America's oddest town names

[BoobieCootie 0]

Here's and interesting read I found on towns with some pretty odd names.

As much as Federal Way, WA sounds alot like some beaurauratic hangout, I'm kind of glad that I don't live in Stuck, WA (NE of Tacoma). Although it'd be really funny to live in a city called Nuttsville, VA

I sure hope this isn't an April Fool's joke. Then I am a fool by a factor of 2

[kingbunky 3]

you want odd town names? check out a mapp of newfoundland sometime. how'd you like to say you were from dildo? or conception bay? or joe batt's arm?

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[aero04 0]

There's a town in southeast Texas called Cut & Shoot. Drove through it once, nice little town...

[BikerBabe 0]

Nope, they're real.

Here we have good old T or C, otherwise known as Truth or Consequences, NM.

Named for the old game show. It used to be called "Hot Springs", but they changed the name to T or C, well...this is from the chamber of commerce website:

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Then in 1950, NBC television and radio producer Ralph Edwards, on the 10th anniversary of the Truth or Consequences radio program, called his staff together and said, "I wish that some town in the United States liked and respected our show so much that it would like to change it's name to 'Truth or Consequences.'" On hearing the proposition, the New Mexico State Tourist Bureau relayed the news to the manager of the Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce and the news spread like wildfire.

Here was an opportunity to advertise the city and it's resources free of charge! Better still, no longer was our city to be confused with that "other one" in Arkansas and the others throughout the nation (California alone has more than 30 towns called "Hot Springs").

So, in a special city election, 1,294 of the town's residents voted for the change to "Truth or Consequences." On the other hand, 295 area residents opposed the change and a protest was filed, so the city returned to the polls and again voted- by a margin greater than four to one- to go ahead with the name change.

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[billvon 2,473]

I always liked Boring, Oregon.

[hisgoofyness 0]

I grew up in Suck Creek, TN...

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[Lindsey 0]

We have Cooterneck, Bucksnort, and Toad Suck in Arkansas....

Lindsey

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[skyboyblue 0]

Gayville, south dakota. Hay capitol of the world!

[chaz 0]

How about High Point and Climax in North Carolina?

[BoobieCootie 0]

My all time favorite is has to be Weed, CA.

I drove through it on my way to Seattle in '97. Damn! I should have pulled off by the side of I-5 and took a picture

[GrumpySmurf 0]

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[CrazyIvan 0]

Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey

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[n2skdvn 0]

Bush,Lousiana

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[SkyDolphin 0]

Something like this?

Rhonda

[bvsdjumper 0]

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...just a few miles in Pennsylvania.
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[BoobieCootie 0]

It'd be funny going to that court for possessing cannabis

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We have Cooterneck, Bucksnort, and Toad Suck in Arkansas

I believe there's a Booger Hollow, also.
Wendy W.

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[kingbunky 3]

oh yeah, forgot "Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!" in quebec (spelled with the exclamation marks)

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[Beeron 0]

Beaver, OK ...."Boise City Licks Beaver in State Championship"

B~

[kallend 1,679]

Intercourse, PA and Climax, MI are cool

In England there are some funny ones too - Ugley (home of the Ugley Women's Club), Upper Peeover and Lower Peeover, Cold Christmas and Much Hadham, Christmas Pie (near Guilford).

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[moodyskydiver 0]

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There's a town in southeast Texas called Cut & Shoot.

Theres also a Gun Barrel City,Tx not too far from my hometown.

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[CrazyIvan 0]

What about that town up in Canada 'Medicine Hat'

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[billvon 2,473]

I grew up near Hicksville, NY. (Billy Joel's from Hicksville but he always claimed he was from Oyster Bay.) It's always fun to listen to the out of towners massacre the indian names we have on long island:

Cutchogue
Patchouge
Yaphank
Ronkonkoma
Matinecock
Mineola

[racer42 0]

Don't forget Dimebox,Tx.

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[CrazyIvan 0]

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Don't forget Dimebox,Tx.

Or Willacoochie, GA

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