Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby TPMcGinty » Sun Apr 21, 2013 6:59 pm

How about Embarrass Minnesota or Nowthen Minnesota.
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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby Verna » Sun Apr 21, 2013 7:27 pm

French Lick, Indiana home of Larry Bird :thumbsup:
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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby S. Heisley » Sun Apr 21, 2013 7:58 pm

How about Igo, CA and Ono, CA? Also, I've always thought Cucamonga, CA was an interesting name.
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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby D.J. » Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:21 pm

OK this one is fictional but it has always been a favorite of mine.
In the Disney TV series DuckTales the home base was located in " The Nowhere Atoll ".
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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby mezmo » Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:35 pm

When driving through Tennessee, on the interstate once, I saw
a road sign for"Bug Tussle".

Also: "Bucksnort"
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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby CliffinGA » Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:44 pm

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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby PKCSPT » Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:38 am

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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby Nobody » Mon Apr 22, 2013 9:27 am

mezmo wrote:When driving through Tennessee, on the interstate once, I saw
a road sign for"Bug Tussle".


Some of you may be too young to remember but, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Carl Albert, actually listed his birthplace as Bug Tussle (sometimes spelled Bugtussle), Oklahoma. It is/was a small community located on the south shore of Lake Eufaula near McAlester, OK & Carl Albert reportedly attended grade school there... :R
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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby jstrubberg » Mon Apr 22, 2013 4:31 pm

We have some oddballs here in Missouri.

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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby Roo Dog » Mon Apr 22, 2013 5:12 pm

Jstrubberg,

Ya gotta wonder where some of them come from !
Doesn't pay to let ones imagination run rife with some of them.

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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby lancew » Mon Apr 22, 2013 5:23 pm

I don't know why...but, It seems the village of Farmer City Illinois. always seem to be funny to peeps that I talked to. Farmer City is where I always told them I was from. that was more well known than Mansfield. don't know if this counts. just thought I would throw it in there.
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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby Rainier70 » Mon Apr 22, 2013 5:31 pm

Some fun names so far!

Some from Idaho:

Ketchum
Iona
Wilder
Ucon
Notus
Peck
Onaway
Crouch
Tensed

And don't say this last one too fast.

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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby Roo Dog » Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:14 pm

Rainier,

The last one is not so good if you lisp a tad.

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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby Nobody » Mon Apr 22, 2013 9:32 pm

jstrubberg wrote:We have some oddballs here in Missouri.

Aud
Conception
Knob Lick
Ink
Low Wassle
Neck City
Tiff
Village of Four


Ya forgot Peculiar... ;)
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Re: Any Different Place Names You Know Of ?

Postby pmowers » Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:48 am

You can go around the world and never leave Kentucky:
Cairo (pronounced Kay Row)
Versailles (pronounced Ver Sales)
Dundee, Edmonton, Berlin, Paris, London (amazingly pronounced the way everyone else says)

But I think a lot of the best names are in Australia. My favorite is Wagga Wagga, a town so nice they named it twice :lol:
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