Re: silly place names

There are two villages near Eastbourne called Upper Dicker and Lower
Dicker, it looks like I will have to ride to them now for them to
qualify, and there is an area in Friston Forest where I muni alot which
up and till recently was called Butchershole Bottom, but then they
changed it to Buthershole, the spoil sports.

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How about Silly, Belgium? Never been there, but there is a brewery
there. 😄

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I remember doing a bus tour that went along the Piddle River and one of
the stops was in Tincleton, when I was in the south of England for a
week long Ballroom Dance event. There is also Piddlehinton, Puddleton,
and Turners Puddle (obviously, Turner was a bad boy).

Also nearby is the Cerne Abbas Giant, you know, the one with the seven
foot penis. He might be the source of the Piddle River:eek: 😉

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climax, michigan

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sounds like a good thread for the "Just Conversation" forum...

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man o war (i forget if its a street ave drive road or what) I'll get a
picture of it some time.

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mfrobert said:

*climax, michigan *

I grew up in Kalamazoo and always giggled at the "Climax--1-1/2 miles"
sign.

Intercourse, PA

Bird-in-Hand, PA

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It's not really a silly name, but I do get funny looks from people when
I tell them that I go riding at Vietnam on the weekends.

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Kayote said:

*You realize there are Americans posting here, right? Man, we got the
silly place names. I haven't ridden there, but I have been through
Toad Suck Arkansas.

Silly, Innit? *

No fair, I wanted to do Toad Suck, Arkansas. Okay then how about
Potscamp (pots camp) Mississippi.

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Dorking in Surrey, England, has to be on the list. (But English people
don't seem to chuckle ... is a dork not a willie over there? ... or are
they just very good at acting grown up?)

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Mianus, or Myanus...

There are sevral Mianuses and a Myanus in Alabama too.

I didn't know myanus was in so many places!

/had to be done...

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mucRider said:

*No fair, I wanted to do Toad Suck, Arkansas. *

I just laughed at Toad Suck for a good minute. Anmd its still funny.

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"Danny Colyer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

joemarshall wondered:

Quoted message said:

This is the place to find silly place names (in the UK, anyway):
<URL:http://places.jump-around.com/closest/>

OMG the local silly placenames worry me: what were they doing when they
named the villages? I wonder if it is typical here in the Uk to have so
many: a local search on that URL came up with:
Butty Moss (map)
13.3 miles
Nob End (map)
13.5 miles
[censored] Slack (map)
17.3 miles
Ramsbottom (map)
17.9 miles
Upperthong (map)
18.7 miles
Shatton Moor (map)
19.0 miles
Bottom Flash (map)
21.3 miles
Hole Bottom (map)
21.9 miles
Penistone (map)
22.8 miles

cjd said:

*Dorking in Surrey, England, has to be on the list. (But English
people don't seem to chuckle ... is a dork not a willie over there?
... or are they just very good at acting grown up?) *

Er, no it isn't. I'd never hard of that use of the work dork. Over here
a dork is one who is socially awkward, like a geek but with out the
conotation of cleverness.
So no Dorking isnt particualry funny (Ha Ha) as a name, no more so than
Woking and Leatherhead which are just up the road.
Sarah

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Not hilariously funny, but always good for a laugh, is Crapstone in
Devon. I work there and sometimes ride a unicycle to work, so that can
officially count.

I'm also pretty close to Brown [censored] on Dartmoor, but I have never
ridden there (it's pretty remote).

When I lived in the Bristol area I always thought Nempnet Thrubwell to
be quite amusing - but again I've never been there on a uni.

Rob

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there is a street a few miles away from where i used to live called 'The
Knob'

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just remembered another

in Cathays (a district of Cardiff) there is a street called '[censored]
Street'

childish but i had to chuckle to myself

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In high school, I lived in Lusby, Maryland. People from Lusby are of
course called Lusbyans. Calling ourselves by such a name wasn't
anything out of ordinary when I lived there.

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Cheesequake, NJ.

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Hhaha..ok, theres a place in the states called Intercourse,
Pennsylvania., but i'm not sure witch state...and theres a building here
thats on the corner of Rusholm and Avenue P....so your like "yah i'm
going to rush home and pee"

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