h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Some pretty strange town names:

Climax, Michigan, USA
Crackpot, England
Crotch Lake, Ontario, Canada
Cut and Shoot, Texas, USA
Deadhorse, Alaska, USA
Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada
Ding Dong, Texas, USA
F**king, Austria
French Lick, Indiana, USA
Half.com, Oregon, USA
Holy Moses, Colorado, USA
Knockemstiff, Ohio, USA
Monkey's Eyebrow, Arizona, USA
Nameless, Texas, USA
Needmore, Texas, USA
Nothing, Arizona, USA
Notrees, Texas, USA
Smackover, Arkansas, USA
Sopchoppy, Florida, USA
Toad Suck, Arkansas, USA


.... and .... Intercourse, Pennsylvania (I've been there!!! took a photo outside the information centre - sorry, center!)

that last bit was the useless fact...

W

It took The Guardian a long time to do a piece about that particular urban myth. I remember being told about the 'naughty names' in Pugwash back in the early '80s!

Ey?!
Are they not true then?
How disappointing
... and how sneaky to put it in a real one as well!

Intercourse, PA is in Amish country, near Philly...


Wilma

... actually, Knockenstiff, OH is real too. It's in Ross County.

Hmmm
more research required

... so far they're all true.

what did the Guardian do, DQ?
Wilma

Monkey's Eyebrow, my favourite..

Don't forget Batman, which is in Turkey.

>>> Batman <<


Heh heh, I remembered that and something about an eclipse viewing then went googling and... I found it!

http://eclipse-tour.eclipsetours.com/899.html


Wilma

There is a village on Mainland, Orkney, which is called Twatt. I have visited said village, although this event has been likened to sending coals to Newcastle.

there's a village in the cotswolds called Piddle. i remember being there as a kid and giggling uncontrollably that people could live in piddle..

i also remember seeing a place name on my travels called 'phart' but i cant remember where it was..

today's useless fact is that i have 2 t shirts on under all my clothing because (again) the heating in work is broken..... what's useless is that they make no difference to how cold i am..

Aye Bee - that would be North and / or Wyre Piddle then - in Worcestershire
Wyre Piddle has a great pub called "The Fleet" which has provided me with many in the past. ~(useless info)

I love the name - Nempnett Thrubwell in Somerset - wonder where that came from

ahhhh. thanks for that

you shouldn't have told me though cos that was being useful....

could one have a at 10 am on a monday morning in order to warm up.. a nice brandy and port would suffice.. i think it's the least they owe us, wealthy company like ours running out of oil for the heating system.. not acceptable..

oh. and some mince pies..
hot ones pleeez

10 is a touch early what with sun and yards arms and all that isn't it??

I should have thought a would go more for rum




Morgans spiced would be perfect

"that would be North and / or Wyre Piddle then "

Those are the ones you see named on signposts. Tucked away somewhere there's also Piddle-in-the-Hole, a name that causes even more amusement.

I thought that was another pub!

How did you miss Bald Knob, Arkansas?

Irish pop group The Corrs make annoyingly bland records.

That's not useless, that's damn usweful information, Gur! I shall avoid buying any of their recordings based on this data.

On town names, there's all those one in The Meaning Of Liff, which includes Piddletrenthide. And Nempnet Thrubwell, unless I'm very much mistaken.

My favourite place name is Westward Ho! because it has an exclamation mark.

A peanut is not, in fact, a nut. It is a legume.

Peanuts cannot vomit underwater.

RF

More on Batman...

When I worked for a market research company we had a manual listing occupations (to help with the social grading malarkey). Two of the jobs listed were Batman and Spiderman.