Don't get confused while driving in South Carolina 11

[SantaMufasa]

I just discovered that North, South Carolina is 99.6 miles southeast of Due West, South Carolina.

Do you have any other great place names?

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 

[SantaMufasa]

South Bend, Indiana is located in the Northern part of the state.

Just a coincidence...The name South Bend derives from the southern-most bend of St. Joseph's River, which flows through the city limits of South Bend, Indiana and forms one of the city's boundaries on the east side of town.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 

[k5tm]

West, Texas, isn't in West Texas.

And can anyone guess the origin of the name of my home town (village), Transfer, PA?

Tom Morrison
Hill Country Software

 

[SantaMufasa]

And can anyone guess the origin of the name of my home town (village), Transfer, PA?

Origins of town names fascinate me, so I actually know the origin of Transfer, Pennsylvania: Back in the "olden days", railroads in the U.S. had not yet settled on the gauge (width between rails) for railroad tracks. When railroads with differing gauges met, the trains had to off-load their cargo from the source train's cars and re-load the cargo onto the continuing-train's cars. Such a location was called a Transfer point. Since Erie Railroad met up with the Erie & Pittsburgh at this point and their gauges were different, the village became known as Transfer, Pennsylvania.


Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 

[kray4660]

Peculiar Missouri was named because the town founders wanted an unusual name.

 

[k5tm]

Dave! For extra points, can you answer, "On which railroad was my grandfather, Walter S Morrison, a dispatcher?" Trick question! While my grandfather lived at one of the tow main whistle posts in Transfer, he worked for the Bessemer and Lake Erie in Greenville.

I remember Transfer as a sleepy little leftover village, but during its days as a transfer point, it had two hotels and a small set of retail stores. Multiple sets of tracks from my youth (Pennsylvania RR and Erie RR) have been removed, so that there is a single Conrail line going through now.

Tom Morrison
Hill Country Software

 

[SantaMufasa]

"On which railroad was my grandfather, Walter S Morrison, a dispatcher?"

...And that is a fair question because...? <smile>

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 

[k5tm]

And that is a fair question because...?

Because you were, quite literally, the first person in decades that has been able to answer the original Transfer question. A lot of people from Transfer don't know the answer!

I was just plumbing the depth and breadth of your (rather arcane) knowledge. And, giving myself an excuse to reminisce a bit...

Tom Morrison
Hill Country Software

 

[SantaMufasa]

Upper Sandusky, Ohio is south by several miles of Sandusky, Ohio.

Yes, Upper Sandusky is about 60 miles south of Sandusky. The reason it was named Upper Sandusky was not because of any proximity to Sandusky but because it is on the banks of the upper portion (i.e., near the headwaters of) the Sandusky River.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 

[SantaMufasa]

And for you Children of the 1950s, did you know that Truth or Consequences, New Mexico really is named after the 1950s-60s game show? Then producer of the game show, Ralph Edwards, announced that they would air the show from the first town that officially renamed itself after the game show. Hot Springs, New Mexico was the first, and thus, the "winner" of the contest.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 

[philhege]

You can visit a town called North East, PA, located in the Northwest corner of the state.

Ah, North East, PA, the favorite destination of illegal fireworks purchasers. Illegal, of course, if you're coming from NY.

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With business clients like mine, you'd be better off herding cats.

 

[johnherman]

Remember a football quarterback named Montana? How many remember this little publicity gem:
Town of Joe, Montana

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/20798

In 1993, the town of Ismay changed its name to "Joe." A Kansas City radio station convinced the population (all 22 of them) to do it as a publicity gimmick when the legendary Joe Montana was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs. Back then the champion football player was a household name, and the town voted for the name change to last at least for the duration of football season.

Montana led his team to victory, and retired from football a few years later. The town eventually lapsed into calling itself Ismay again, although signs for "Joe" remained. Funds raised from the sale of "Joe, Montana" souvenirs enabled the town to build a new fire station.




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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was - Steven Wright

 

[gbaughma]

When I lived in Illinois, I would occasionally tell people that I lived in a suburb just east of Chicago.




Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg

 

[johnherman]

What the Captain doesn't realize is that I've been a stowaway on his boat, in my little suburb east of Chicago.

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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was - Steven Wright

 

[Westi]

Seems better than having to tell people that you live in Dildo Newfoundland as that can get embarrassing.

Joe W.

FHandw, ACSS (SME), ACIS (SME)


“This is the end of the world, make sure to buy your T-shirt before it is too late"
Original expression of my daughter

 

[SantaMufasa]

While living in the English Midlands for two years in the early 1970s, I found that Great Britons seem to have the best senses of humour when it comes to amusing street and place names:

Rude and Funny London Street and Place Names
◦Back Passage, London
◦Mincing Lane, London
◦Mudchute, London
◦Percy Passage, London
◦Swallow Passage, London
◦Trump Street, London
◦Cumming Street, London
◦Cockfoster, London
◦Dick Turpin Lane, London
◦Cock Hill, London
◦Titley Close, London
◦Cockbush Avenue, London

Rude and Funny English Village and Place Names in England
◦Acock’s Green, Worcestershire, UK
◦Babes Well, Durham, UK
◦Bachelors Bump, Essex, UK
◦Backside Lane, Oxfordshire
◦Balls Green, Kent, England
◦Balls Cross, WestSussex
◦Bareleg Hill, Staffordshire, UK
◦Barking, Essex
◦Beaver Close, Surrey
◦Bedlam Bottom, Hampshire, UK
◦Beef Lane, Oxfordshire
◦Beer, Devon, UK
◦Beggars Bush, Sussex passed her prime
◦Bell End near Lickey End
◦Bishops Itchington, Staffs, UK
◦Bitchfield, Lincolnshire
◦Boggy Bottom, Abbots Langley, Herts, UK
◦Booty Lane, NorthYorkshire
◦Bottoms Fold, Lancashire
◦Broadbottom, Cheshire, UK
◦Brown Willy, Cornwall,UK
◦Bushygap, Northumberland, UK
◦Catholes, Cumbria
◦Catsgore, Somerset, UK
◦Charles Bottom, Devon, UK
◦Clap Hill, village in Kent, UK
◦Clay Bottom, Bristol, UK
◦Cock Alley, Calow, UK
◦Cock Bridge, Hope, Derbyshire, UK
◦Cock Green, nr Braintree
◦Cock Lane, Tutts Clump, Berkshire, UK
◦Cock Law, Northumberland, UK
◦Cock and Bell Lane, Suffolk
◦Cockermouth, Cumbria
◦Cockernhoe, nr Luton, UK
◦Cocking, Midhurst, West Sussex, UK
◦Cockintake, Staffordshire, UK
◦Cockpit Hill, Derbyshire, UK
◦Cockplay, Northumberland, UK
◦Cocks, Cornwall
◦Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire
◦Cockshot, Northumberland, UK
◦Cockshutt Wood, Sheffield, UK
◦Cockup Lake District, Cumbria. UK
◦Coldwind, Cornwall, UK
◦Crackington Haven, Cornwall, UK
◦Crackpot, North Yorkshire, UK
◦Crapstone, Devon
◦Crotch Crescent, Oxford
◦Deans Bottom, Kent, UK
◦Devil’s Lapful, Northumberland, UK
◦Dicks Mount, Suffolk
◦Drinkstone, Suffolk, UK
◦Faggot, Northumberland, UK
◦Fanny Barks, Durham, UK
◦Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire
◦Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire
◦Feltham Close, Hampshire
◦Feltwell, Norfolk
◦Fingringhoe, Essex
◦Flesh Shank, Northumberland, UK
◦Friars Entry, Oxfordshire
◦Fruitfall Cove, Cornwall, UK
◦Fudgepack upon Humber, Humberside
◦Gay Street, Sussex. UK
◦Gays Hill, Cornwall, UK
◦Giggleswick, Staincliffe, Nth. Yorkshire, UK
◦Golden Balls, Oxfordshire, UK
◦Gravelly Bottom Road, nr Langley Heath, Kent, UK
◦Great Cockup & Little Cockup, hills in The Lake District, UK
◦Great Horwood, Bucks, UK
◦Great Tosson, Northumberland
◦Grope Lane, Shropshire
◦Hampton Gay, Oxfordshire, UK
◦Happy Bottom, Dorset
◦Helstone, Cornwall, UK
◦Hole Bottom, Yorkshire, UK
◦Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire
◦Holly Bush, Ledbury, Herefordshire, UK
◦Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire
◦Honeypot Lane, Leicestershire
◦Hooker Road, Norwich
◦Horncastle, Linconshire
◦Horneyman, Kent, UK
◦Hornyold Road, Malvern Wells, UK
◦Horwood, Devon, UK
◦Jeffries Passage, Surrey
◦Jolly’s Bottom, Cornwall, UK
◦Juggs Close, EastSussex
◦Knockerdown, Derbyshire, UK
◦Lacock, Wiltshire
◦Letch Lane, Bourton-on-the-Water, The Cotswolds, UK
◦Lickar Moor, Northumberland, UK
◦Lickers Lane, Merseyside
◦Lickey End, Worcestershire, UK
◦Lickfold, West Sussex
◦Little Horwood, Bucks, UK
◦Little Bushey Lane, Hertfordshire
◦Long Lover Lane, Halifax
◦Lower Swell, Gloucestershire
◦Menlove Avenue, Liverpool
◦Minge Lane, Worcestershire
◦Moisty Lane, Staffordshire
◦Nether Wallop, Hampshire
◦Nob End, South Lancashire, UK
◦Nork Rise, Surrey
◦North Piddle, Worcestershire
◦Ogle Close, Merseyside
◦Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire
◦Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire
◦Over Peover, Cheshire, UK
◦Pant, Shropshire
◦Penistone, Sth Yorkshire, UK
◦Piddle River, Dorset, UK
◦Pork Lane, Essex
◦Pratt’s Bottom, Kent
◦Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire
◦Pump Alley, Middlesex
◦Ram Alley, Wiltshire, UK
◦Ramsbottom, Lancs, UK
◦Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire
◦Sandy Balls, Hampshire
◦Scratchy Bottom, Dorset, UK
◦Shaggs, Dorset, UK
◦Shingaycum Wendy, Buckinghamshire
◦Shitlingthorpe, Yorkshire, UK
◦Shitterton, Dorset
◦Shittington, Bedfordshire, UK
◦Six Mile Bottom, Cambridge, UK
◦Slackbottom, Yorkshire, UK
◦Slag Lane, Merseyside
◦Slip End, Beds, UK
◦Slippery Lane, Staffordshire
◦Snatchup, Hertfordshire
◦Spanker Lane, Derbyshire.
◦Spitalin the Street, Lincolnshire
◦Splatt, Cornwall, UK
◦Staines, Surrey
◦Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire, UK
◦Swell, Somerset
◦The Blind Fiddler, Cornwall, UK
◦The Bush, Buckinghamshire
◦The Furry, Cornwall
◦The Knob, Oxfordshire
◦Thong, Kent
◦Tinkerbush Lane, Oxfordshire
◦Titcomb, near Inkpen, Berkshire, UK
◦Titlington Mount, Northumberland
◦Titty Hill, Sussex, UK
◦Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
◦Tosside, Lancashire
◦Turkey Cock Lane, Colchester, Essex, UK
◦Ugley, Essex
◦Upper Bleeding, Sussex, UK
◦Upper Chute, Hampshire, UK
◦Upper Dicker & Lower Dicker, East Sussex, UK
◦Upperthong, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
◦Wash Dyke, Norfolk, UK
◦Weedon Lois, Northampton
◦Weedon, in the Parish of Hardwick, Buckinghamshire, UK
◦Weeford, Staffordshire, UK
◦Wet Rain, Yorkshire, UK
◦Wetwang, East Yorkshire
◦WhamBottomLane, Lancashire
◦Wideopen, Newcastle, UK
◦Willey, Warwickshire
◦Winkle Street, Southampton
◦Wormegay, Norfolk, UK

Rude and Funny Place Names in Scotland
◦Ardfork, Aberdeenshire
◦Ardgay, Ross & Cromarty, UK
◦Assloss, Ayrshire, Scotland
◦Backside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
◦Backside, Banffshire, Scotland
◦Ballownie, Angus, UK
◦Blackdikes, Angus
◦Bladda, Paisley
◦Forest Dyke Road, Lanarkshire
◦Boghead, Ayrshire
◦Boysack, Angus, Scot.
◦Brokenwind, Aberdeenshire
◦Butt of Lewis, Hebrides, Scotland, UK
◦Cock of Arran, Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK
◦Cumloden Court, Dumfries and Galloway
◦Dick Court, Lanarkshire
◦East Breast, Inverclyde
◦Fannyfield, Ross and Cromarty, UK
◦Fattiehead, Banffshire, Scotland
◦Hillo’ManyStanes, Scotland
◦Inchbare, Angus, uk
◦Inchinnan Drive, Renfrewshire
◦Inchmore, Aberdeenshire
◦Merkins Avenue, West Dumbartonshire
◦Stripeside, Banffshire, UK
◦Tarty, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
◦The Bastard, a mountain in Scotland, uk
◦Twatt, Orkney

Rude and Funny Welsh Place Names
◦Bullyhole Bottom, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
◦Cat’s Ash, Monmouthshire, Wales
◦Pant-y-Felin Road, Swansea
◦Penisarwaen, village in Gwynedd, UK
◦Sodom, Flintshire, Wales, UK
◦Splott, Cardiff, Wales
◦St.Mellons, Cardiff
◦Stop-and-Call, Pembrokeshire, UK
◦Tarts Hill, Flintshire, Wales, UK
◦Three Cocks, Breconshire, Wales, UK


Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 

[hjgoldstein]

In Perth and Kinross, Scotland is the village Crook of Devon.

On one of the signs announcing the name of the village someone had once added

Twinned with Thief of Baghdad

Aspiring to mediocrity since 1957

 

[OzzieGeorge]

Anybody read the meaning of liff by douglas adams (author of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy) where he used little known place names for those things you always wanted a word for. One I remember was a Nad defined Measure defined as the distance between a driver's outstretched fingertips and the ticket machine in an automatic car-park. 1 nad = 18.4 cm.

In fact I found this, a quote from the book,

In Life*, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist.
On the other hand, the world is littered with thousands of spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places.
Our job, as wee see it, is to get these words down off the signposts and into the mouths of babes and sucklings and so on, where they can start earning their keep in everyday conversation and make a more positive contribution to society.

Douglas Adams
John Lloyd

*And, indeed, in Liff.

 

[JonC8191]

In South Wales there is a mountain called 'Lord Hereford's Knob'. This has been immortalised in a great song by the band Half Man Half Biscuit which I highly recommend a listen to (so long as you are somewhere where laughing loudly won't be an issue)

 

[SantaMufasa]

Jon, I see that the nearest lodging to Lord Hereford's Knob is Holly Bush Inn. I'm wondering if Lord Hereford and Holly were close acquaintences.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.&quot;

 

[ChrisHirst]

Ooh er' that sounds rather painful.

Chris.

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Time flies like an arrow, however, fruit flies like a banana.
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