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From Nick Oliva - author of ONLY MOMENTS - comes this hilarious blog posting about places with funny names:

PLACES I DON’T WANT TO RETIRE

Deadhorse, Eek, Floss, Goobertown, Tuba City, Gassville, Greasy Corner, Grubbs, Bivalve, Fort Dick. Blue Ball, Yellow Water, Roachtown, Beans Corner Bingo, Hell, Slaughter

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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
- Professor Irwin Corey (American vaudeville comic and actor (1914 - )) Continue

Just back from a visit to Truro in the USA, not the UK. This is where the Pilgrims first landed, before Plymouth. Really.
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Check out Gary Gladstone's wonderful books: the original hilarious: "Passing Gas and other towns along the American HIghway", and the excellent sequel: "Reaching Climax..."

Gary traveled around America visiting towns with funny names and found great portraits in every one.
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The Billiad....

There are nearly one hundred towns in Ohio which bear the names of foreign places. Most of these communities were settled in the early 1800’s when it was fashionable to label a frontier town with an exotic foreign name.

I was born and raised in Cincinnati and moved to New York City in 1985 after living in Colorado for ten years. My sense of place was disrupted and I had just started a job which required extensive worldwide travel. In May 1985 between assignment… Continue