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Funny Place or Country Names!

  • 10-03-2009 12:05pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭


    Omg! A friend told me about this real life place name, at first I didnt believe her but looked it up and sure enough it is there :O

    http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp

    I mean can you imagine being asked where you went on holiday and what your answer is.....lol! They would think you didn't like it there!

    You can also use a browser to find out more about the place!

    What about umm over here. What about this place then....

    http://www.iol.ie/~effinns/

    Umm...someone can ask you ...where did you go to school and you can reply...I went to............school.....LOL!


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭fatgav


    i lived in sweden for a few months last year and one weekend i took an 18 hour round trip by train to northern norway just to say i've been to Hell...


  • Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭Bearhunter


    I always had a wee snigger whenever I passed through Bastardstown in Wexford.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 636 ✭✭✭cute_cow


    Meanus in Kerry.

    Here is a little map of meanus for you :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭foxy06


    well there is a C*nt in spain and you can go to **** in Germany.


    This is true.....google if you wish!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭RoundTower


    foxy06 wrote: »
    well there is a C*nt in spain and you can go to **** in Germany.


    This is true.....google if you wish!

    Ich bin ein Wanker!


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    ya can always go and hit Fuket in Thailand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,588 ✭✭✭patmac


    Ovens in Cork and there is also a Hell in Michigan a chap got married for the second time there in winter as he said after his 1st marraige: 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I get married again'. True story.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭GAAman


    9 replies and not one mention of Magh for shame humour forum! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭coldfire1x


    Cockfosters in London :D

    There's a tube station with the same name as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭dak


    I see that they are trying to stop the theft of ****ing signs by adding more concrete and having bigger screws ! LOL:)


    Heres a few more !

    Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)
    Bastard (Norway)
    Beaver (Oklahoma, USA)
    Beaver Head (Idaho, USA)
    Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)
    Chinaman's Knob (Australia)
    Climax (Colorado, USA)
    **** (Spain)
    Cunter (Switzerland)
    Dik**** (India)
    Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada)
    Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border)
    Dongo (Congo - Democratic Republic)
    Effin (Limerick, Ireland)
    Fuku (Shensi, China)
    Fukue (Honshu, Japan)
    Fukui (Honshu, Japan)
    Fukum (Yemen)
    Hold With Hope (Greenland)
    Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
    Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)
    Little Dix Village (West Indies)
    Lord Berkeley's Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)
    Middle Intercourse Island (Australia)
    Muff (Northern Ireland)
    Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)
    Pis Pis River (Nicaragua)
    Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)
    Seymen (Turkey)
    Shafter (California, USA)
    Shag Island (Indian Ocean)
    ****lingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)
    Tittybong (Australia)
    Tong Fuk (Japan)
    Turdo (Romania)
    Twatt (Orkney, UK)
    **** (Germany)
    Wankendorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
    Wankener (India)
    Wankie (Zimbabwe)
    Wankie Colliery (Zimbabwe)
    **** River (Nicaragua)
    Wankum (Germany)
    Wet Beaver Creek (Australia


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭merlie


    dak wrote: »
    I see that they are trying to stop the theft of ****ing signs by adding more concrete and having bigger screws ! LOL:)


    Heres a few more !

    Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)
    Bastard (Norway)
    Beaver (Oklahoma, USA)
    Beaver Head (Idaho, USA)
    Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)
    Chinaman's Knob (Australia)
    Climax (Colorado, USA)
    **** (Spain)
    Cunter (Switzerland)
    Dik**** (India)
    Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada)
    Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border)
    Dongo (Congo - Democratic Republic)
    Effin (Limerick, Ireland)
    Fuku (Shensi, China)
    Fukue (Honshu, Japan)
    Fukui (Honshu, Japan)
    Fukum (Yemen)
    Hold With Hope (Greenland)
    Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
    Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)
    Little Dix Village (West Indies)
    Lord Berkeley's Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)
    Middle Intercourse Island (Australia)
    Muff (Northern Ireland)
    Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)
    Pis Pis River (Nicaragua)
    Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)
    Seymen (Turkey)
    Shafter (California, USA)
    Shag Island (Indian Ocean)
    ****lingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)
    Tittybong (Australia)
    Tong Fuk (Japan)
    Turdo (Romania)
    Twatt (Orkney, UK)
    **** (Germany)
    Wankendorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
    Wankener (India)
    Wankie (Zimbabwe)
    Wankie Colliery (Zimbabwe)
    **** River (Nicaragua)
    Wankum (Germany)
    Wet Beaver Creek (Australia

    :O Oh lordy I can't imagine living in those places! People would think its a joke!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    Sounds like Australia has great craic naming places. They speak English, they obviously know what they're calling it, and they're mostly just silly.

    Chinaman's Knob, like. Come on, they knew full well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭gar_29


    there's a place in cumbria called cockermouth


  • Registered Users Posts: 31 JB04


    dak wrote: »
    Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)

    Nobber is in Meath.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Nobber is in Meath.
    There can be more then one Nobber.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭A Primal Nut


    Muff Diving school ftw.

    There is also a place called Chinaman's knob. In Australia I believe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 204 ✭✭TheAlmightyZeus


    Sallygap

    /giggles like a schoolgirl


  • Registered Users Posts: 31 JB04


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    There can be more then one Nobber.

    Of course there can. Do you know of a place called Nobber in Donegal?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 Joeyjoejoe Jnr


    There is a place north east of mullingar called crazy corner


    http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.567587,-7.276211&spn=0.012412,0.027466&t=h&z=15


  • Registered Users Posts: 968 ✭✭✭Oliverdog


    Bell End in Coventry.
    Buttocks Booth in Northampton (now changed to Boothville by mealy-mouths. A plague on them).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭Ronin247


    Muff (Northern Ireland)


    Last time I looked Muff was in Donegal,and I like to look at muff quite a lot.


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