Top 10 Unfortunate Placenames

Those are fucking hilarious!!!! :-)

This list screams ‘PHOTOSHOPPED’ at me. 4 & 6 especially. No village in England is going to have a sign saying ‘Please don’t laugh at our village’s funny name’. Plus, the text on the sign is wonky.

I live near Pity Me. :) Real place. Not sure about the others though!

What was going through the village founders heads?

I wonder if people will who go to Hell, after accessing Anus and going around Fucking.

here in saskatchewan we have a town called Semens, just a few kilometers from Climax.

oh..and we have a random town called Elbow

Hey there is also Graball and Smut Eye, Ala; Tightwad, Mo.;Monkeys Eyebrow, Ky.;Smackover, Ark.;Rough and Ready, Calif., etc.

http://www.americanprofile.com/article/1851.html

i think a few are def photoshopped, and does HELL count? it seems they meant to call it that, cos the real name is at the bottom.

BUT seriously, fantastic list. YAY!

I know Dildo and Fucking are real (Newfoundland & Austria respectively). Dildo is the birthplace of Playboy playmate and b-movie actress Shannon Tweed. I live near Bumpass, VA (pronounced Bumpiss or Bumpus).

I agree, lots of these images seem photoshopped and I can remember seeing most of them on sites like ebaums and cracked……which dosent say alot about my personal life but i still thank this was a weak list.

Hehe, good list … here in Denmark there is a place called Pikhede, or in English: Dickmoor ;)

Aha. Ahahaha. Ahahahahaaa!! That’s great.

-Andrea Carlena Beauman

I watched a news story about the town of Dildo. It was about a small group of townsfolk who were trying to get the name changed, and an even smaller group who were trying to keep the name.

What about Wyre Piddle in Worcestershire, UK and all the various Hamptons around?

We’ve a place called Wetwang up here in North Yorkshire :D

There’s a town in North Carolina, USA, called Morehead. I know this to be a fact. :D

I used to live near Intercourse, PA. Amish country is FULL of crazy town names! When we were growing up, we used to say – You can head through Blue Ball, Bird in Hand, and Intercourse all on the way to Paradise!

But no matter what, you always have to go through Intercourse to get to Paradise :)

Mark: If only Morehead had been situated in nearby Craven County, imagine the money they could have made selling souvenirs marked CRAVEN County, MOREHEAD City. Ah, well … maybe they can hire Hugh Grant for an ad campaign.

I live right near intercourse, PA

Number 8 it is also a fake

The famous ski and hunting are now know as “Jackson Hole” was first named “Jackson’s Hole” (a hole being old mountin talk for a valley). There used to be a sign at the entrance to the valley explaining that the name was changed “for reasons of brevity” – as if the extra [‘s] made a difference.

No longer “an unfortunate placename”, ah well …

I have an Intercourse, Pennsylvania hat! I get weird looks everytime I wear it.

theres a place in co.meath(i think) ,ireland called nobber!

I laughed so hard i nearly pissed myself!

I used to live near Intercourse, PA. Jokingly I used to put that as my address on certain Internet related profiles until I realized that adult screening software on the server side would not allow me to add it or tell me my profile needed to be included in with other adult profiles.

Must be a huge problem for people that live there now when dealing with outsider especially since automated software has gotten even more advanced.

theres a Hackballsslash in ireland.ill try and find a picture.apperntly it was a place of torture in the middle ages

Fishing4Monkeys: You must have something confused.. The last one, Titlis. I have been there. It is located in Switzerland. I took that actual rotair up the the mountain called which is called Titlis (hence the ski resorts name) The mountain is located in the Swiss Alps.

We have Beaver Lick deep south KY

Don’t forget Bong Recreation Area in Wisconsin

There’s also a Climax, MI[chigan]. I visited there once and asked if they had any souvenir t-shirts, like the ones I have for Hell and Paradise. They couldn’t imagine why someone would want a shirt from Climax, MI. It’s off of I-94.

I used to go hiking near Hell all the time when I was going to school at UM. Don’t know if it’s still the case, but back in the early 90s, you’d get on the Ann Arbor-Dexter Road, and once you reached Dexter, you’d get on the Dexter-Pinckney Rd. A few miles south of Pinckney, you’d turn left on Darwin Rd, and … Darwin would lead you straight to Hell.

Also a heads-up for Purgatory, CO, and Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky.

OMG – he’s right!

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=Ann+Arbor,+MI&daddr=hell,+MI&sll=42.36015,-83.867155&sspn=0.205488,0.401001&ie=UTF8&z=11

I’ve also passed through Muff and seen the signs for it’s diving club. Also, at one point a garage chain called Top used to have a branch there and you could buy keyrings with “Top Muff” on them there as you filled up your car – I still have 3.

Hell is a real place.. thats where im retireing too! Looks like some of these are photoshopped.. but some are real places

Ive been to a place called deathonastik(pronounced dev on a stck) haha death on a stick. i was crackin up.

Nunber 3 is obvously a fake computer-edited

http://www.TecnoCientista.info

connikim: wow – how do people come up with those names?!

hey jfrater: You could do a list just of Canadian places. Some of my favourites: Deathdealer Island; Drinking Hole Barren; Push and Be Damned Rapids; Grosse Coques; Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo Jump; Hump Island…I think you get the point

“Excuse me sir, could you please tell where you’ve been recently.”

“Fucking, Hell, Cocking Fuckborough”

I’ve driven through Fucking Cockborough before! It was hilarious!

There’s a Shooting Butts Road in Martinborough, NZ.

#3-JOES- I researched all of them to authenticate them-they are, unfortunately all real places.

Also, by “research” I don’t mean Ebaums World, or any other sites like it…I mean I looked at maps-I assure you guys, they’re all real places. Most of them have websites for the towns-What’s great is that most of them find the names good tourist draws, and I think they’re right. Google the towns-you’ll find their home pages. Glad you guys enjoyed them!

Also, under “fucking”, the sign says “don’t go to fast” (and under that it says children crossing…not as funny) but COME ON- FUCKING- DON’T GO TOO FAST!

What about GLASSCOCK, TEXAS?

My uncle had a t-shirt from Intercourse Pennsylvania, saying “INTERCOURSE WAS EVERYTHING I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE.”

Condom, France
Tit, Algeria
Half Hell, North Carolina
Deep Hole, Virginia
Bird in Hand, Pennsylvania
Big Beaver, Pennsylvania
Blue ball, Pennsylvania and Ohio and Delaware
New Erection, Virginia
Climax, Georgia and Colorado and Michigan and Minnesota and New York and North Carolina and Ohio
Conception, Missouri
Fidelity, Missouri
Horneytown, North Carolina
Come By Chance, New Foundland
Jackhead, Monitoba
Intercourse, Alabama
Mianus, CT
Gay, Michigan
Gay Head, Massachusetts
Gayhead, New York
Cumming, Georgia
Beaver Lick, Kentucky
Virginville, PA
Gayville, South Dakota
Oral, South Dakota
Threeway, Virginia
Fourway, Virginia
Humptulips, Washington
Spread Eagle, Wisconsin

and Satans Kingdom, Vermont is funny and you can also be dropped off at the corner of Seaman Avenue & Cumming Street in New York.

Oh, yes! Somewhere I’ve been!
I used to go to Hell, Michigan like…three times a year,
they have the best ice cream!

And for those who are interested, I’m pretty sure that Hell is fairly close to Paradise,
=]

Someone was telling me that they once met someone from Intercourse, and he (being British), laughed quite loudly upon hearing where they where from.

They didn’t get it. xDD

I’m acutally from Dildo…it’s an aweosome place. There mascot is a wooden fisherman named Captain dildo. No joke.

Check out “Grosse Coques” In Nova Scotia… another funny one.

Cocking Fuckborough is not real. Just type it into http://www.streetmap.co.uk.

haha those rock…another good one would have been Mianus
It was on jackass.

Cool i’ve been to the last one! I go snowboarding there alot :D

I live about 10 minutes from Intercourse PA. Nearby there is also Blue Ball and south you have Paradise. PA pretty much has you covered.

Found a new sign: http://www.collegehumor.com/picture:1793724 , neighsayers be warned!

Blunt, South Dakota

An obvious american website.Why don’t you all move to hell.Where is it you ask? Any fucking 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

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 – don’t listen to them! jfrater is from Texas, and he owns 3 guns, a pickup, and chews ‘bacca :)

edit: lovely part of the country… damn fast comments

Social – heh..I guess every nation has its own variation of your “Newfies”

Well, I’ve been away for some years now, but I would guess it’s “Westies” (West Aucklanders)

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+%5BTown%5D&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&regionkey=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&regionkey=GB&minx=0&maxx=0&miny=0&maxy=0&placename=Six%20Mile%20Bottom&publisher=null

Twatt
http://leisure.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/leisure/products.jsp?xvalue=327500&yvalue=1024500&q=twatt&zoomindex=3&regionkey=GB&minx=0&maxx=0&miny=0&maxy=0&placename=Twatt&publisher=allpub

#6 is the funniest!

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.

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….

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

I live in Penistone in England.

It’s funny for the first few months, then you get used to it.

http://is.gd/13RE

I live near a village called “Fingringhoe” in England

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.

I can vouch for the Twatt sign – I have the same photo myself…

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.

In the Netherlands is a village named “Doodstil”, meaning “Deadsilent”.

what about Idiotville, Oregon?

sorry #6 I totally laughed at your funny name.

No more than 1 hour from my home in North Carolina is Hornytown :)

nice list hahaha

In Belgium you can find the lovely city of Reet (Arse, in translation)

168. zigra

already said back in comment #154

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

I can’t believe no one from MO has brought up Knob Lick. It’s a tiny little town but it gets huge laughs.

I went to Intercourse two summers ago, they sell shirts that say “I heart Intercourse”

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

i lived near pity me and there is another place in durham england called “NO PLACE” LOL

Does “Peculiar”, MO count as “unfortunate”? Also, I have often thought that Morehead, KY ought to be on the Licking River. Unfortunately…

In Denmark we have the cities Middelfart and Jelling .. But here Middelfart doesn’t mean the same thing as in English :D .. It means “Medium speed” in Denmark though it doesn’t have anything to do with it.

There is a bar that I know of on the corner of 69th and Beaver Street in Licking, PA. Pennsylvania also Blueballs and the above mentioned Intercourse. Glad I lived there for 13 years!

I live near a village called “Cockermouth” in Cumbria, near “STAINton”

We’ve got Pratt’s Bottom, in Surrey, but the French have got Silly, Pissy and Prat.

I think 4 and 6 might be shopped…
Fucking, Austria always cracks me up, though
it is made twice as funny by the sign below it with children saying “Bitte! Nacht so Schnell!”

My favorite place name story is about a street in Calgary AB Canada. The street is called Shaganappi Trail which I didn’t know was funny until my friend’s dad from the UK was driving me home on it and he said “SHAGANAPPI TRAIL?! in England it would be FUCK A DIAPER trail!”….awesome…

i live in michigan and i want to live in hell michigan so bad because it would be hilarious to tell people you live in hell haha. then again…it doesnt matter where in michigan you live, its still hell.

HA! i used to live in Muff It’s in Ireland.

oh and just south of chillicothe here in ohio we have knockemstiff. not terribly funny, but its the real name of the town, which by default makes it better than the photoshopped places

What, no Bumfuck Egypt?

Not far along the highway after getting off the ferry from Nfld. where Dildo is located (along with many many wonderful Newfoundland place names) you’ll find Balls Creek on Cape Breton Island .

Love cocking fuckborough, especially with the note they put underneath

http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/hall/8701/townname.htm try some of these from uk and america. i honestly do not find many of the brits ones funny though

Real funny guys!! Why make fun of those villages

I’ve been on Titlis !

There’s a place a few kilometers from me called Poowong in Victoria, Australia!

I want to move to MUFF! I hear the diving is excellent there! :-)

Yes, my father grew up in a town near dildo. It certainly exists.

In it, is Dildo Run provincial park.

I’ve never seen a dildo run, personally.

Also, Shannon Tweed is NOT from Dildo. She’s from St John’s. Dildo is on new world island. St John’s is ~4 hours away by car.

In Ontario, Canada there is a small town called Dorking. Right by where my parents live (about a 20 min drive away).

Cocking Fuckborough ffom the name just has to be in the UK if it actually exists.
I have a very detailed book of maps of the UK and there is no mention of it there. If it does exist, it’s almost certain that it would be in the book of maps.
Interestingly, on one occasion when I was in the UK I noticed a village called “Cat’s Bottom” (Norfolk) in the index. I went there to get a photograph of the sign but regrettably there was actually no sign.

Muff is in Ireland ! :-)

bless the germans
‘fucking’
theres probs gonna be a town in france called ‘wanking dick’
OMFG THAT WOULD BE FUNNY!

I have a hoodie for ‘Muff Diving Club’. Best €30 ever!

I used to live a few miles from Toad Suck, Ark, and my grandpa was born in Blue Eye, Arkansas. Too weird.

i've been to muff. It stinks of fish!!!

I think it's been mentioned before, but Cockermouth should definately (<–sp?) be mentioned.
Norfolk? It sounds like "No fuck". Well, it was more funny on this programme, this guy started an estate agents shop called "Norfolk 'N Homes". It was joke of course and he had to change the name, but it had me giggling somewhat.
Acock’s Green (Worcestershire, UK)
Ardfork (Aberdeenshire)
Ardgay (Ross & Cromarty, UK)
Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)
That's all I can think of. ¬_¬
Backside (Banffshire, Scotland)
Bachelors Bump (Essex, UK)
Assawoman (VA, USA)

"Pity Me" didn't make me laugh. Probably because it wasn't related to sex. But all of the others made me laugh out loud.

I'm sure there is a place called bastard.

I know the spanish readers ain’t the main target of this webpage, but I think in any case, it should be fun to know that there’s a place called Vergas, Minnesotta, which “Vergas” is slang for penises in spanish, also, there’s a place in Russia called Putas, which is “whores” in my mother tounge. Its so hilarious that in Minessota they have a beauty peagent called “Miss Vergas”
which sounds just like “my dicks” in spanish, hahaha.

cocking fuckborough is photoshopped. there is no such place… at least not in england. (the sign is typical english)

there is a place called ‘cocking’ so maybe they just added fuckborough for a laugh.

who can blame them.

Sorry to burst the bubble but whilst Cocking is a place in West Sussex, as far as I’m aware, Cocking Fuckborough does not exist.

A lot of these are fake, but there is a real place called “twatt” in Austria.

there is a place called Mianus in Connecticut

too bad those are photoshopped and don’t actually exist! Do a Google and check them out if you don’t believe me.