Do you know of or live somewhere with a daft name? I know there's somwhere in the Scottish Islands called Twat. Yours?...

there's some bookstore in the states called Cocks i believe

I don't know about places, but you in the UK eat cow pies!

CarrieMpls said:

Stick to the point you loon! Only Desperate Dan eats cow pies. Such nonesense.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

i this ...

we used to winter camp here in girlscouts ... way back in the day


Hell, Michigan

Anyone who has driven from LA to Vegas knows this place..



Zzyzx, California is a settlement in San Bernardino County, California, formerly the site of the Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa and now the site of the Desert Studies Center. The area is also the location of Lake Tunedae, one of the refuge habitats of the endangered Mohave tui chub.

Zzyzx Road is a 4.5 mile/7.2 km long, part paved and part dirt, rural collector road in the Mojave Desert. It runs from Interstate 15 generally south to the Zzyzx settlement.

The name Zzyzx, pronounced /ˈzaɪˌzɪks/ (rhyming with "Isaac's", not "physics"), was given to the area in 1944 by Curtis Howe Springer, claiming it to be the last word in the English language.

there is a Beaver Crossing, Nebraska.

we've got lots of them here...
big beaver, eyebrow and elbow... love and of course...

There is a place near me called Jack's Bush

there's a town in iowa called what cheer.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

Nice one

There's also http://www.fucking.at/fucking/eOrt1.htm





Hi Martina

how about intercourse, pennsylvania

nakedpianoplayer said:

we have those here too! i've never been able to bring myself to actually walk into one!

fantasyislander said:

the name is so damn funny

I'm about to reveal something that I don't like to discuss...the name of my home town....the town with the longest single name in Iowa...


















Correctionville

The sign greatly over elaborates the recreational options of the town.

And before you ask, no, there's no prison there (just a High School). The reason behind the name can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ille,_Iowa


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Bangkok

I guess Phuket's kinda funny too if pronounced incorrectly.

The infamous Dildo, Newfoundland.

jone70 said:

holy crap, man! i'm from iowa too, and i've never heard of correctionville.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I know--you're from Des Moines, right? (I remember you mentioning it in some other threads.) I did my undergrad at Drake. C'ville (not to be confused with Centerville or Mechanicsville ) is about 45 minutes east of Sioux City on Highway 20. It's BORING AS HELL, I couldn't wait to leave, and I only go back for xmas. And when people ask where I grew up I just say, northwestern Iowa 'cause I try to avoid bring up "Correctionville" at all costs.

jone70 said:

oh, okay...so basically it's one of those absolute boonie towns that are out there. and yeah, i'd be totally willing to get the hell outta there too, if i were from there. that welcome sign just screams "false advertising". jog down our main street...and to somewhere else!

the closest i've ever been to living an iowan boonie life is when i lived in denison for 7 months when i was in job corps. man, that place was so dead.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Exactly. They think "jog down our main street" is a clever play on the fact there is a jog in the main street. There was also a gym for awhile that was called "The Jog Fitness Center" LAME. I didn't even live in town--I was stuck on a farm 3 miles from town. UGH.

I've driven through Denison many times on my way to DsM. Denison is HUGE compared to C'ville (which has a population 851, no stoplights or movie theaters or anything)! Now I'm in New York and I don't miss Iowa one damn bit. It's not my style...I knew from a very young age that I didn't belong there.

I am distressed for not finding a picture of FINGRINGHOE in Essex.