Quebec, you say?

List some places with improbable names; (Yes, this is cultural shortsightedness. I'm laughing at foreigners. They are free to laugh at names like 'Carswick' and 'Skegness'.)


Quebec.
Licking.
Booti Booti National Park.
Bongoville.
Hell For Certain.
Mars. (Pennsylvania.)
Sexsmith.

Obviously, I don't need to remind you to keep it clean. Yes, we all know about the places with rude names - keep those for not EoFF, because the mods are hardcore and don't tolerate anything hardcore. Capice? (Edit: Removed one which made the prior statement hypocritical.)

There was that really cool place in Austria

LAKE TITIKAKA!:D

Massachussetts:
Cummaquid, MA

Intercourse, PA

There was another really funny town name, but I forgot it. xD

Booger Hollow isn't too far from here.

And I quote "Population: 7 and one coon dog!"

Rancho Cucamonga.

Formerly, Cucamonga.

I liked Skegness :D
I always laughed at Weston-super-Mare when I was a kid. I imagined some mad superhero horse!

I have a vague memory of my teacher in Canadian History saying where they got Québec from, though I can no longer remember, perhaps from a Native American word...*looks it up* I am so used to the word that I find it quite natural.

Found it, for anyone who cares: "Algonquin word meaning "strait" or 'narrowing'"
Source: Wikipedia: Quebec

Bala Cynwyd, PA is the weirdest American city name I know. I mean, wtf did they come up with that name? Must have been founded by Welsh settlers.

My favourite is Ding Dong, Texas.

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I have a vague memory of my teacher in Canadian History saying where they got Québec from, though I can no longer remember, perhaps from a Native American word...*looks it up* I am so used to the word that I find it quite natural.

Found it, for anyone who cares: "Algonquin word meaning "strait" or 'narrowing'"
Source: Wikipedia: Quebec

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It's a lot less silly now that I know it's Native and not French. :(

Ah well, still silly.

Cape Disappointment.

Hellhole Bay, South Carolina.
Eek, Alaska.
Pee Pee, Ohio(lol, I'm four.)
Superior Bottom, West Virginia.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ers/mianus.jpg
You are exiting Mianus.

A few facts about Mianus.
Mianus is a small town.
There are people living in Mianus.
A bridge collapsed in Mianus.
http://www.accidents101.com/mianus_b...lapse_1983.jpg

Westward Ho!

Only town in England with an exclamation mark; when I first saw the coach going there, I thought it was some kind of special service covering towns to the west.

St Louis de Ha Ha. It is a place in Québec. Never been there though.

Dildo, Newfoundland!

http://www.part8.com/images/pictures/29.jpg

Boca Ratón, Florida. That's Spanish for "mouse mouth."

I thought that said moose mouth, and then I proceeded to wonder why floridians would have to worry about moose.

Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky
Ding Dong, Texas
http://www.floydpinkerton.net/fun/bigbone.jpg

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Dildo, Newfoundland!

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He stole my answer.

Uhm. Medicine Hat, Alberta.

a big list of em http://www.floydpinkerton.net/fun/citynames.html

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I thought that said moose mouth, and then I proceeded to wonder why floridians would have to worry about moose.

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It doesn't refer to an actual animal either way. Ratón was a colloquialism for "cowardly thief" when the place was named in the nineteenth century. And boca, or mouth, meant "inlet."

Man, the less you know, the more fun you have. Ain't it the truth.

ignorance is bliss :p

Clones,
Inch, (both in Ireland).

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He stole my answer.

Uhm. Medicine Hat, Alberta.

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HAH! I live a few hours from there!

Siksika Reserve (Grew up near there, btw.)

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Mars. (Pennsylvania.)

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Don't forget Intercourse, Pennsylvania!

Here's a pic of me (in the background) in a town I noticed on a map that Mum and I just had to make a quick detour to get a photo in.

I've been to Hell...

I swear, I could kill everyone in that town, and NO ONE would notice.

There's a town in Florida called Two Egg. They have an Outhouse Festival.

I also heard of a town in Montana called Joe.

There's a place called Gaylord close to where I live:tongue:

No Name, Colorado

We also have weird names of towns in Denmark... like these:


Tarm (which means intestine in Danish)
Sæd (which means sperm in Danish)
Lemvig (lem meaning limb and vig meaning creek...not so obvious)


There are more, but could not think of them..

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Clones,
Inch, (both in Ireland).

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Killcock, also in ireland

I think that Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion both win. Gotta hate Wales.

Ordinary
Burbon
The city of Town and Country
Grubville, MO

I think the New Englanders were doing some wishful thinking when they named a town in Vermont "Jamaica." Same with the town of "Peru."

There are also:

Rutland, VT
Braintree, VT
Tinmouth, VT

And I used to live in this town, which just has a fun name to say:

Winooski, VT

:D

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a big list of em http://www.floydpinkerton.net/fun/citynames.html

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Gaylordsville FTW! Ahah, that page is so funny.

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Westward Ho!

Only town in England with an exclamation mark; when I first saw the coach going there, I thought it was some kind of special service covering towns to the west.

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Thats also a street name near my old school.

How about this silly name:
Waldkatzenbach
(which directly translated from german is: Forest-cat-stream/lake)
Yep, my hometown :thumb: