Interesting city and/or street names

[Mark Reccord]

Originally Posted by Febs

I grew up in King of Prussia, PA.

I stayed in a hotel there one night after a gig in Manayunk. I don't remember why we stayed that far away. And I thought both King of Prussia and Manayunk were both pretty funny place names.

[emdsd]

Thought of another one from my old homestead...River Styx Rd just east of Medina, Ohio.

[slobake]

Originally Posted by emdsd

Thought of another one from my old homestead...River Styx Rd just east of Medina, Ohio.

Good place to go for a dip, make sure you get your whole foot in the water.

[Richland123]

[Mark Reccord]

There's a waterfall near here called "Pissing Mare Falls."

[Sneakypete]

Originally Posted by iamlowsound

There is a small hamlet near me that is called Dorking.

lowsound

Possibly named after Dorking in Surrey here in the UK. There's small town in the north called Thwing.

[elgecko]

There's a ghost town near Death Valley called Ballarat, named after the city in Australia. It always makes my inner-Beavis & Butthead chuckle.

[PWRL]

Originally Posted by slobake

Good place to go for a dip, make sure you get your whole foot in the water.

Clever!

[fmoore200]

In Puerto Rico, there is an avenue fagot.

Now before you go saying PR is a island of homophobes, it was name after Emilio Fagot, who was the mayor of the city of Ponce in the late twenties:

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Either ways, that's not how you spell faggot.

[fmoore200]

I think you get the point anyway :what:

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by ulrich

Yippee-ki-yay bass player.

"Yippee kiyay" is probably a bastardized, truncated version of the line "yippee yi yo kiyay" from the song "I'm an Old Cowhand," popularized by Bing Crosby in the '30s. It really pisses me off every time I hear "yippee kiyay," because I think some semi-literate screen writer remembers hearing something like that and didn't do his homework to get the line right.

[jtb]

Strictly speaking, I live in (deep breath) Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit, but most people know it as Bangkok.

The UK has plenty of oddities - Wetwang, Beaumont cum Moze, Stiffkey, Black Notley, Upper Dicker and Shitterton for example.

[Jazz Ad]

There are movies about this. Well, there is at least one.

[emdsd]

OK, I remember another one from my travels...just outside the small town of Waverly OH as you travel down US 23 there is a sign announcing 'Pee Pee Creek'. There was also a 'Pee Pee Gas' filling station, though it's been a while and I'm not sure if it is still there.

[Richland123]

[Ayce]

All roads lead to.....

[TolerancEJ]

Originally Posted by Richland123

That's gotta be confusing for delivery drivers.

[Richland123]

Originally Posted by TolerancEJ

That's gotta be confusing for delivery drivers.

What I think makes that even more confusing is that two of those roads are South routes in different directions and one is a West Route in the opposite direction of a South route.

[DanAleks]

When I lived in Columbus OH, my office was in a bank on the corner of Gay and High.