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Old May 5, 2012 | 4:05 pm
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Bushygap (Northumberland, UK)

Climax (Minnesota, US)* just down the road from Fertile, MN ... the famous newspaper headline about a fatal car accident...."Fertile Woman Dies in Climax"

....ing, (Austria)

Grandpa's Knob (Rutland, Vermaont, USA

Maggie's Nipples (Wyoming, US)

and a lot more on this site
http://philbrodieband.com/jokes-jokes_town_names.htm
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Old May 5, 2012 | 7:56 pm
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Originally Posted by mapleg
Ah yes, Dildo Newfoundland.

If you go there, I also suggest driving to the following towns, all in the same province:

Blow Me Down
Come By Chance
Conception Bay
Also Heart's Content, Heart's Delight, Heart's Desire. (Only in Newfoundland.)
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Old May 5, 2012 | 8:59 pm
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Old May 5, 2012 | 9:33 pm
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There's a little suburb in the North of England called Pity Me!

Of course, with AY you can visit Hell by Sin

Also seen a Bum Bum Creek around the place too, here in Oz someplace
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Iron Knob, South Australia
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Old May 6, 2012 | 1:36 am
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Anus and Pussy, both in France
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Old May 6, 2012 | 1:38 am
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Some for the UK, some not quite towns but villages

Anton's Gout, near Boston, Lincolnshire.
Assloss, near Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
Balls Cross, West Sussex.
Batchelor's Bump, near Hastings, Sussex.
Bottom Flash, near Winsford, Cheshire
Brown Willy, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.
Bummers Hill, near Hare Street, Hertfordshire.
Cocklick End, near Slaidburn, Lancashire.
Cockup Bottom, near Bassenthwaite, Cumbria
Golden Balls, near Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire.
Lickey End, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
Minges, near Ware, Hertfordshire.
Pisser Clough, near Widdop, West Yorkshire.
Spunkie, near Lugton, Ayrshire
Twatt, on the Mainland of Orkney.
Wetwang, near Bridlington.
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Old May 6, 2012 | 12:29 pm
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Originally Posted by ms1664
Anus and Pussy, both in France
are we still talking about interesting town names? or the French presidential election today?
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Old May 6, 2012 | 11:14 pm
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Originally Posted by jjdub86
Southern Michigan is the proud home of Hell, Michigan, including its annual Run Through Hell foot race.
Hell can actually be a good place after all. Southern Michigan proved this. This is a rarity and very amusing.
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Old May 7, 2012 | 6:13 am
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Horse and Jockey, County Tipperary, Ireland
Sandwich, Kent, UK - and the nearby hamlet of Ham
(http://travel.webshots.com/photo/259...86624887AgAlNw)

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Old May 9, 2012 | 2:39 pm
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I've always been a fan of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. Hyphenated city names are rare and "Fuquay" sounds so dirty to boot.
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Old May 9, 2012 | 4:23 pm
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Originally Posted by frankmu
Michigan has some great town names. I remember driving past Climax, MI. There's Colon, MI south of it. Not a place, but exit 69 to Big Beaver Road on I75. Other Oregon villages include Drain and Remote.
Ugh, I was so excited to be able to post Climax, MI. Right outside Kalamazoo where I grew up!
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Old May 9, 2012 | 8:20 pm
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Knob Lick, MO
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Old May 10, 2012 | 3:22 am
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Pishill (so named because drovers on the way to London used to stop for a leak)
Lower/Middle/Upper Assendon
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Old May 10, 2012 | 11:24 am
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- Weed Spot, New York
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