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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...

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

No one has mentioned, Truth or Consequences in New Mexico yet, Hot Springs to old time residents!

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!.....................

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.

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.