Towns With Unusual Names

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  1. Holly Saunders

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    Here in my county we have a place called Boggy Bottom

    ..and a place in Dorset county called Scratchy Bottom

    There's a place in Cornwall called Brown Willy ....and one called Bastardstown, in Ireland
     
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    @Holly Saunders
    Back in the day, the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas offered a large variety of unusual cocktails in it's South Seas bar. One of those was called "The Miserable Bastard". Really quite tasty!
    Frank
     
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    I once had a pastor who was from Coon Pecker Hollow, West Virginia. That was a geographical place however, and not a town. I think they changed its name to Coon Hollow.
     
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  5. Hal Pollner

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    I suppose it was later called "Raccoon Depression"
    Hal
     
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    • Nothing, Arizona
    • Cool, California
    • Humansville, Missouri
    • Jot-Em-Down, Texas
    • Cheesecake, New Jersey
    • Unalaska, Alaska
    • Santa Claus, Georgia
    • Accident, Maryland
    • Peculiar, Missouri
    • Puke, Albania
    • Whynot, Mississippi
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    I wonder if 9-1-1 in Whynot gets a lot of unnecessary 9-1-1 calls.
     
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    When I lived in Albuquerque, we used to camp at Elephant Butte Lake fairly frequently and would stop in T or C. Interesting little town,
     
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