Stupid Place Names

[Lamsey]

While in the youth hostel at Rowardennan recently on a hill-walking trip, I came across a tourist brochure and decided to have a look. A little place near the north shore of Scotland caught my eye and caused me to snigger regularly for approximately 3 days afterwards.

This attraction, the largest coastal cave in Britain, is called "Smoo Cave". It's even got a website (http://www.smoocave.org/).

Post your own local (or non-local if you prefer) stupid placenames, and link 'em if you can.





For the record, the longest place name in Britain is not the oft-quoted Llanfairpwllgwyngÿllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogoch but is actually another Welsh village, Gorsafawddacha'idraigddanheddogleddollonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion. I have a photo somewhere of me standing next to the sign at the train station (obviously taken from a distance :rolleyes: ).

[J'Pol]

Milngavie - Pronounced Mill Guy.

That's just stupid.

[djweiser]

Cockamouth


Lake District i believe.

[Lamsey]

Oh, there's a place near London called "Dorking" :D

[Mad Cat]

Tits in Cornwall I think.

[djweiser]

Theres a place near Merry Hill Shopping Centre (Midlands, UK) called FAT FANNYS FISH & CHIPS


:helpsmile:

[djweiser]

http://www.djweiser.com/uploads/twat.jpg

[Mad Cat]

Originally posted by Lamsey@12 April 2004 - 12:37
Rowardennan
You got one right there.

I've been to the longest named place too. I remember a train station too.

[fred devliegher]

There's a village called "Reet" - Dutch for "Arse".

"Okselaar (http://www.scherpenheuvel-zichem-info.be/Zichem/Okselaar.htm)" actually means "the hair in one's armpit".

And then there's http://www.ulrp.com/photos/graphics/austria2.jpg

[DanB]

Originally posted by Lamsey@12 April 2004 - 13:52
Oh, there's a place near London called "Dorking" :D
Wtf? I don&#39;t live too far away from there <_<

[DarthInsinuate]

The town of Reigate is at the bottom of Cockshot Hill (http://oldreigate.com/data/cockshothill.html)

[Skweeky]

I don&#39;t know, I think all places in Scotland sre not pronounced the way they should be pronounced. That provided ample entertainment on the Pub Crawl where they all made me read things out loud they knew I wouldn&#39;t get right. Usually followed by Lamsey screaming &#39;OWNED&#33;&#33;&#33;&#39; <_<

[Lamsey]

Originally posted by Skweeky@12 April 2004 - 14:55
I don&#39;t know, I think all places in Scotland sre not pronounced the way they should be pronounced. That provided ample entertainment on the Pub Crawl where they all made me read things out loud they knew I wouldn&#39;t get right. Usually followed by Lamsey screaming &#39;OWNED&#33;&#33;&#33;&#39; <_<
It&#39;s glas-go, not glas-gou :lol:

[Alucard1475]

I found this;


Weird funny place names
Would you like to live here? These are names of actual locations:

Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)
Bastard (Norway)
Beaver (Oklahoma, USA)
Beaver Head (Idaho, USA)
Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)
Chinaman&#39;s Knob (Australia)
Climax (Colorado, USA)
Cunt (Spain)
Cunter (Switzerland)
Dikshit (India)
Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada)
Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border)
Dongo (Congo - Democratic Republic)
Effin (Limerick, Ireland)
Fuku (Shensi, China)
Fukue (Honshu, Japan)
Fukui (Honshu, Japan)
Fukum (Yemen)
Hold With Hope (Greenland)
Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)
Little Dix Village (West Indies)
Lord Berkeley&#39;s Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)
Middle Intercourse Island (Australia)
Muff (Northern Ireland)
Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)
Pis Pis River (Nicaragua)
Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)
Seymen (Turkey)
Shafter (California, USA)
Shag Island (Indian Ocean)
Shitlingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)
Tittybong (Australia)
Tong Fuk (Japan)
Turdo (Romania)
Twatt (Orkney, UK)
Wank (Germany)
Wankendorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Wankener (India)
Wankie (Zimbabwe)
Wankie Colliery (Zimbabwe)
Wanks River (Nicaragua)
Wankum (Germany)
Wet Beaver Creek (Australia)


:lol: :lol:

SOURCE (http://www.thatsweird.net/facts9.shtml)

[MagicNakor]

Well, here are some I&#39;ve been to:

Clo-oose
Osoyoos
Kamloops
Come By Chance
Conception Bay
Dildo
Heart&#39;s Content
Garden of Eden
Eureka
Shag Harbour
Saint-Loius-du-Ha-Ha&#33;
Poissant
Eden
Ochiichagwebabigoining
Swastika
Flin Flon
Bigger
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Medicine Hat
Rocky Mountain House
Seven Persons
Beaverdell
Mission
Salmon Arm
Spuzzum
Squamish
Skookumchuck

:ninja:

[Canti]

BALLS FALLS (http://www.ghosttownpix.com/ontario/towns/ballsfal.shtml)

http://www.vaxxine.com/heritagestories/Images/ballsfallsb.jpg

[djweiser]

Originally posted by Canti@12 April 2004 - 16:28
BALLS FALLS (http://www.ghosttownpix.com/ontario/towns/ballsfal.shtml)

http://www.vaxxine.com/heritagestories/Images/ballsfallsb.jpg
:lol: :lol:

[Nightwolf]

Actual towns near me (in Eastern Pennsylvania)...

Virginville
Intercourse
Blue Ball

Then of course there&#39;s Beaver College, which recently changed their name to Arcadia...

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/11/20/embarrassingbeaver.ap/