there are hundreds more
those are all hilarious but a few are probably untrue and it seems cocking *****borough almost certainly is
i lived near pity me and there is another place in durham england called “NO PLACE” LOL
Someone once pointed out a place on a Manchester A-Z map called Nob End. Nearby was a place called Little Lever, which was less funny.