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crackedpleasures
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 Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject: Odd place names |
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Do you also have a feeling of fascination to stare at a map and wonder how those far away places would look like in real? When staring at a map you get some names that really would make you want to pack your bags immediately as they sound almost paradise-esque, but some names are just plain silly and bizarre. Let's make a list, but only existing towns please!
Some oddities:
Hell Hole (USA, somewhere in Ohio I think but I am unsure of the exact state)
Corpus Christi (USA)
Intercourse (USA) 
Fidelity (USA)
Little Rock (USA)
America (Netherlands)
Portugaal (Netherlands)
Condom (France)
Chimney Corner (Northern Ireland)
Zwijnaarde (Belgium ; it literally means "pig soil")
Aalbeke (Belgium ; means "eel creek")
Hell (Norway, it even hosts the airport of the Trondheim area)
Usa (Japan ; a local factory ironically fabricate goods with "made in Usa" on it)
Land's End (England)
Mainland (Scotland ; ironically this is actually a small island way off the north coast)
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MartinMartian
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CityAsylum
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Cheesequake, NJ (USA)
Peapack, NJ
Bible readers, please avert your eyes:
Onancock, VA, and I am not even kidding about that one.  
(For those who need more info, Google: Onan, Genesis, and Onanism)
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Xelebes
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Vulcan, Alberta
Hemaruka, Alberta
Dildo, Newfoundland |
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Tim_Tex
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Why, AZ
Two Egg, FL
Sea Girt, NJ
Boring, OR
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twoshots
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f***ing, Austria
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Tim_Tex
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I'd like to go there.
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IntrospectiveLoser
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I have seen so many silly names I can't even remember them all...Ah, lets see...
Americus.
That one makes me chuckle.
Cowford.
Name of my city, or at least, its previous name before it changed from a cow ford into an actual city. |
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Irulan
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Some examples of towns and villages from my own country:
Stalowa Wola (Steel Will)
Bialy Kal (White Stool - not a piece of furniture you sit on but what you do in the toilet)
Afryka (Africa)
Budy Prywatne and Budy Rzadowe (Private Kennels and Governmental Kennels)
Jednorozec (Unicorn)
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blue_bean
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Dumbogan, NSW
Theres a place called Texas on the way north to Queensland.
Morriset, on the Central Coast NSW ( I always think of Alanis  )
And of course some of the aboriginal place names (Dongdingalong and Coloongalook) |
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ImTheGuyThatDidThat
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Its not odd, but Hell is in norway, lots of tourist go there  (not a joke) |
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Fuzzy
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| Xelebes wrote: | Vulcan, Alberta
Hemaruka, Alberta
Dildo, Newfoundland |
You missed Sexsmith, Alberta and Beaverlodge, Alberta. Both are close to each other too! |
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Purplefluffychainsaw
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KingdomOfRats
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crackedpleasures
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Dildo, Newfoundland |
Canada's got another few nice ones, though mostly obscure towns. One town in Canada is called Eureka 
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