Mental Floss has compiled a list of the funniest town names in the US. As listicles go this one is very lazy. Not only is Bugtussle the go-to for Kentucky on every other article of this type it isn’t even the most interesting in a state with Possum Trot and Rabbit Hash. Not to mention a place where I once looked at a house, Monkey’s Eyebrow.
I know you can do better, DeadSplinters. And Europe has got to have some sillier names than anything we’ve got here in the US or Canada. Talk about it, talk about.
…there’s a lot in the UK despite being a fairly little island, mostly…in fact douglas adams & john lloyd used existing place names for the words they then “defined” in the meaning of liff
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff
…can’t pick one off the top of my head but it’s a fun read & some really feel like we do in fact need a word for that?
That looks delightful, will check it out, thanks.
I’ve been to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
and driven on I-395 past Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chaubunagungamaug
😳
I like that the link for the first says it’s sometimes shortened to Llanfair. SOMETIMES? When we you need to spout off the full name? 😂
Fugging, er Fucking Austria
Come-By-Chance Nfld
Climax, Sask
I think there’s a couple of Climax towns in the US too. I really like Fugging, Austria.
I don’t know, Canada has a pretty good one!
although, Ireland is pretty tough to beat!
https://www.irishstar.com/travel/ireland/slutsend-bastardstown-here-weirdest-rudest-30651187
Hollywood is a natural for sister city to Dildo.
I don’t live too far from Coxsackie, New York, and even better, there’s a hamlet within the town called Climax. If that doesn’t work for you, we also have a Butternuts and a Horseheads for ya.
The Dutch were the first Euros to settle in the region, and we have a lot of Dutch names for things here, so a lot of our rivers are “kills” and that’s always kinda funny if you don’t know why: Catskill, Fishkill, Peekskill, Cobleskill.
we only use one l for kil tho….and coz dutch sucks…it has different meanings depending on how you use the word….
Butternuts is my new favorite town name. 😂
I had a client, years ago, who I sold some of the butternut squash I grew to. When I handed them over, I said, “here’s the butternuts.”
He said, “that’s what my wife calls me.”
Thing is: I knew his wife and I could see that being true.
its down south
we have funny town names here….but they are all in dutch…
I’m sure everyone there is embarrassed to be from America. I know many of us here are.
eh…its down south….any embarassment they might feel they smooth over by daydrinking
its not acceptable here in the north…down south…a lunch time pint or two is totally fine
we’re like….2 different countries…despite being tiny
the south is more fun
I knew which place would be Idaho’s before even opening the listicle: Dickshooter.
I have a friend who jokes about opening a liquor store in Athol, Idaho, just so he can have T-shirts that say “Athol Liquors” (say it out loud).
He should make the t shirts anyway!
That was a lazy list.
Missouri has gems like Knob Lick, Licking, and Tightwad.
You know they just pulled up an old Thrillist article and copy and pasted.
Within 5 miles of my place, there is a town called No Business and another called Dismal. I get the feeling they were trying to discourage people from moving there even though they’re in quite a nice area. Hill people are built different.
Dismal is a fantastic name. I wanna move there.
While you’re there you can visit Dismal Falls and Dismal Creek. And it gets better. All these places are in Bland County. Honestly.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/gwj/recreation/hiking/recarea/?recid=79951&actid=50
Of course they are! 😂
Of course they hit Blue Ball and Intercourse, but missed Bird-in-Hand, Paradise, Fertility, Bareville, and Mount Joy. A fun came is to use all of them in a Mad Libs style sentence.
PA has has some really good town names, like Slippery Rock.
One of my sisters went to Slippery Rock. Ted Knight, of the Mary Tyler Moore show, had his own TV show for a while, can’t remember the name, and his character would wear college jerseys. He wore a Slippery Rock on one episode and it made everyone in Western PA happy.
Too Close for Comfort. I loved that show.
Florida isn’t great at this. Most are just weird.
Bagdad, Dogtown, Festus, Fluffy, Lone Cabbage, Mayo, Lorida, Needmore, Possum Bluff, Roach Branch, Two Egg, Sopchoppy (my FIL grew up there).
That’s apart from Native American names that nobody from elsewhere can pronounce: Kissimmee, Chuluota, Withlacoochee, Miccosukee, Pahokee, Panasofkee, Thonotosassa, Immokalee, Homosassa. That list goes on forever.
Dogtown sounds like either the very best place to live or the very worst.
Missouri has a Festus, too!
It is a … special place… and probably a lot of Floridians would feel quite at home there.
Our Festus is up in the Panhandle so … yeah.