Y’all should know by now that I am Beavis/Cartman, a mind perenially in the fourth grade. And my friends are Butthead, Stan, Kyle, Kenny, Butters, Homestar, Peter Griffin, Kid, Play, Bob, Dave, Prince Akeem, Peter Venkman, Bueller, Tron Carter, Carl Spackler and their own unique characters. So, even if I don’t find one myself, I am sent a link like this at least once a day. This one has to be shared because the giggles it causes are too much for one house to bear. (Thanks, Walli!)
NYTimes | No Snickering: That Road Sign Means Something Else
… In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Some are mostly amusing, like Ugley, Essex; East Breast, in western Scotland; North Piddle, in Worcestershire; and Spanker Lane, in Derbyshire.
… As for Penistone, a thriving South Yorkshire town, just stop that sophomoric snickering. It’s pronounced ˜PENNIS-tun,“ Fiona Moran, manager of the Old Vicarage Hotel in Penistone, said over the telephone, rather sharply. When forced to spell her address for outsiders, she uses misdirection, separating the tricky section into two blameless parts: p-e-n ” pause ” i-s-t-o-n-e.
Is that how it’s pronounced? I thought it was said … you know. Oh, come on, guys, don’t laugh! Things like food … and butt warmth (teeheeheeheeeee) are in jeopardy.
… If they ordered a pizza, the pizza company wouldn“t deliver it, because they thought it was a made-up name, Mr. Hurst said. People would stand in front of the sign, pull down their trousers and take pictures of each other“s naked buttocks.
BWAhahahaaa! New Orleans has its share of strange street names, some that elicit a double take. As do other cities like Yellowknife, Canada with Ragged Ass Road and Pinch’em Slyly Place in Charlottesville, Virginia. What strange or funny street names have you run across in New Orleans or where you live and travel to?
damn it i was going to write about peniston st.
There’s a Podunk Road in Massachusetts, we always used to misread the sign for Scotrun, PA as Scrotum, and some of the place names in New Jersey are just priceless: Ho Ho Kus, Mahwah. And Mamaroneck is always fun to mispronounce…
…but when we went to Prince Edward Island, Dan just HAD to send friends of ours some postcards from the town of Crapaud.
One of my favorite names was one I saw because someone had plucked an envelope out of the old Counting House’s mail and stuck it on their cube wall: Pull And Be Damned Road, somewhere in California.
Oh, how could I forget the location of the only Ikea on Long Island???
Hicksville, NY.
In downtown Nashville, we were happy to find the corner of Church and Gay.
I used to live on Fagot (supposedly Fah-goh) in Metry. Pizza place definitely got a kick of that and my last name which, pronounced in the appropriate Y’at way, sounds like the word that means … uh …. “randy”. Lots of fun nicknames in school, oh yeah.
Madison has a corner where Johnson and Hancock meet.
Hehehe hehe he hehe he you said hancock.
There’s also the Bong Recreation Area in Wisconsin.
Doesn’t Madison also have the corner of Hooker and Pleasure? As for the Bong Recreation Area sign, D and Killer told me that it’s been stolen more times than they can count.
Oh, and a famous li’l magnet a friend owned asked “Where in the heck is Conway, Arkansas?”
Answer: “Between Pickles Gap and Toad Suck”, as there IS a Toad Suck Bridge.
Is Bong Recreation Area near Bohner’s Lake? In Louisville, Kentucky, there is the Penile Baptist Church.