Check it out...My very own town in Hertfordshire. I wonder if I can move back?

Ware, England (http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=SG129DW&scale=50000)

I wonder if you can decree that the town be filled with women in knee-high boots who like to wear thongs?

I thought Butte, Montana was named after you.

Or maybe it was French Lick, Indiana...

:p

Thanks for the thought, DR. I did a little more reseach and found your ancestral home:


Sac City, Iowa

or was it: Crappo, MD

or maybe: Bobo, MS

or my personal favorite: Humptulips, WA

:p

Actually, I'm from Magnet, Nebraska. As in "chick."

I'm sorry - I seem to be confused! I'd thought you were from Gaysport, Ohio.

No wait - you're a swingin' bachelor, as I recall. Maybe I was thinking of Blue Ball, PA. No?

Well let's see - are you circumsized? If not, then maybe you came from Dry Prong, LA. No?

Hmm. Do you "play it safe," in the field? Ya know, wrap the captain? If you're not careful, you could be from Burning Springs, KY. No?

I'll remember it I'm sure...

(tee hee this is fun :roll: )

If you would rather take the Kennedy Clan than the English royals, you could just drive up the road to Ware, MA! (http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&state=&db=US&overviewmap=&lang=&client=public&advanced=&addr2=&addr3=Ware&pc=&X=-8041710&Y=5171188&scale=50000&cidr_client=none&coordsys=mercator&place=WARE,+MA,+)

The worst name of a town is Come By Chance, Newfoundland.

Ive found a Town named after my Family

Here (http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?X=340000&Y=660000&width=500&height=300&client=public&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&scale=100000&advanced=&lang=&multimap.x=208&multimap.y=77)

and ive actually visited it, so Sir Bel, BEAT THAT!!

[EDIT:] It Even has a Castle, GO ME!! (shame its a ruined castle tho :( )

[ December 19, 2003, 22:42: Message edited by: Blackthorne TA ]

My family has an island in Canada named after us. Well, not really us but my Dad had this B.S. story about his grandfather discovering it.

My great grandfather was one of the early Canadian bush pilots so the story seemed at least somewhat plausible but my mother eventually managed to find the island, complete with its current name, on a map dated well before my great grandfather was born.

I am tempted to try to buy the island. Given its location I can't imagine that it is worth much. If I did I suppose I could try to collect rent from the seals and polar bears. :D

There are several towns in the US with the same name as my family. And apparantly there's a town called Swastika, Ontario! It would be awkward being of German descent there!

:yot: here maybe, but there is a village about a couple of miles from mine, and in that village lives a guy that has the exact same name as me. :eek:

What worries me more is that he is selling the same kind of snowmobile that i own!...

Beat that anyone! :D

Is it you from the future?

Some of my ancestors named their chief town after themselves, but it doesn't exist any longer. It would be somewhere in Ukraine now IIRC.

There's still a town in Poland called like another bunch of my ancestors, but it doesn't count since they got their name from the town (not like it surely was a town at that time ;) )and not the other way round.

My personal favorite is Climax, Michigan. Though weirdo "conservative" nutjobs may say if you go there too often you'll end up in Hell, Michigan.

Ran across this not too long ago.... My last name is in there even hehe You Americans sure have some odd towns. :spin: :rolling:
http://www.geocities.com/eddyd84/towns.html

Methinks NZ has some of the more interesting names for towns. Many places still retain their Maori names and when said, in English, they sound very interesting.

Two key examples.

Waikikamukow (Pronounced: Why-kick-a-moo-cow)
and
Whakapapa (Pronounced: F*ck-a-papa [i.e. father])

:)

There is a town named after me in Manitoba. Second biggest city there. Don't quite know why this excites me.

My guess is that Rosanne is from Middlesex, NJ. :D

Other cool names in Sweden is:

Fittja: Misspelling of p.u.s.s.y.
Bögared: Gayhole
Trosa: Panty

The founders probably knew their towns were in middle of nowhere, so would it matter if they called it, for example; horse urine? :p

I bet there is even a town called "Virne" somewhere...

Well this one's nice :rolleyes:

Waits for the jokes to begin..... (http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?GridE=&GridN=&client=public&lon=-93.6342&lat=36.6322&place=Shell+Knob,+Missouri,+United+States&db=w3&local=&type=&start=&coordsys=&limit=&overviewmap=&scale=1000000)

ROTFLMAO LOL!! :D :grin: