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  • B Brisingr Aerowing

    Accident, Maryland[^] :doh: What other odd place names have you guys (and gals) seen? List on wiki[^]

    What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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    Sascha Lefevre
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    There are a lot of odd place names in Germany.. a small selection: "Sommerloch" - summer slump / silly season "Drogen" - drugs "Oberkaka" - major poop :laugh:

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    • B Brisingr Aerowing

      Accident, Maryland[^] :doh: What other odd place names have you guys (and gals) seen? List on wiki[^]

      What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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      RossMW
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      USA seems to be the home a odd names. Hell,_Michigan[^] Intercourse,_Pennsylvania[^] And I'm sure there plenty of others.. Locally we we have Eureka Waikato NZ and Near Porangahau in Hawke’s Bay is an unassuming hill known as "Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu", which translates into English as "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater’, played his flute to his loved one." Locals simply call it Taumata Hill.

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        There are a lot of odd place names in Germany.. a small selection: "Sommerloch" - summer slump / silly season "Drogen" - drugs "Oberkaka" - major poop :laugh:

        If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

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        Brisingr Aerowing
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        :laugh:

        What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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        • B Brisingr Aerowing

          Accident, Maryland[^] :doh: What other odd place names have you guys (and gals) seen? List on wiki[^]

          What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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          Kent Sharkey
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          Newfoundland. Everywhere there (or at least enough that it's their main advertising campaign): Happy Valley, Heart's Desire, Come By Chance, Mistaken Point, Jerrys Nose (no apostrophe), and of course, Dildo. And many others I'm probably forgetting. Oh, not Newfoundland, but there is a Climax, Saskatchewan[^].

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          • B Brisingr Aerowing

            Accident, Maryland[^] :doh: What other odd place names have you guys (and gals) seen? List on wiki[^]

            What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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            Dave Kreskowiak
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            I live about an hour and half from Hell[^]. Yes, every year, Hell does freeze over.

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            • B Brisingr Aerowing

              Accident, Maryland[^] :doh: What other odd place names have you guys (and gals) seen? List on wiki[^]

              What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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              Vikram A Punathambekar
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              but it's hard to get this one past the CP filters: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria[^] ;) [edit]Looks like the swear word filter breaks the URL[/edit]

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              • B Brisingr Aerowing

                Accident, Maryland[^] :doh: What other odd place names have you guys (and gals) seen? List on wiki[^]

                What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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                There is a village called Weston-under-Lizard[^], Brest, in France[^], another French town called Condom[^] There is a QI list of Rudest Place names: http://old.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?p=287730[^]

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                • S Sascha Lefevre

                  There are a lot of odd place names in Germany.. a small selection: "Sommerloch" - summer slump / silly season "Drogen" - drugs "Oberkaka" - major poop :laugh:

                  If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

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                  Jorgen Andersson
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                  Not just places. Person names are even worse. I got very intrigued when I realized there existed people with the surnames Knoblauch and Rindfleich, which translates to Garlic and Beef respectively. And there really exists people with the surnames Titte, Fickbaum, Feuchtenbeiner, Muschi, Breitscheid or Luderfinger. (use a translation program, it probably just turns into a load of stars if I write it out) But it doesn't stop there, some parents are really mean. If your surname is Schweiss, a fairly common surname, you don't name your kid Axel. (Arm pit sweat)

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                  • B Brisingr Aerowing

                    Accident, Maryland[^] :doh: What other odd place names have you guys (and gals) seen? List on wiki[^]

                    What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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                    JimmyRopes
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                    Nowhere, Oklahoma[^]

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                    • J Jorgen Andersson

                      Not just places. Person names are even worse. I got very intrigued when I realized there existed people with the surnames Knoblauch and Rindfleich, which translates to Garlic and Beef respectively. And there really exists people with the surnames Titte, Fickbaum, Feuchtenbeiner, Muschi, Breitscheid or Luderfinger. (use a translation program, it probably just turns into a load of stars if I write it out) But it doesn't stop there, some parents are really mean. If your surname is Schweiss, a fairly common surname, you don't name your kid Axel. (Arm pit sweat)

                      Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                      Johnny J
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                      Axel Schweiss LOL :laugh: I used to work with a Knoblauch in Denmark several decades ago... Luckily he didn't smell of garlic... ;) I could wish for a female colleague named Titte or Feuchtenbeiner (are you serious, is somebody actually called that?) - just think of the fun you could have with that... In Denmark, as well as Sweden, Pitt is a slang word for penis, and Stiv means "stiff", so I have a long standing joke (no pun intended) about Brad Pitt having an unknown brother called Steve. Normally, it takes people a short while to connect Steve with Pitt and realise what it could also mean. But then they normally break out laughing...

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                      • J Jorgen Andersson

                        Not just places. Person names are even worse. I got very intrigued when I realized there existed people with the surnames Knoblauch and Rindfleich, which translates to Garlic and Beef respectively. And there really exists people with the surnames Titte, Fickbaum, Feuchtenbeiner, Muschi, Breitscheid or Luderfinger. (use a translation program, it probably just turns into a load of stars if I write it out) But it doesn't stop there, some parents are really mean. If your surname is Schweiss, a fairly common surname, you don't name your kid Axel. (Arm pit sweat)

                        Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                        Johnny J
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                        LOL, I didn't even notice it was you I replied to Jörgen... :doh: So you obviously know the Steve Pitt joke?!?!? :laugh:

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                        • B Brisingr Aerowing

                          Accident, Maryland[^] :doh: What other odd place names have you guys (and gals) seen? List on wiki[^]

                          What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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                          Bergholt Stuttley Johnson
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                          Ramsbottom, but its in Lancashire so that would explain it

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                            LOL, I didn't even notice it was you I replied to Jörgen... :doh: So you obviously know the Steve Pitt joke?!?!? :laugh:

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                            Jorgen Andersson
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                            Classic fifth grade joke.

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                              Axel Schweiss LOL :laugh: I used to work with a Knoblauch in Denmark several decades ago... Luckily he didn't smell of garlic... ;) I could wish for a female colleague named Titte or Feuchtenbeiner (are you serious, is somebody actually called that?) - just think of the fun you could have with that... In Denmark, as well as Sweden, Pitt is a slang word for penis, and Stiv means "stiff", so I have a long standing joke (no pun intended) about Brad Pitt having an unknown brother called Steve. Normally, it takes people a short while to connect Steve with Pitt and realise what it could also mean. But then they normally break out laughing...

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                              Jorgen Andersson
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                              Johnny J. wrote:

                              are you serious, is somebody actually called that?)

                              Yes seriously, check the phone directory.

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                              • B Brisingr Aerowing

                                Accident, Maryland[^] :doh: What other odd place names have you guys (and gals) seen? List on wiki[^]

                                What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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                                  USA seems to be the home a odd names. Hell,_Michigan[^] Intercourse,_Pennsylvania[^] And I'm sure there plenty of others.. Locally we we have Eureka Waikato NZ and Near Porangahau in Hawke’s Bay is an unassuming hill known as "Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu", which translates into English as "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater’, played his flute to his loved one." Locals simply call it Taumata Hill.

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                                  • B Brisingr Aerowing

                                    Accident, Maryland[^] :doh: What other odd place names have you guys (and gals) seen? List on wiki[^]

                                    What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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                                    Leveland, Texas- one of if not the flattest place I have ever been. Truth or Consequences, New Mexico - was originally Hot Springs but changed it's name to that of the TV program. Opp, Alabama

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                                    • B Brisingr Aerowing

                                      Accident, Maryland[^] :doh: What other odd place names have you guys (and gals) seen? List on wiki[^]

                                      What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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                                      There is a place called Bitsch[^] (pronounced like in English without the "s")

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                                      • J Jorgen Andersson

                                        Not just places. Person names are even worse. I got very intrigued when I realized there existed people with the surnames Knoblauch and Rindfleich, which translates to Garlic and Beef respectively. And there really exists people with the surnames Titte, Fickbaum, Feuchtenbeiner, Muschi, Breitscheid or Luderfinger. (use a translation program, it probably just turns into a load of stars if I write it out) But it doesn't stop there, some parents are really mean. If your surname is Schweiss, a fairly common surname, you don't name your kid Axel. (Arm pit sweat)

                                        Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                                        I knew a guy whose given name was Charles. He went by "Chuck". His older brother, Robert, went by "Bob". Last name? Bobinchuck.

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