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Hello Jimbo this is a great site it's fun to.I think most of us have seen on one census or another odd place names of birth. It was only a couple of weeks a got one myself. The 1871 census telling me one of the children was born in Cow in cheshire ???where the heck was cow? must be a village in the sticks. No it turned out to be crewe ::) bet you get a lot of post on this one ;D
Celia
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Topic: FOR SALE: "Shakespeare My Butt!" Strange funny place names
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We all know about the bizarre place names in the UK. Wetwang, Pity Me, No Place, Blubberhouses....I could go on...so I will... :-\ Booze, Twatt, Pratt's Bottom etc
Well one guy has made a journey around them and recorded it in his hilarious book Shakespeare My Butt!. Well, actually that guy is me, and I'm the author
There is lots of other stuff in there, including how sayings developed, how the place names developed, and too much more to mention.
You can actually see some extracts on www.marsupialelvis.com (http://www.marsupialelvis.com)
Anyway, thought I'd share that gem with you... :-\
Anyway...enjoy! ...and I bet you lot come up with some stuff not in the book!!
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I used to live in GIGGLESWICK
Thats a laugh for a start.
Sylviaann
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I currently live in SUNSHINE. Not strange or funny to me but when travelling abroad provokes some interesting responses - " like oh yes, the weather in Australia must be good but where do you live?' Uh, Sunshine', 'So what, it never rains?' "Well, yes it does,' 'So where are you from?' you get the gist - just goes in circles. ;)
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I lived for a while in RAMSBOTTOM.
I passed a place called HEAVEN once,[in the US] couldn't wait to see the sign 'You are leaving HEAVEN'.
A friend woke up on a long train journey in Scandanavia as the train juddered to a halt in a station. He rubbed the icy window, the sign said HELL
Tom G
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There's a Land of Nod oop north.
Think it's Yorkshire but i always nod off!!
I know - but it's dodgy joke time down here.
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Little Piddling, Lower and Upper Slaughter, and Mavis Enderby.
;D ;D ;D
I really think you could make up a poem purely consisting of funny place names all put together in a suitable order!
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The US has a lot of strangely named places...We have Nutsville, Looneyville, Dull, Gas, Boring, Rough and Ready, and Fearnot ( I found these on a website). Then of course there's Heaven and Hell, Horseheads, Tyre, and the list goes on.
There's even a place called Clifton Springs where the rich and famous used to bathe in sulfur springs. Smells like rotten eggs all year long. LOL!!!!!
Minime
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yes heres one,
NEW LANE
NEW ROAD
NEW STREET
NEW BUILDINGS
??? ??? ???
All given these names but when do they become,
OLD LANE
OLD ROAD
OLD STREET ECT !!!!!!!
My minds going a mile a min.... ;D
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And I forgot the one town everyone laughs about...Intercourse, PA. I believe it's a town that Goerge Washington slept in. He apparently slept in most towns in PA. ;D And if ya want strange names for roads...we have a lot of those too!!!! LOL!!!!
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I love Little Snoring, and would like to send my husband there at nights....
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We went to a cemetery in Shirley, Southampton..... i wonder who Shirley was?
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my fav place , Dorset uk , you work it out !!! ;D ;D ;D
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Errrm........?
Nope,you've got me stumped ???
Any clues?
Confused,Mick ;)
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;) ok i make it easy look at red lines and who i'm researching ???
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Ker Ching..!! The penny's dropped ;D ::)
Now I get it,nice one.
I was thinking "is it one of those 3d pictures? :) The ones that you stare at for ages and then a picture emerges like magic :D
I was staring at it thinking 'any minute now,I bet it's Elvis' but nothing happened ;D
Mick ;)
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How long you been looking :o ;D ???
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;D Love this one ;D
Before buying the house we're in now, put in an offer on a Dyke Cottage, Dyke Lane. Lovely house but loved the address. There is a town in Germany called W##K. :P
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Long enough thankyou Graceland ;D
I thought,OK then,as the 3D picture idea didn't work "maybe the hedges surrounding the fields somehow formed an image of 'the King'", and I really did look ::)
Another thought was that maybe 'the King' was actually somewhere in the picture,hiding in a hedge having been caught out by a passing helicopter ;D that Barry Bear was probably flying ;D ;D
And yes Barry,there is a place called W**k in Germany.... :-\ ;D.Bob in Berlin might know about it ;) I spent some time stationed there (not actually in W**k,I couldn't have done it..Lived there I mean ;)) but we were aware of it as you tend to be when you live in rather close proximity to a town with a name like that ;D
Cheers,Mick ;)
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;D Love this one ;D
Before buying the house we're in now, put in an offer on a d**e Cottage, d**e Lane. Lovely house but loved the address. There is a town in Germany called W##K. :P
Alright! i give in, It's a bit early and i,m sat here pulling my hair out ( not good when i've got a interview this morning).
d**e ?
There was/is a village in Bedfordshire called Ipploitis or somthing like that. I've looked on Multimap and cant find it. anyone?
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Probably more than you ever wanted to know, but here it is !
Name State
Wank Bayern RB Oberbayern - Berchtesgadener Land
Wank Bayern RB Niederbayern - Rottal-Inn
Wank Bayern RB Schwaben - Ostallgäu
Wankelburg Rheinland-Pfalz RB Koblenz - Mayen-Koblenz
Wankendorf Schleswig-Holstein - Plön
Wankhaus Bayern RB Oberbayern - Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Wankheim Baden-Württemberg RB Tübingen - Tübingen
Wankum, Kevelaer Nordrhein-Westfalen
Wankum, Wachtendonk Nordrhein-Westfalen
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Alright! i give in, It's a bit early and i,m sat here pulling my hair out ( not good when i've got a interview this morning).
d**e ?
I'm with you on this one Fitty ???
We might need a bit of a clue Barry,another letter should do it,I'm baffled ??? ;D
Mick ;)
Hang on!! could it be..........d.....erm...............nope,it's gone :(
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??? Hi Guys,
The name was dyke. I did write it in full as I didnt think the word that describes a thing to hold water back was that naughty really but someone must have put in the *s. And as we now have the name of the town in Germany spelt out for us I can't see the problem?
Fitty, the village in Beds is called Ippolitts, Ippolyts or St Ippolitts, It varies and I have loads of ancestors from there ;D
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Barry, Try spelling it slowley L I K E T H I S .
i never was very good at anagrams lol
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Aha!
I've got it ;D took me a while though,I'm amazed that it was picked up on ???
Mick ;)
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Whisper it! Mick lol
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D a m ?
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Come on Fitty,it's easy,
I'll give you a clue "D i c k"
Surely you'll get it now ???
If you don't get it,another clue will follow,
Mick ;)
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Talking of dick has anyone been to Piddle it's just up the road from Piddle in the Hole
Bill
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Austria has a state called Windpassing and a village called F***king. I kid you not!
South Africa has Pofadder [Puffadder] and in the Northern Cape the town of Hotazel.
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:o
Amazing, but here we go.
D is for Delta
Y is for Yankee
K is for Kilo
E is for Echo
Hopefully that spells it out :D
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:-\ Imagine Iwas trying to find the ancestors of Dick Van Dyke?
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Ha Ha Ha!
It made me laugh when I saw it had changed 'that word' for 'thingy'
Priceless!
I wonder if there are some more gems like that.
Mick ;)
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lol...i tried to put a name on unusual names thread and it did the same thing...I just wanted to mention poor little "Christmas C-O-C-K" and asked how could his parents do it to him! but alas it said poor little christmas thingy.....Thought hope someone doesnt want to do a lookup on the name C-o-c-k quite common in Cornwall or they will get a lookup on thingy! probably wouldnt impress....I assume the censor has been primed not to allow certain words and these sort of words r part of it even when they r quite serious people or place names....Kris ;D
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Well I know a word that it hasn't picked up on ;)
But I couldn't possibly tell you how I found out,it's quite a risque word as well...... :o
Mick ;)
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Right then, I just have to try the following and see what they come out as. Apologies if I offend anyone but this is purely for research purposes you understand...
thingy
thingy
thingy
thingy
thingy
I cant wait to hit 'POST' here goes
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;D was it any of these Mick?????
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BARRY BEAR! :o :o
Did you just really do that?
I'm gobsmacked ;D ;D
Mick ;)
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Methinks we should try this with PMs
Mick ;)
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Mick and BarryBear,
You are both still the naughty little boys from the mugshot thread are't you. ::) ;D
Don't make me moderate you............ :P
Kazza.
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:-[ sorry Miss Kazza :-[
I be good now, pwomiss
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It was ALL Barry's idea,he made me do it.........
I didn't want to do it......
Honest....
Sorry...
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Youre a big fat grasser and i'm not playing anymore so there!
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No one has mentioned Newfoundland, home of the strangest place names in the English-speaking world.
Here is just a small sample:
Come-by-Chance
Blow-me-down
Run-by-guess
Ha Ha Bay
Bleak Joke Cove
Bleak Island
Misery Point
Famine Point
Breakheart Point
Famish Gut
Savage Cove
Heart's Content
Heart's Delight
Comfort Cove
Little Paradise
Lion's Den
Horse Chops
Little Cat Arm
Fox Roost
Cow Head
Stocking Harbour
Petticoat Harbour
God Bay
Devil Cove
There are dozens more, but I think this lot prove my point.
Carmela
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What great names Carmela. I think some of the members here already live at Ha Ha Bay.
We should couple a few of the odd surnames and funny place names together .......Then again we'd better not...lol
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What a wicked thought! Gives me ideas, but perhaps you are right; better not go there.....
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Here we go, an idea of a Christmas present for you!
Topic: FOR SALE: "Shakespeare My Butt!" Strange funny place names
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,11381.0.html
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There is a Truth Or Consequences,New Mexico. It had another name but years ago the was a telly show by that name and the town folk changed its name to match the telly show for some reason. There is also a Hope, New Mexico, the only place in U.S. to have been bombed during W.W.II, and that was by the U.S. doing training!!! The entire town consists of a general store/post office and wide spread large ranches so no damage done. The people there are so proud of the bombing there is a sign out about it. On the Island of Grand Cayman there is a section called "Hell" because the ground is rocky and pitted like a moon crater. A tourist attraction there is sending a post card home from the P.O. there marked "Greeting From Hell" Leagen P.S. Where can I buy that book in U.S.?