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Amaruu
June 29th, 2004, 04:42 AM
Wank (pic courtesy of Justme) and Fucking. Two legitimate town names.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=113498

gough
June 29th, 2004, 06:46 AM
Classic!

What about "mooball" (pronounced "Mobil") in Northern NSW? :lol:

T-roc
June 29th, 2004, 06:49 AM
there is a town in Austira called FUCK
lol

Amaruu
June 29th, 2004, 07:10 AM
Not Fuck, but Fucking. Btw, I forgot to mention the town called Twatt, also in the above link.

Dilaz89
June 29th, 2004, 07:15 AM
theres a country town in WA called pissieville!:D

Fabian
June 29th, 2004, 07:40 AM
there is a town in Austira called FUCK
lol

And there is a Chinese provience known as Fukien. It's located in the southern part of the country.

SydneyDude
June 29th, 2004, 02:39 PM
ive got an even funnier one!

There is a town in NSW somewhere between Sydney and Newcastle called... wait for it.... TORONTO! hahahahaa

lol just kiddin canucks, ur alrite ;)

Macca-GC
June 29th, 2004, 02:42 PM
Then there's Intercourse, Pennsylvania

everywhen
June 29th, 2004, 06:41 PM
iīve read a couple of names in australia that sound pretty funny indeed like:

coolangatta

waga waga

wollongong

kakadu and many more


but how bout these ones

tarapoto, peru (in spanish would be like butt explosions)

babahoyo, ecuador ( saliva hole in spanish)

and the all times funniest uagadugu

the thing is that some names of cities sound pretty funny in other languages

the name i donīt like is hong kong, sounds like king kong

JayT
June 30th, 2004, 02:48 AM
"Burpengary" - suburb north of Brisbane.

jt

ABS
June 30th, 2004, 12:41 PM
There's also a Gaythorne in Brisbane.

SydneyDude
June 30th, 2004, 12:51 PM
what about cockburn in WA?

Dilaz89
June 30th, 2004, 03:03 PM
its pronounced coburn

SydneyDude
June 30th, 2004, 03:11 PM
its pronounced coburn

its still funny tho :)

Macca-GC
June 30th, 2004, 03:27 PM
Mooloolaba.

Americans pronounce it Moo, Loo, la, ba

when it really is Mool, ool, aba

smeghead
June 30th, 2004, 06:02 PM
Places in Australia with the word 'bong'
Bedgerebong
Bong Bong
Bong Bong Waterfall
Bong Bong Reservoir
Bong Bong Pass
Bong Bong Mountain
Bong Bong Creek
Bongalong
Bongongalong
Bongonalong Creek
Cooranbong
Piambong
Weabong
Woodenbong
Wybong
Burbong
Tombong
Little Billabong
Bearbong
Bung Bong
Titybong
Humpybong
Milbong
Bongeen
Bongaree
Kybong
Goomeribong
Bullenbong
Timbrebongie
Billabong
Bongan Well
Bongaralady Creek
Bongil Bongil National Park
Bongin Bongin Beach
Bongin Bongin Bay
Bongmillerer Creek
Bongwarra
Bongooleeche
Bongon Head
Bongon Lagoon
Bongon Beach
Bongo
Bongmollow

swifty78
July 1st, 2004, 01:50 AM
isnt there a place called Wattanobbi ? if thats how its spelt

Fabian
July 1st, 2004, 06:58 AM
There is, just north of Wyong on the NSW Central Coast

Also I'm aware of Bong Bong Road, which is in Mittagong.

AG
July 1st, 2004, 09:14 AM
For some reason I have always found the name of Rooty Hill in Sydney's west a little amusing.

Amaruu
July 1st, 2004, 12:34 PM
Lol, Rooty Hill.

Adder-Laid
July 1st, 2004, 01:19 PM
Bongon Head
Bongon Lagoon
Bongon Beach
classy names, those ;)


As for another funny one, just south of Adelaide - Myponga

Macca-GC
July 3rd, 2004, 10:26 AM
Here's one--Melbourne. Funny isn't it.

Driving south on the Pacific Highway in Tweed Heads, there's a place called Sexton Hill. On the sign, the t has been scraped off.

Fabian
July 3rd, 2004, 10:36 AM
Curl Curl and Dee Why

They are next to each other on Sydney's northern beaches.

maybach
July 4th, 2004, 06:43 AM
Gold Coast was certainly cleverly named to attract the Japanese and the Asians... It worked and it's pretty funny in that sense.

Macca-GC
July 10th, 2004, 05:50 PM
The Gold Coast was named that by early property developers in the 1920's because they were making so much money.

Randwicked
July 11th, 2004, 02:43 AM
Useless Loop, WA
Spit Junction, NSW
1770, QLD
Unnamed Conservation Park, SA (that's its official name)

Macca-GC
July 11th, 2004, 05:18 AM
hehehe ^Town of 1770. That's a hole.

There's The Spit here as well as in Sydney

Lake Disappointment, WA
North, Middle and South Molle Islands, QLD(Reminds me of GoldMember--Moley, moley, moley, moley)

Fabian
July 11th, 2004, 05:23 AM
And in Sydney, I'm aware of a place called "The Bluff" which is in the Dee Why/Curl Curl Area.

schmidt
July 11th, 2004, 05:29 AM
WOLLONGONG!

Orfeo
July 11th, 2004, 05:54 AM
Oil City (Pennsylvania)
Trophy Club
The Colony
Medical Lake
Big Chimmney
Hico
Junior
Mt. Gay
Paw Paw
Pratt
Keezletown
Petitcodiac (Canada)

Fabian
July 11th, 2004, 06:15 AM
There is a town called Balaclava ( I don't think the spelling is right). I passed it on the way to school retreats back in yr 11 & 12. It's located on the Old Hume Highway just 5 mins from Mittagong in the Southern Highlands.

Dale
July 11th, 2004, 07:42 AM
Toad Suck Ferry, Arkansas

Two Egg, Florida

Slapout, Alabama

Randwicked
July 11th, 2004, 12:37 PM
And of course, the all time classic,


Dildo, Newfoundland

and!

South Dildo, Newfoundland

(There's also a town called Baie du Ha! Ha! in Quebec, but somehow that just isn't as funny)

Oriolus
July 11th, 2004, 01:12 PM
Curtosy of Bill Bryson, in his book, "Down Under"

Burrumbuttock, NSW
Suggan Buggan, Vic
Tittybong, Vic
Poowong, Vic

Dilaz89
July 11th, 2004, 03:56 PM
theres a regans ford in wa

Macca-GC
July 15th, 2004, 03:18 AM
Toad Suck Ferry, Arkansas

When I first started reading that, I thought you were paying me out.

JayT
July 16th, 2004, 10:32 AM
Gold Coast was certainly cleverly named to attract the Japanese and the Asians... It worked and it's pretty funny in that sense.
The suburb of "Sunnybank" in Brisbane also attracts Asians, wonder why? Could it be something to do with the sun or something to do with the word bank?.

jt

Macca-GC
July 16th, 2004, 02:19 PM
But the Sunshine Coast doesn't seem to.

daytonsuburbanite
August 1st, 2006, 06:02 PM
Town near me called Blue Ball

ryan79
August 1st, 2006, 07:47 PM
Perth suburbs

Innaloo
Upper Swan
Waneroo (often said with a T on the end for a joke)

WA

Gin Gin.

All I can think of for now. I went to a pub in London the other day call The Greencoat Boy. They have wierd names for their pubs.

USAPatriot
August 1st, 2006, 08:04 PM
Those are some pretty funny names. :)

aussiescraperman
August 1st, 2006, 09:26 PM
i saw a town on a map in NSW called Come By Chance.......

Suburb in Krasnodar, Russia pronouced: Bugarofskaya.

samsonyuen
August 1st, 2006, 10:35 PM
I like the aboriginal names like Wooloomooloo or Wollongong.

The Olderfleet
August 2nd, 2006, 12:44 AM
There is A1 Mine Settlement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1_Mine_Settlement,_Victoria) in Victoria. It is the first locality in the Australian Post Codes Book.

crawf
August 2nd, 2006, 02:52 AM
Poo-raka (suburb of Adelaide)

Loveday (SA)
Cockburn (SA)
Heywood (VIC)
Hay (NSW)
Wagga Wagga (NSW)

dsfenasni
August 2nd, 2006, 09:17 AM
places in England:
Wetwang, Love Clough, Appleby Parva, Luddenden Foot, The Lizard and Great Snoring.

Red Nut
August 2nd, 2006, 09:30 AM
Moonie - In western Qld. Stopped through there for a chicko roll once lol...

dallas
August 2nd, 2006, 10:11 AM
In England there is also the 'The Vale of Beaver'!

Never fails to get a laugh.

Others:
WA - Grass Patch,
California - Weed
New Mexico - Truth or Consequences

and in Massachusetts there's a town called Dennis, which doesn't sound like much until you're driving along and you see a sign that says "You're now entering Dennis".
Had tears in my eyes from that one!

vishalt
August 2nd, 2006, 10:20 AM
no-ones mentioned wooloomooloo yet :p?

dsfenasni
August 2nd, 2006, 11:15 AM
I like the aboriginal names like Wooloomooloo or Wollongong.

except for this guy

ryan79
August 2nd, 2006, 12:17 PM
places in England:
Wetwang


:rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:


Oohhh wetwang, thats hilarious.

Maroon Grown
August 2nd, 2006, 12:33 PM
Brisbane - New Chum, Yeebropilly, Indooroopilly, Yerongpilly, Dakabin, Wooloongabba, Doolandella

These in the Gold Coast Hinterland alone- Wongawallon, Guanaba, Tabragalba, Biddaddaba, Wonglepong, Benobble, Nindooinbah, Clagiraba, Natural Bridge, Illinbah, Numinbah Valley

Sunshine Coast Hinterland - Federal, Tuchekoi, Tinbeerwah, Brooloo, Bridges, Hunchy, BALD KNOB!!!!!!!!!!, Ilkley, Mons, Booroobin, Obi Obi

vishalt
August 2nd, 2006, 01:22 PM
whoops, mustve slipped by!

guess Wombat was a funny name for a country town, and unironically the town was actually really slow, the primary school only had 25 kids in total lol

samurai beach is funny!

Drunkill
August 2nd, 2006, 02:15 PM
wycheproof, home to the 'worlds smallest mountain' in northern victoria.

Favco750
August 2nd, 2006, 02:49 PM
Wyche, great place for a mount....

My mail used to get addressed to ^$%^& Station, Girilambone, NSW, 2831......

I thought this was hilarious seeing though it was a sheep station. I love grilling lamb...

Plus there is two Alligator Creek's in Qld, 4740 & 4816..

Two West End's in Qld, 4101 & 4810..

Two Summer Hill's in NSW, 2130 & 2287..

Two Swan Bay's in NSW, 2324 & 2471..

Two Tennyson's in NSW, 2111 & 2754..

Two The Gap's in Qld, 4061 & 4825..

Two Stony Creeks in Vic, 3371 & 3957..

Two St Clairs in NSW, Two Silverwater's in NSW, Two Newtown's in Qld, Two Mount Pleasant's in Qld, Two Mount Pleasant's in NSW, Two Mayfield's in NSW, Two Lilli Pilli's in NSW, Two Kingswood's in NSW, Two Hillside's in Vic, Two Hillsborough's in NSW, Two Happy Valley's in Qld (well three really ha ha), Two Green Point's in NSW, Two Greenmount's in QLD, Two Greenhills in NSW, Three Enmore's in NSW, Two Elderslie's in NSW, Two Dural's in NSW, Two Dalwood's in NSW, Two Cedar Creek's in Qld, Two Boat Harbour's in NSW, Two Beauty Point's in NSW, Two Balmoral's in NSW.

From Sep '01 Postcode book.

Anton
August 2nd, 2006, 04:01 PM
I've been to Fak Fak in Papua (yes, it is pronounced that way).

As for these...
:rofl:
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Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)

Assawoman (VA, USA) *

Badgers Mount (Kent, UK) *

Bastard (Norway)

Batman (S.E. Turkey) *

Bald Knob (Arkansas, US) *

Beaver (Oklahoma, USA)

Beaver Crossing (Nebraska) *

Beaver Head (Idaho, USA)

Bell End near Lickey End (Wales, UK) *

Benewah (Idaho, US) *

Binges (Cote-D'Or, Bourgogne, France) *

Bird-in-Hand (Pennsylvania, USA) *

Big Bogue Homo Creek. (Mississippi, US) *

Big Bone Lick (State Park, Ohio, US) *

Big Knob (Kentucky, USA) *

Big Ugly (West Virginia) *

Bird-In-The-Hand, near Blue Ball & Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA) *

Bitter End (Tennessee, US) *

Black Charlie's Opening (Australia) *

Bloody Dick (Montana, USA) *

Blue Ball, near Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA) *

Brest (France) *

Bobbin Head (Australia) *

Booze Moor (Nth Moor, UK) *

Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)

Buck Snort (TN. USA) *

Bullock (GA, USA) *

Bumpass, (VA. USA)*

Butte (Idaho, US) *

Cape Cockburn (NT, Australia, near Croker Island)*

Chorlton Cum Hardy ( Lancs, UK) *

Chinaman's Knob (Australia)

Climax (Colorado, USA)

Climax (NC, USA) *

Climax (Pennsylvania, USA) *

Climax (Saskatchewan) *

Climax Springs (Missouri, USA)

Cockermouth (West Lake District, Cumbria. UK)

Cockermouth (Cornwall, UK)

Cockland (Ohio, USA) *

Cocksgag (Ohio, USA) *

Cocktown (Wexford, Ireland) *

Cockup (Lake District, Cumbria. UK)

Come by Chance (Newfoundland) *

Conception Junction (Missouri, USA) *

Conception Bay (Newfoundland) *

Condom (Sth. West France) *

Cooter (Missouri, USA) *

Coxsackie (New York, US) *

Crappo (Maryland, USA) *

Crapstone (Devon, UK) *

Crotch Lake (Ontario, Canada) *

Cumming (GA. USA) *

Cunt (Spain)

Cunter (Switzerland)

Dikshit (India)

Ding Dong (Texas, USA) *

Dirty Devil River (southern Utah, feeds into the Colorado River, US)*

Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border)

Dongo (Congo - Democratic Republic)

Dorking (Surrey, UK) *

Due West (South Carolina, USA) *

Dunnydoo (NSW, Australia)

Dyckesville (Wisconsin, USA) *

Effin (Limerick, Ireland)

Elephant Butte (New Mexico, USA) *

Erect (NC, USA) *

Fleatown (OH, USA) *

Fockbury in the Parish of Catshill (Worcestershire, UK) *

Frog Suck (Wyoming) *

Fucking, (Austria) *

Fuku (Shensi, China)

Fukue (Honshu, Japan)

Fukui (Honshu, Japan)

Fukum (Yemen)

Fukumama (Fukuoka Japan) *


Gaysport (Ohio, USA) *

Glasscock (Texas, USA) *

Goose Pimple Junction (VA, USA) *

Goosey (Oxfords, UK) *

Great Cockup & Little Cockup (2 hills in The Lake District, UK )

Great Snoring (Norfolk, UK) *

Gurney Slade (Avon, UK) *

Hackballscross (Dundalk, Ireland) *

Ham, near Sandwich (Kent, UK) *

Hardhorn (Lancs, UK) *

Hardscrabble (Delaware, USA) *

Head Of Grassy (Kentucky) *

Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump (Alberta, Canada) *

Hell (Texas)*

Herpes (village in France) *

Hicksville (New York, USA) *

Hicksville (Ohio, USA) *

High Point, Climax, With Intercourse (3 neighbouring US towns, PA) *

Homerville (Georga, US) *

Hookersville (West Virginia) *

Hope Point (Greenland)

Horneyman (Kent, UK) *

Hornytown (North Carolina, USA) *

Humptulips, (Washington, USA) *


Lord Hereford's Knob, nr. Hay-on-Wye, UK

Innaloo (Western Australia) *

Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)

Iron Knob (Qld., Australia)

Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)

Jim Thorpe (formerly Monkchunk, Pennsylvania, USA) *

Knob Lick (Kentucky, USA) *

Knob Lick (Missouri, USA) *

Kooylanobbing (cool-ya-nobbing, Western Australia) *

Knob Noster (Missouri, USA) *

Lake Minnewanka (Canada) *

Lake Poopo (Peru / Bolivia) *

Lake Titicaca (Peru / Bolivia) * (which flows into Lake Poopo)

Lickey End (Wales, UK) *

Little Dix Village (West Indies)

Lizard Lick, North Carolina *

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Wales, uk) *

Long BentonLong (Newcastle UK) *

Long Dong (Guangxi, China) *

Looe (Cornwall, US) *

Lord Berkeley's Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)

Lord Hereford's Knob (near Hay-on-Wye, UK) *

Lost (uk) *

Lower Piddle on the Marsh (Gloucestershire, UK) *

Lovejoy (GA. USA) *

Loyalsockville (PA, USA) *

Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada)
Dildo is a small seaside town in Newfoundland, Canada

Maidenhead (uk) *

Meeteesee (Wyoming, US) *

Meeteetse (Wyoming, US) *

Mianus, (Ct. USA.) *

Middle Intercourse Island (Australia)

Monkey's Eyebrow (Kentucky) *

Moosejaw (Saskatchewan, Canada) *

Morehead City (NC, USA) *

Mount Mee (Qld., Australia)

Mount Ringwood (NT, Australia, SE of Darwin)*

Mount Titlis (Switzerland) *

Muff (Northern Ireland)

Nob End (South Lancashire, UK) *

Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)

Northeast (Pennsylvania, USA) *

North Piddle (Hereford & Worcester, UK) *

Noxapater, Mississippi, US *

Onacock (Virginia, USA) *

Once Brewed & Twice Brewed, both near Corbridge, UK *

Panic (Pennsylvania, US) *

Pecker's Point (Newfoundland, Canada)

Pee Pee in Pike County (Ohio) *

Penny (B.C., Canada) *

Petting (Germany) *

Phuket (Thailand) *

Piddle - North (Hereford & Worcester, UK) *

Piddle - Wyre (Hereford & Worcester, UK) *

Piddle River (Dorset, UK) *

Piles (Costa Blanca, Spain ) *

Pis Pis River (Nicaragua) *

Poor Town (North Carolina, USA) *

Pound and Beaver (5 miles apart in NE Wisconsin, USA) *

Poverty, Kentucky, USA

Pratts Bottom in Orpington, Kent, UK *

Prickwillow (England) *

Pu Ping Palace (Doi Suthep, Thailand) *

Pu-Ping River (Chang Mai, Thailand) *

Pussy Creak (Ireland) *

Pratts Bottom is a Kentish Village in the UK
Pratts Bottom is a Kentish Village in the UK

Rattlesnake Bend, Florida, US *

Satans Kingdom (Vermont, US) *

Seaman (Ohio, USA) *

Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)

Seymen (Turkey)

Shafter (California, USA)

Shag Harbour (Nova Scotia) *

Shag Island (Indian Ocean)

Shitagoo Lake (Quebec, Canada) *

Shitlingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)

Six Mile Bottom (Cambridge, UK)

Slackbottom (Yorkshire, UK)

Sleepy Eye (Minnesota, US) *

Smelley (Alabama, US) *

Soddy-Daisy (Tennessee, US) *

Staines (uk) *

Stinking Bay (Arkansas, US) *

Sugar Tit (Kentucky, USA) *

Sugar Tit (South Carolina, USA) *

Sweet Lips (TN, USA) *


Twatt is in village in Orkney, Scotland, UK

Takeshita Street (Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan) *

The Blue Ball (Tullamore, Ireland) *

The Wee House, Piddletrentide, Dorset/Hants, England *

Three Cocks (Wales, UK) *

Titless (Switzerland) *

Titley (Herefordshire, UK) *

Titting (Germany) *

Tittybong (Australia)

Titty Ho (England)

Titz (Germany) *

Tokers Green (Berkshire, UK) *

Tong Fuk (Japan)

Tosu (pronounced Toss)(Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan) *

Tosa (Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan) *

Turdo (Romania)

Triangle (New York, USA) *

Turkey City (Pennsylvania) *

Turnip Hole (Pennsylvania) *

Twatt (Orkney, UK)
Ugly (uk) *

Upper Dicker & Lower Dicker (East Sussex, U.K.) *

Vulcan (Alberta Canada) *

WANKER'S CORNER
Wanker's Corner a village in Oregon, USA

Walley (Alabama, US) *

Wank (Germany)

Wankendorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)

Wankener (India)

Wanker's Corner (Oregon, USA) *

Wankie (Zimbabwe)

Wanks River (Nicaragua)

Wankum (Germany)

Watanobbi (NSW, Australia) *

Weed (California, USA) *

Weed Patch (California, USA) *

Welch (Oklahoma, USA) *

Wet Beaver Creek (Coconino National Park, Arizona, USA)

Wetwang (East Yorkshire, UK) *

What Cheer (Iowa, US. people cheer to leave the state, says the sender!!) *

Wideopen (Newcastle UK) *

Willey (Herefordshire, UK) *

Withers (Georgia, USA ) *

Wookey Hole Caves (Cheddar, Somerset, UK) *

Worms (Nebraska, USA) *

Wyalkatchem (while-catch-em, Western Austrlia) *

Wyre Piddle (Worcestershire, UK) *

Yorkey's Knob (Queensland, Australia) *

Daffy
August 3rd, 2006, 06:02 AM
Just a few from Victoria:

Daffy
August 3rd, 2006, 06:09 AM
Just a few from Victoria:

Balrootan North
Beetoomba
Bland
Bogolong
Boonoonar
Break O'Day
Bringalbert
Bringyadogalong
Bumbang
Burrumbuttock
Diapur
Galore
Howlong
Iraak
Kongwak
Little Hard Hills
Minyip
Mumblin
Mystic Park
Nar Nar Goon
Naringaringalook
Nug Nug
Ozenkadnook
Rifle Butts Corner
Speed
Roaring Camp
Smoko
Snobs Creek
Ten Foot Hill
Titty Bong
Tooleybuc
Upotipotpon
Watchem
Weatherboard
Wee Wee rup
Woohlpooer
Wymah

Cariad
August 3rd, 2006, 06:38 AM
There is also the Village of Pity Me, in County Durham, England
And an odd one, Bethlehem, is a village in Wales, very popular during the Christmas period, people go there to post their Christmas cards, so it gets stamped with Bethlehem.
I have also stopped for petrol in Wankum in Germany.

Avatar
August 3rd, 2006, 06:58 AM
^^

Anton what were you on when you made that list???????????????

I still think one of the most stupid names is 'Garden Suburb' in Newcastle.

Cockburn, Dunnedoo and Watanobbi are also up there with crazy names.

crawf
August 3rd, 2006, 08:03 AM
heres more...

Yarrawonga (VIC)
Iron Knob (SA)
Mandurah (WA)

Anton
August 5th, 2006, 07:40 AM
^^

Anton what were you on when you made that list???????????????



My fat arse???

Seriously though, all though i didn't check each one, a few spot checks for verification were all positive.

Avatar
August 5th, 2006, 08:57 AM
^^ you went to some trouble.

The Olderfleet
August 5th, 2006, 09:19 AM
Just a few from Victoria:

Titty Bong

And where is this place? Doesn't appear in the post code book!

Anton
August 5th, 2006, 09:29 AM
^^ you went to some trouble.

Yeah heaps of trouble: www.google.com => type "funny town names". Then, select, copy, paste ;)

Daffy
August 7th, 2006, 03:17 AM
And where is this place? Doesn't appear in the post code book!

Tittybong is west of Kerang near Quambatook. Post code 3542.

Yardmaster
August 13th, 2006, 04:44 PM
Does anyone ever say they're going to "Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump" ? ^^ I wonder.

This thread seems to have got out of town names, or at least inhabited towns, so ...

When I bought some land a few decades back, I found myself with two named creeks and many unnamed creeks, spurs, waterfalls and other topographical features. They needed names. They got them. At the risk of either derailing this thread, or told to Phuket, here's a few of them:


Gutbuster Spur (named by a friend)

Blue Moon Creek (it seldom flowed)
Tricklebrook (it didn't either)
Noonshadow Creek (deep in a gully)
Faraway Creek (a long way away)
Pot of Gold Creek (where the rainbows ended)



Peaking Hill (ask my neighbour about that one)
Pass of All Winds
Goat Island (where the goats were kept)
Gander Flat (where the geese landed, and set up home)
Peace Sign Spur (where the sign was made)
Comet Flat (from which Hayley's was sited, 1986)



Tumbledown Falls
Whitewater Falls
Well-I-Never Fall (who'd have expected it?)
Whatever-Next Falls (that was a good day!)



Naked Rock (it was very exposed at the time, but hasn't been seen for decades)
Lorelei Rock (yes, I had a partner with a name like that)



Villa Culla Cottage: a cubby-house, named by my daughter.



King Tree: (enormous, but hollow & rotten, now felled and consumed in the fire)
Queen Tree: (enormous, hollow, but still standing)
Jack Tree: Not hollow yet.



Ghoul Tree: Enormous and very hollow.
Methusalah Tree: Enormous, very hollow, and close to the house: suggested by a friend.

Randwicked
August 14th, 2006, 04:17 AM
Yardmaster, can you actually submit those names to the Geographical Names Board? If so there's a ditch or two in my yard I'd like to name.

Jimmy James
August 19th, 2006, 02:56 PM
@Anton - that's the best laugh I've had all day!

I don't know to many rude place names but some of the weirder ones I know of

Turvey Park - Wagga
Gumly Gumly - Wagga
Table Top - Albury
Geebung - Brisbane
Glen Dhu - Launceston
Camira - Ipswich (only because I knew it as a car!)
Gaylong - Sth NSW
Pymble - Sydney (has always struck me as a cross between pinball and thimble)

Skyline Art
February 28th, 2012, 07:39 AM
Just browsing on nearmap and came across a place in NSW just south of Sydney called

Cockwhy (http://www.nearmap.com/?q=strange%20locality%20name@-35.538093,150.306358&ll=-35.506239,150.315113&z=13&t=h&nmd=20120101)

Was googling the thread so i could post in the appropriate thread but found this went into the News thread???????????????? :bash:

so by the way why is this thread in the NEWS thread???? shouldn't it be in the skybar,.

Choko
February 29th, 2012, 02:51 AM
^^ It's a locality (no discernable settlement) between Ulladulla and Batemans Bay on NSW's South Coast. The Princes Hwy crosses Cockwhy Creek but the signage leading to the crossing goes walkabout every now and again... Jews Creek on the Castlereagh Hwy between Lithgow and Mudgee suffers the same fate!

NZer
February 29th, 2012, 11:29 AM
Rerewhakaaitu (re-re-fuck-a-I-tu)

tuanhung
March 1st, 2012, 04:29 AM
why do we need to name new suburbs/estates/towns after aboriginal people?

Mornnb
March 1st, 2012, 04:46 AM
I don't know, same reason we need to name them after English people and English towns.

asdfg
March 3rd, 2012, 02:33 AM
So if you don't name your places after Aboriginal or English names.... what will you name them after?

RDSA
March 3rd, 2012, 02:50 AM
Dead politicians of course.

hornetfig
March 3rd, 2012, 07:49 AM
Sometimes living ones.

"Sporting Heros" seem to be valid sources of road, park and other civic names. Why not whole estates or suburbs?

SydneyCity
March 4th, 2012, 01:22 AM
Pen Island, Louisiana, USA:

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?ll=30.54158,-89.841459&spn=0.025614,0.052314&t=h&z=15

Not a town, but here's Wanker Road in Monroe, Pennsylvania:

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Wanker+Road,+Monroe,+PA,+United+States&hl=en&sll=51.313678,-0.732895&sspn=0.009295,0.026157&oq=Wanker&hnear=Wanker+Rd,+Monroe,+Bedford,+Pennsylvania+15535,+United+States&t=h&z=15

Rua De Penis, Vigo, Spain:

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=R%C3%BAa+de+Penis,+Vigo,+Espa%C3%B1a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sll=45.305629,7.748427&sspn=0.010459,0.026157&oq=Penis+a&hnear=Calle+de+Penis,+Vigo,+Pontevedra,+Galicia,+Spain&t=h&z=16

BSD
March 4th, 2012, 09:23 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse,_Pennsylvania

Dimethyltryptamine
March 4th, 2012, 09:41 AM
^^A city BSD will never visit :colgate:

SydneyCity
March 5th, 2012, 12:01 PM
I remember one of my aunts went to Intercourse a few years ago and sent me a postcard which said "Greetings, we're in the middle of Intercourse" :lol: