Welcome to Toad Suck. The weirdest town names in all 50 states

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Originally published at: Welcome to Toad Suck. The weirdest town names in all 50 states | Boing Boing

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[Mindysan33]

Illinois : Chicken Bristle

OH!

Massachusetts : Satan’s Kingdom

[Hank]

French Lick, Indiana is way weirder than Santa Claus.

[Mindysan33]

[xkot]

I would put Ty Ty, Georgia ahead of Flippen on the Weirdometer … though I do admit you can have more fun with Flippen. “This Flippen town is the flippenest place in the flippen state!”

[theophrastus]

Who got to vote on these? merely “Big Bottom” for (my) Washington State? When we’ve got so many other fun options like: “Humptulips”, “Chumstick” ,“Gorst”, “Shreck”, or even “Swede Heaven”?? (The new weather-caster hazing contest is to force them to say “Puyallup” correctly)

[jhbadger]

Is Jackpot, NV really that weird of a name? Nevada’s tourism industry is largely based on its legalized gambling, so a town name that makes people think about gambling is just sound marketing. Apparently it is close to the Idaho border and would presumably get a lot of casino customers from there.

[manybellsdown]

I’m fond of Sequim myself. That just sounds so obscene.

[MadLibrarian]

Can confirm, my mom visited Toad Suck State Park.

[llamaspit]

I would submit that Two Egg, Florida should be on the list.

[smilr]

I can understand why it wasn’t selected, having never been actually incorporated, but I find Wanker’s Corner to be a far more evocative choice than “Boring” for Oregon.

[DoctorDuck]

Got me a trucker cap from Big Bone Lick park. Not far from Rabbit Hash.

[ospalh]

I guess there isn’t that much choice in town names in Nebraska, weird or not, but Worms is a perfectly fine city name for Germans.

[d_r]

Likewise “Volcano” isn’t a stretch for a village adjacent to a huge, active volcano.

[agro]

I think Dickshooter ID is much weirder than beer bottle crossing

[jhbadger]

Of course. But everyone learning about the Reformation (at least in English speaking countries) finds the phrase “Diet of Worms” amusing.

[anon76551318]

Is toad sucking a real thing? I first heard about it in a Mason Williams monologue back in the mid-60s.

Them Toad Suckers

[chgoliz]

Nice place, actually: a spa town.

[deedub]

@xkot

you can have more fun with Flippen.

[UberAlice]

Much more disturbing to me is the habit here in Ohio of naming after famous places with completely different pronunciations:
Russia, Ohio ( Rooshy)
Versailles, Ohio ( Ver-sails)
Bellefontaine, Ohio (Bell-fountaIn)
Lima, Ohio (Lyma)
This is just off the top of my head (haid)