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I live about 15 minutes away from Toad Suck!
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I mentioned it a few pages back. Obviously, nobody noticed.
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Off on a slight tangent - I grew up in Rodney District. A few years ago the sign at the 'border' was changed to... you guessed it 'You Are Now Entering Rodney'. It was changed after about six months.
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Apparently the sign made it to either Jay Leno's or Dave Letterman's show.
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quote:Originally posted by Major D. Saster: Switzerland has more to offer, like Les Enfers (Hell). Another classic is Montcuq, France (it pronounces like "mon cul" - my ass).
Michigan has a little town named "Hell."
According to local legend the town got it's name when the community's "founding father" (a real PITA of a man) proposed that the community be named after him. The rest of the town said a loud NO! The "founding father" replied, "Then call it Hell, for all I care." So they did.
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hijack- There's a picture of me as a baby holding a devil doll in front of the sign that says "Welcome to Hell!" on it in Hell Michigan. Adorable. end hijack
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quote:Originally posted by Major D. Saster: Switzerland has more to offer, like Les Enfers (Hell). Another classic is Montcuq, France (it pronounces like "mon cul" - my ass).
Michigan has a little town named "Hell."
So... Holland has a village called Hell too... and one called Hellegat (Hellhole) [not to be confused with the water of the same name].
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I haven't been able to navigate all ten pages of this but I DO have to prove that Washington names can be pronounced.
Yakima... this is YA-kih-maw, not "Yuh-KEE-muh" Puyallup... Pew-al-up Sequim.. "Skwim"
OK, I'm cheating since I live here.
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quote:Originally posted by Major D. Saster: Switzerland has more to offer, like Les Enfers (Hell). Another classic is Montcuq, France (it pronounces like "mon cul" - my ass).
Michigan has a little town named "Hell."
So... Holland has a village called Hell too... and one called Hellegat (Hellhole) [not to be confused with the water of the same name].
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In southern Illinois there is a town called Gays. The cross country team at my high school once passed through on the way to a meet and stopped to take a group photo by the sign. Gays is the home of the only two-story outhouse in the United States. Other than that, it doesn't have much going for it. The population is only 500 or so.
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Threre is : Sugar Tit, Kentucky, aong with Head of Grassy, Kentucky. Along with Goodnight, Texas, Hells Half Acre, Wyoming. I have seen millions more.
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Btw, in the east of Germany (I think state of Saxony-Anhalt, but could be Brandenburg) close to the Dorfrepublik Rüterberg there is a small hamlet (basically a sluice and two roads crossing) by the name of Findenwirunshier - literally "So this is the place where we meet again". Allegedly founded by two brothers who, well, you can guess it.
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Apparently, the ethymology and/or spelling has nothing embarrassing (most of them coming from old latin names), but the pronounciation makes them ridiculous... here are the best, with my own translation attempts :
Bosc-Bordel (Brothel-in-the-Forrest)
Serqueux (Dick Squeezer)
Chilleur-au-Bois (Pooper-in-the-Woods)
Corps-Nuds (Naked Bodies)
Crottes (Feces)
Fessey-Dessus and Fessey-Dessous (Upper and Lower Spanking)
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Don't know if this has been posted yet, I'm not about to read through 10 pages of funny names...
But my favorite has to be the town of Blue Ball, Pennsylvania. Obviously it's a very religious place, the women especially so, and the men tend to get, well, frustrated.
Still, it's home of heaven on earth in the form of the Shapy Maple Smorgasborg. Obviously they had to compensate for their, uh, condition by participating in another deadly sin: gluttony. Delicious, delicious gluttony.
Also in PA: Middlesex, Intercourse, and a favorite of mine, West Berlin. Why the fudge is there a West Berlin? Isn't just Berlin good enough, there's no East Berlin in PA? Or maybe New Berlin? Anyways...
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About West Berlin: if the city (well, hamlet more probably) was founded in between 1945 and 1990, it would make some sense. During the period of the two Germanys, there were two Berlins as well. The "good" West Berlin and the "bad" East Berlin.
On a larger scale, it makes less sense, since the official stance of the west on Berlin has always been, that there is only one Berlin and that the German seperation is not to last, while the status quo of two distinct cities and countries was the east's idea of how it should stay.
So I think: someone wanted to support the West against those commies and ended up with living in a commie propaganda settlement
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New Zealand has 'Puketiti', but it's not pronounced as I always read it.
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Hungary has a host, my favorite of which is the town of Bugyi (BOO-jee), which means "panties."
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I've got two towns in the area of Hamburg that are quite normal for the native German, but might sound funny to an English speaker:
Quickborn and Itzehoe (pronounced "Its-a-hoe")
Don "no, it isn't!" Enrico
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