Today's OT Challenge - Silly Town Names

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Today\'s OT Challenge - Silly Town Names

Last weekend we drove hours and hours to an auction, and while the auction was a waste of time, we can now say we have been to the following towns:

In Kentucky:

Summer Shade
Eighty Eight
Marrowbone
Static
Bug - my fave

In Tennesee: Squirrel Flat.

And as a bonus, Seventy Six, Decide and Ida, Ky were just down the road.


This complements our trip last year through Gnawbone, IN.


So whats' the oddest/silliest name of a town you have actually been to?

Hollis
 
Oh! Oh!

I can play this one!!

How about:

Fiddletown
Dry Diggins
Rough and Ready
Smartville
Volcano
Cool
Grizzly Flats
Pleasant Valley

Believe it or not, these are all towns right around where I live (California Gold Country).

:bouncy: Next....

~Maureen
 
A place I lived in for 12 months when at university - it is in Lancashire ;

<b>Ramsbottom</b>


Also a place in Yorkshire, where I stay on a holiday break (more a village/hamlet than a town) :

<b>Crackpot</b>
 
Hell, Michigan
Celebration, Florida
Cow, New Hampshire
Stinking Point, Virginia

I know there has to be one in Massachussets that I am forgetting but i got so used to names maybe i thought they were normal.

Oh, and then the fictitious nickname I give for my town...West Central Frogstump

Hollis, isn't there also something like a Bonelick national park? Driving through KY and TN we thought we saw something like that.

Chris
 
You know, the American towns really have an inbuilt advantage when it comes to daft names. Let's face it, it was an overpreponderance of situations where some guys in wagons turned up and had to pull something out of their *ss to call the new establishment (she says stereotyping wildly).

I think I'm with Margaret on the best region in the UK for names - it's the Norse input in the North.

So, near my home town in Yorks:
<b>Blubberhouses</b> (which is on the way to):
<b>Appletreewick</b> (Viking name, Viking farms, Viking people with honey-coloured hair - great pub!)
And then a few dales over there is: <b>Killinghall</b> (hmm, hearty Vikings butchering their supper?)
And there's a posh school in the remote...
<b>Giggleswick</b>
while Lawrence Sterne got bored enough to write a looooong book in picturesque:
<b>Coxwold</b>

I'm sure I'll think of a few more. It's hard to isolate them as 'wierd' when they're kind of embedded in your brain as a local map. I love the rhythm of them, though - totally different from cosy home counties locations.

Oh, a few more I used to know in North Yorks:
<b>Fountains</b> (as in Fountains Abbey, one of my favourite places)
<b>Follyfoot</b> (used to be a quiet rural local for horse-riding - they've laid a bypass through the fields now though).
<b>Kirkby Overblow</b> far more romantic than it is - does have a castle, though.
<b>Bishop Monkton</b> which I like purely on the grounds that it sounds like a bizarre pre-dissolution cosy church set-up (but, great pub, nice ford, probably insane property prices now)
<b>Askham Brian</b> and <b> Askham Richard</b> (one of them has an agricultural college, can't remember which)

Actually, now I come to think of it, part of 'Appletreewick' must be Roman (the 'wick' part), and there's a Roman lead mine/camps nearby...

(It's all coming back to me:)
<b>Thruscross</b> reservoir (under which there is a drowned village that resurfaces only in droughts) in the <b>Washburn</b> valley next to the river <b>Nidd</b> between which is <b>Rocking</b> Moor and <b>Timble</b> (which I think has a pub, and that's about it).
 
I love those English names.


There is indeed a Big Bone Lick State Park, at Beaverlick, KY. ( dinosaur bones at a salt lick, I do believe. ) It's near Mud Lick Creek and Big Bone Creek, too.

Hollis
 
There is a It, Mississippi, about 10 miles from my hometown. If you blink your eyes you will miss "It.":hysterical:
 
Here's a great little column called Lick Towns - Hollis' 'lick towns' reminded me of it. It is from a friend of mine's website. This was written by a guest columnist (who is actually his webmaster)! Lots of great and funny "Lick Towns"! :USING:

Enjoy!

~Maureen
 
Don't forget <b> Intercourse Pa</b>

there is also <b>Bird in Hand Pa </b>

These Pa places are all in Pa dutch country.
 
I was on a road trip in Canada many, many years ago and we drove through the town "Ladysmith." Not that the name is unusual but there was a big sign at the entrance of the town that proclaimed,

[align=center]Now Entering Ladysmith[/align]

and I just thought, oh my! I could just hear the highway workers laughing as they put that up. I think I even took a picture of it.

Which reminds me:

Forks, Washington
 
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