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Title: Unusual town names
Post by: Go Richo 12 on October 21, 2014, 10:05:40 AM: Quote from: Mr Magic on October 21, 2014, 09:06:37 AM
Howlong is one of the greatest town names ever.
Burrumbuttock is another favorite around these parts.
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: Dice on October 21, 2014, 10:09:41 AM: Humpty Doo gets my vote
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: dwaino on October 21, 2014, 10:11:54 AM: My old man is from Tumbarumba.
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: Loui Tufga on October 21, 2014, 10:36:32 AM: Quote from: dwaino on October 21, 2014, 10:11:54 AM
My old man is from Tumbarumba.

Wasn't that a band? "I get knocked down and get up again"
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: Go Richo 12 on October 21, 2014, 11:15:19 AM: Quote from: dwaino on October 21, 2014, 10:11:54 AM
My old man is from Tumbarumba.
Nice town, been there many times.
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: dwaino on October 21, 2014, 12:38:44 PM: Quote from: Go Richo 12 on October 21, 2014, 11:15:19 AM
Quote from: dwaino on October 21, 2014, 10:11:54 AM
My old man is from Tumbarumba.
Nice town, been there many times.

There is a creek named after our family around there. We were the first or one of the first families to settle there :shh

Edit: just found a lane named after us too there ;D
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: YellowandBlackBlood on October 21, 2014, 12:47:16 PM: Quote from: Mr Magic on October 21, 2014, 09:06:37 AM
Howlong is one of the greatest town names ever.
I love the town Smoko!
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: Dice on October 21, 2014, 12:57:48 PM: Bong Bong ! Now that joint is off it's head.... and as for Cockburn ? Well I aint touching that one.
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: taztiger4 on October 21, 2014, 01:45:34 PM: Innaloo is a Perth suburb
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: Diocletian on October 21, 2014, 01:59:51 PM: (http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2014/04/07/1226876/603062-de5ba65c-bded-11e3-bc42-07fa22d935d5.jpg)

A town named in honour of Shaun Grigg's running patterns:

(http://thewondrous.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Useless-Loop-USL-Australia.jpg)
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: taztiger4 on October 21, 2014, 02:02:28 PM: Quote from: Diocletian on October 21, 2014, 01:59:51 PM
(http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2014/04/07/1226876/603062-de5ba65c-bded-11e3-bc42-07fa22d935d5.jpg)

A town named in honour of Shaun Grigg's running patterns:

(http://thewondrous.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Useless-Loop-USL-Australia.jpg)

ahh the Loop, know it well ,great place to fish & mine salt !!
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: Smokey on October 21, 2014, 02:22:29 PM: Quote from: Dice on October 21, 2014, 10:09:41 AM
Humpty Doo gets my vote

Hey, leave my place out of this!! :boxer

;D
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: Go Richo 12 on October 21, 2014, 02:34:30 PM: Anyone been to Austria?
stuffing's most famous feature is four traffic signs with its name on them, beside which tourists stop to have their photograph taken, owing to the identical spelling to the present participle and gerund of the English-language profanity stuff. One version of the sign features the village name with an additional sign beneath it, with the words "Bitte – nicht so schnell!" ("Please – not so fast!"). The lower sign—which features an illustration of two children—is meant to advise drivers to slow down, but tourists interpret it, in conjunction with the "stuffing" sign, as a double entendre.[11]

British and American soldiers based in nearby Salzburg noticed the name after World War II, and began to travel to the village to have their photos taken beside the signs while striking various poses. The local residents, the Fuckingers, were considerably bemused as they had not previously been aware of the meaning of their village's name when read as English.[8] Since then, the number of visitors to stuffing has increased, with the occasional visit by a tour bus.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/stuffing,_Austria
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: Diocletian on October 21, 2014, 03:11:09 PM: Quote from: Go Richo 12 on October 21, 2014, 02:34:30 PM
Anyone been to Austria?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/stuffing,_Austria

..or Germany?

(http://blog.easytobook.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/City-of-Wank-Germany.jpg)

..and back to Austria:

(http://cdn.wanderlust.co.uk/contentimages/wanderlust/li-final-windpassing-austria.jpg?maxwidth=460)
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: Dice on October 21, 2014, 03:25:16 PM: So much fun to be had here !

Let's head down this dirt track >>

(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01708/butt_1708583c.jpg)
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: Dice on October 21, 2014, 03:28:10 PM: Then there's the strictly lesbian town of >>

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/DildoNewfoundland.jpg/220px-DildoNewfoundland.jpg)
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: Judge Roughneck on October 21, 2014, 03:34:47 PM: ; it was normal practice for a medieval street name to reflect the street's function or the economic activity taking place within it. Gropeidiot, the earliest known use of which is in about 1230, appears to have been derived as a compound of the words grope and idiot. Streets with that name were often in the busiest parts of medieval towns and cities, and at least one appears to have been an important thoroughfare.

http://www.heelsandwheelsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/110_110.JPG
Austria

England

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropeidiot_Lane

(http://googlesightseeing.com/wp-content/images/2009/2/ajdt146-atrb.jpg)

(http://www.20min.ch/diashow/35387/slutshole-ada56f12cb6707d42bb7bd2c48929e2c.jpg)
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: Dice on October 21, 2014, 03:44:04 PM: Nice work Judge !

Not a lot to do in this town apparently ?

(http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/article-1335338267024-12c1c448000005dc-433697_466x310.jpg)
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: Dice on October 21, 2014, 03:54:39 PM: And one more before I sign off for the day. This town might have it's benefits ??

(http://cdn2.listsoplenty.com/listsoplenty-cdn/uploads/2010/05/Knob-Lick-300x225.jpg)
Title: Re: Unusual town names
Post by: YellowandBlackBlood on October 22, 2014, 01:41:50 PM: Lots of :lol on this page.
Well done guys! Classic stuff! :clapping