What towns tickle YOUR fancy?If I was to live in Canada, I would certainly want to be in Medicine Hat; where else!
In the US of A, it would have to be Chattanooga; just to see the Choo Choo. In England, Scratchy Bottom; of course. In France, Condom (not really). In Denmark, Middlefart. And in Austria, I'd definitely want to live in Fucking.
But if by chance I was to return to live in Wales, then where else than in the above; Llanfair something something goggy goggy blah blah sillio etc etc. (Their town sign post begins just outside Molly's farm, and ends in Anglesea!)
Living in Bath means that if you do a Goggle search of it with the child-protecter switched off, you get some interesting photos of women at their ablutions. Places that begin with compass directions must have always been named by people who don't live there - 'North' something, or 'South' something - as they must have been north or south of the person who named them. That would piss me off. I want my own name for a place where I live.
ReplyDeleteIn Sussex, traditionally a place that begins with 'upper' is always lower than it's equivalent that begins with 'lower'. Likewise, such as East Grinstead is not east of West Grinstead, but north of it. Etc. Etc. I'd have wallowed in the pleasure of naming somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI drove though wetwang when I lived in Yorkshire
ReplyDeleteThat is the longest sign I've ever seen... wow.
ReplyDeleteI'd think you'd lose your ride trying to stand there and read that sign.
ReplyDeleteI lived in Chattanooga for a few years. I wouldn't move back.
ReplyDeleteps I live not so far from the above village ( the sign is the most interesting thing about it)
ReplyDeleteWillow. It just sounds so good; I could almost forgive any tedium.
ReplyDeleteJG. Sad that a village should only be known for it's railway station sign! We always called it Llanfair PG.
I once had my photo taken in front of that sign in Wales, but for some reason can't find it!
ReplyDeleteI've always fancied living in Chipping Sodbury...what's that about?
In my neck of the woods, the best choices for oddly-named towns are "Humptulips" and "Walla Walla" -- both Pacific Northwest Native American tribe names.
ReplyDeleteI've only been to Llanfair Gogogoch once and that was when I was little. I can remember buying this enormous pencil with the name printed in full all along it! Thought it was great!
ReplyDeleteI visited Chipping Sodbury when I was over there myfriends husband came form there,lovely place awfully hard to push a wheelchair on the cobled streets with a flat tyre though.
ReplyDeleteWe have such strange names over here that yours seem normal..Dunnydoo..Wagga Wagga,Mudgeribar,Hanging rock lol there are heaps of those in Oz must have been everyones fav when they were exploring each state has 2 at least..
Nothing can beat that name and I would hate to have to send a letter with that address on it. The address would be longer than the letter and I am sure I would misspell it. I have never lived in a place with as colorful a name as that, but I do live near Intercourse, PA. When I was first married we lived in a town named Bad Axe, Michigan which was a stones throw from Grindstone City. That is as adventurous as my life has been.
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