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Re: town names

Posted: January 7, 2013, 7:04 pm
by Shadow
I Ran Across This Photo. The Mechanicsburg Gatekeepers LOL... Image

Re: town names

Posted: January 7, 2013, 10:02 pm
by Alan Mclennan
NZ has a town called Whykickamoocow, we have a town called Dunedoo pronounced Dunn ee doo!, a dunny is a slang word for outside toilet.

Re: town names

Posted: January 9, 2013, 12:41 pm
by Lowell
In Kentucky there is a town called Philpot and another named Monkeys Eyebrow. In Indiana theres one named Birds Eye.

Re: town names

Posted: January 9, 2013, 2:28 pm
by Lowell
Failed to mention Santa Claus Indiana.

Re: town names

Posted: January 9, 2013, 4:32 pm
by kstones63
We went through HOOKER Oklahoma on the way to SlickStock. I was watching for the next town to be Jigalo.
We have Why & Nowhere here in Arizona.

Kevin

Re: town names

Posted: January 9, 2013, 7:37 pm
by Alan Mclennan
:P No one has mentioned, Truth or Consequences in New Mexico yet, Hot Springs to old time residents! :lol:

Re: town names

Posted: January 9, 2013, 7:40 pm
by Toyz
Then there's our southerly neighbor, Lake Jackson, Texas, with street names such as Any Way, and This Way, which intersects That Way. I have found His Way, but have yet to locate Wrong Way!
Paul

Re: town names

Posted: January 9, 2013, 9:48 pm
by Alan Mclennan
Toyz wrote:Then there's our southerly neighbor, Lake Jackson, Texas, with street names such as Any Way, and This Way, which intersects That Way. I have found His Way, but have yet to locate Wrong Way!
Paul

No Way!..................... :lol:

Re: town names

Posted: January 9, 2013, 9:52 pm
by ezernut9mm
you don't say

Re: town names

Posted: January 10, 2013, 2:44 am
by quietwyatt
Let's not forget about Bird In Hand and Middlesex also here in PA.

Re: town names

Posted: January 10, 2013, 4:54 am
by *motor*mount*
maybe yall need to drive in south louisiana close to the coast them towns all have french or spanish or italin names, i wouldnt even ask what they mean i would just keep driving.

Re: town names

Posted: January 12, 2013, 10:43 pm
by Brians1966
Southeast of KC near Truman Lake - Tightwad Mo. with Mizer Ave and Penny-pincher Lane

Re: town names

Posted: January 12, 2013, 11:12 pm
by shipwrecked
years ago, to get from my duty station on the Oregon Coast to the interstate, I had to drive thru a town called Drain. Down to Drain on the way home.

Re: town names

Posted: January 12, 2013, 11:37 pm
by dbrady
There is a Mechanicsville in the Southern part Maryland. I specifically mention it as Southern as those of use from that area want to be distingushed from the nut jobs in the rest of the state :)

Re: town names

Posted: January 13, 2013, 12:13 am
by ezernut9mm
Brians1966 wrote:Southeast of KC near Truman Lake - Tightwad Mo. with Mizer Ave and Penny-pincher Lane
good one's brian. i always wanted to start a savings account at "tightwad bank".

there is also "racket" right down the road. i wouldn't want to get in trouble in "racket". sounds like a money sieve.

Re: town names

Posted: January 13, 2013, 1:33 pm
by Lowell
My Uncle used to snowbird in Why Arizona .

Re: town names

Posted: January 13, 2013, 1:54 pm
by jamesdfo
In the early eighties, we used to go down to Spokane for the AHRA drags in August, and on the way back, almost to the B.C. Border, there was a little place call Good Grief, Idaho. All that was there was little on wood building, which was a BAR.....and both times we tried to stop in, it was closed:(.....seems the owners were pretty casual about business hours:):)

James

Re: town names

Posted: January 13, 2013, 2:15 pm
by Uncle Skip
On the Atchafalaya Basin bridge on the way to Baton Rouge from Lafayette, there's a town called Grosse Tete.
No Chris.
It means Fat Head. 8)

Re: town names

Posted: January 13, 2013, 7:26 pm
by 66fordtrucknut
dbrady wrote:There is a Mechanicsville in the Southern part Maryland. I specifically mention it as Southern as those of use from that area want to be distingushed from the nut jobs in the rest of the state :)
The Eastern shore is the same way, we don't like to associate with the rest of the State, I wish they would tear down the Bay Bridge and leave us alone.

Re: town names

Posted: January 13, 2013, 7:53 pm
by ICEMAN6166
we passed by Sexsmith, AB,Canada on the way down here.

smith at the end of a word usually indicates a trade, blacksmith,etc.