by Alec Muffett
Ha, a whole new category called “world”, since I couldn’t find anywhere else to put this.
After a passing comment in Long Way Round, I did a little digging and found there are at least three places in the world, called (approximately) “Moron” — Mongolia, Argentina, and Minnesota.
Not that I am complaining, having been brought up not far from the village of Wyre Piddle – plus the fact that this summer I hope to satisfy several of my former friends by going to Hell.
A few years ago I got a postcard from Hell. The “Hell” that you mention. The good thing: it was from Hell’s station, which has a goods depot. And that’s “Gods depot” in Norwegian….
This is borderline work-safe, but highly amusing:
If we’re into crude place names today, Jim Finnis made this wonderful observation in the “tuesday, october 12 2004”:
<<< Puerile, yes, but this isn’t so much a place as a blue movie… >>>
…but alas the Streetmap URL he provided no longer has the map resolution necessary to back up the joke; a little fun with MultiMap reveals it, slightly above/right of center: http tinyurl.com/44fty
There are some real corkers down here in Oz, but my favourite was one we stumbled across whilst driving on the Snowy Mountains highway, way away from anywhere. It wasn’t a place, just a sign for a creek (river). Somewhere I’ve got the photo, just need to find it to scan it..
All the name sign said was:
Bollocks Creek
I don’t know if I ever want to find out why, but if you Google for it you won’t find anything (or at least not when I just did it)..
cheers! Chris
In a similar vein: http ql.gs/468
Just North of where I live, Monk’s Lode flows into New Dyke. It’s ruder when you say it out loud, of course…
There’s Upton Snodsbury, Peopleton and Crowle North Piddle, Wrye Piddle And Piddle-in-the-Hole
a ditty from my youth, in a the loo of a relative who lived on the river bank near Evesham. Piddle in the Hole is also the name of a local beer in the area I believe.
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