Posted on 05/24/2019 5:21:13 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
These are real places.
Peculiar, Missouri
Tightwad, Missouri
Why, Arizona
Boring, Oregon
Intercourse, Pennsylvania
The Bottle, Alabama
Oatmeal, Texas
Eek, Alaska
Hell, Michigan
And, my favorite: My Large Intestine, Texas
(What is it with Missouri and Texas?)
Bugtussle, Arkansas
Soddy-Daisy, TN
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In the mid 80’s I lived in Caldwell, maybe 20 miles from Dimebox. Drove through there lots of times. Worked on plenty chainsaws for people from Dimebox, it’s a tiny town on Hwy 21 with no red lights or stop signs, one convenience store. Old country store modernized...I don’t remember the population, under 500 I think, I want to say around 200.
Lots of people around that area are of Germanic or Bohemian descent. A man we knew well died at age 86 and people were saying “he was so young”...they regularly live to be over 100. My mother worked in a dry cleaner, the owner was 76 and got around better than I did when I was 50. Another fellow bottled up 700 gallons of honey the first year I lived there, by hand, by himself. About 5’6”, you wouldn’t believe he was 73. Looked maybe 60...only the grey hair gave him away. I was 30, he could probably out work me...and they were still sharp at age 95, not addle-brained like Hillary and Pelosi...these people were still quite lucid at 90 - 95 years old. Nobody thought the old guy at the dry cleaner should retire at 88...and that was very common...85 and still doing his own book keeping...
The Oktoberfest was small and a good time, best Baklava you ever saw...Caldwell was one block square, with a few businesses one block in each of 2 directions, that was about it. One restaurant, a DQ, 2 convenience stores, and everybody around the county did business there, the only place to go...everything else was about like Dimebox.
Dimebox was a half dozen buildings and a sign...almost literally a “blink and you missed it” town. Several of those in that area. I also worked at a cattle auction in a couple of them, barely a square block...like Milano and Somerville.
Correction: There are two Bugtussle towns, one in KY and one in OK, but not AR.
Sleepy Eye, MN
I’ve known some people I would consider a**h*le babies.
Monkey’s Eyebrow, KY
Cereal AB, Moose Jaw SK
I can’t believe Toad Suck, Arkansas didn’t make the list.
I always wanted to develop a big town next to Kissimmee, Florida and name it Yafool. That way it would become the Kissimmee-Yafool area.
Extra Credit: What was it originally called?
Some travelers call it "torque," as they are misinterpreting the freeway sign that says "T OR C."
Hopeulikit, Georgia
That particular area of south central/south east PA has a number of "cute" names. In addition to the aforementioned Blue Ball, Climax, Intercourse and Bird-In-Hand, there is Highmount, Paradise, and Mount Joy.
I think further down the road from Intercourse and Blue Ball, PA is a town called Climax.
I once sent a female co-worker in Michigan
into hysterical floor-rolling convulsions by
pulling out a road map and proving to her that there
was indeed a town named Shy Beaver, Pennsylvania.
Humptulips, WA.
It’s a Native American name, no idea what it means.
Back in the 90’s, there was a comedy show on KING-TV in Seattle called ‘Almost Live’. One segment they had was ‘Town slogans’. In my opinion, the funniest one was “Humptulips...and get fined $500.”
Statesboro boy here.
Hot springs
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