Funny place names. : Othor Games

» Thu May 19, 2011 9:58 am

Are there any humerous names of places where you live?

Some odd places near where I live:
Eggs and Bacon Bay
Baghdad
Penguin

:unsure:

So what about you?

» Thu May 19, 2011 5:29 am

Swan Bottom
Cuckoo's Knob

» Thu May 19, 2011 9:03 am

Beanland.
Poo, Llanes.

» Thu May 19, 2011 7:38 am

There's a village in Austria called F'ing.

» Thu May 19, 2011 1:13 pm

Place in France called [censored]e

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:46 pm

There's a holiday resort called Sandy Balls a few miles away from me.

» Thu May 19, 2011 1:37 am

There's a place called "Hevonperse" in Lapland. It literally means a horse's ass.

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:04 am

I have a feeling theres going to be a lot of censors in this thread.

» Thu May 19, 2011 3:26 am

http://i.imgur.com/kZ3RK.jpg

Actual town in Norway

» Thu May 19, 2011 3:22 pm

there's the Cocksdorp

it's on the most northern tip of our island..

it's where the lighthouse is..

» Thu May 19, 2011 2:30 pm

There's a place about an hour up the road called Peep-o-Day where they have an annual nudist festival (either there or Vinegar Hill)
Otherwise I know of
Pee-Pee in Ohio
[censored] in Austria
[censored] in Germany

Damn, they were censored. I'll add links

And I'll remove them! :stare:

» Thu May 19, 2011 4:29 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman,_Turkey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pencscola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middelfart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetwang

» Thu May 19, 2011 1:59 pm

I'm always amused by the village of Nasty in Hertfordshire, and the rather odd Buttocks Booth in Northamptonshire.

» Thu May 19, 2011 1:17 pm

There's Phuket, in Thailand, but it's pronounced differently :unsure:

» Thu May 19, 2011 2:22 pm

Places in Australia:
Woodrising
Cockburn
Boing Boing
Bong Bong
Cockwash (in South Australia)
Foul Bay
Goonoo Goonoo (pronounced "gunna g'noo")
Nowhere Else (both in TAS and SA)

» Thu May 19, 2011 4:13 am

I like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

» Thu May 19, 2011 11:30 am

sixbierum (witch sounds like six beer and rum) http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/sixbierum
but it actually means something els, what i don't know.

» Thu May 19, 2011 6:30 am

There's a place called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84teritsiputeritsipuolilautatsij%C3%A4nk%C3%A4 in Lapland. Not only is the name long (35 letters, longest place name in Finland), but it also sounds funny when spoken out loud.

Doesn't mean anything hilarious, though.

» Thu May 19, 2011 1:12 am

http://i.imgur.com/kZ3RK.jpg

Actual town in Norway

Stole all of New Jersey's thunder with that one.

» Wed May 18, 2011 11:16 pm

sixbierum (witch sounds like six beer and rum) http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/sixbierum
but it actually means something els, what i don't know.

I've been there <_<

total miss representation of the place

no rum, no beer, and certainly no six :flame:

then I find out, no coffeeshop :swear:

needless to say, it's now better know as "Big-hole-in-the-ground-where-Andy-blew-it-to-kingdom-come",

...but apparently that's too long for google maps :nope:

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:40 pm

http://i.imgur.com/kZ3RK.jpg

Actual town in Norway

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&biw=1600&bih=794&q=hell+michigan&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x882334578757ad71:0xd45079770956618a,Hell,+MI,+USA&gl=uk&ei=zibqTd6PCca2hAfyzqy6Bg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CB8Q8gEwAA too

» Thu May 19, 2011 11:42 am

Well, not terribly funny, but interesting
L'Avenir (which means the Future)
Rivière-au-saumon (not in the plurial form, which suggest there's only one salmon in the river.)
http://www.nps.gov/grte/index.htm (not from here, but the name is funny if you know its origins... well french woodsmen back in the days of colonisation were lonely men... teton as in t.i.t.s)

» Thu May 19, 2011 8:22 am

I think I mentioned this before. It's a couple's house whose names are Connie and Domenic. They thus named their house...condem (like this, with the capitalization). lol

» Thu May 19, 2011 6:17 am

I like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

True story: the linguist David Crystal did a research visit to that town in Wales, and asked a waitress at a nearby cafe how to pronounce the name of the place.
She bent down and intoned carefully in his ear: "Lit-tle Chef."

:doh:

My husband is from Cockermouth. It never gets old.

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:48 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middelfart

Pick place names from your own country instead of picking ours. :sadvaultboy: