Top 10 Rudest Place Names in America
Friday, 4th December 2009 by Chris Hannigan
Back in February, GSS presented the wildly popular Top 10 Rudest Place Names in Britain. Now, it's time for the American version! Take a deep breath, bring forth your sense of humor, and drum roll please...
10. Smackover, Arkansas: Claims to have the only "center of the road" traffic light in Arkansas!
9. French Lick, Indiana: Former home of Pluto Water, a laxative with the slogan "When Nature Won't, PLUTO Will"!
8. Tightwad, Missouri: Supposedly named by a postman following an incident involving a watermelon and an extra fifty cents!
7. Climax, Minnesota: The actual town motto is "Climax - More than just a feeling"!
6. Gayville, South Dakota: Conveniently located in Yankton County!
5. Cumming, Georgia: Nicknamed the "Gateway to Leisure Living"!
4. Horneytown, North Carolina: Be sure to get the t-shirt!
3. Big Bone Lick State Park, Kentucky: Accessable by taking a ride on Beaver Road!
2. Hooker, Oklahoma: Home to the Horny Toads baseball team!
1. Cooter, Missouri: No, not because of the Dukes of Hazzard character!
Honorable mentions by popular request - Hell, Michigan and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico!
For similar GSS stories, be sure to check out Top 10 Rudest Place Names in Britain, Top 10 des noms de villes grossiers en France, Top 10 Unanständigste Ortsamen in Deutschland, Top Ten Confusing Place Names, and Longest Place Names.
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Bird in Hand, PA https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=10351&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=33.128407,-107.25281&z=12
Blue Ball , PA https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=10351&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=33.128407,-107.25281&z=12
As I recall, Blue Ball, PA is just a little ways north of Intercourse, PA, which in turn right next to Paradise, PA.
I spent a fair bit of time in that area in my teens, and the running joke was that if you start at Blue Ball and go through Intercourse you find Paradise. (The three towns really are pretty much right in a row, though unfortunately for the joke, there isn’t a road connecting them in a straight shot.)
Beaver, Utah
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I can’t believe you missed out Wanker’s Corner View Placemark (45.375061,-122.70249)
Bah, for some reason the maps link doesn’t show the place name now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankers_Corner%2C_Oregon
Anyone fancy a swim in Spunk Lake,Minnesota ? https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=10351&c=207478&t=h&hl=en&ll=45.604431,-94.465599&z=14
Lol!
But would you get soaked in Lower Spunk Lake, Middle Spunk Lake, Or Upper Spunk lake? The choice is yours!
Who could forget Intercourse, PA?
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How about Come by Chance, Joe Batt’s Arm, Heart’s Content, Too Good Arm and the infamous Dildo? All towns in Newfoundaland
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Searching google maps for Dildo, NL gives you some interesting Google Ad results
French Lick , IN is the hometown of America basketball legend Larry Bird.
Also a Climax in Michigan: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=42.245548,-85.335274&z=13
So what in your homophobic world is rude about Gayville?
Well that’s a fair point bigyaz, we shouldn’t consider that rude.
…but then there’s nothing intrinsically rude about the word “climax” either. I suppose this post would have been better titled “Funniest Place Names in America”, and was only “rude” to fit in with the other posts we’ve run in the past.
Apologies if we’ve offended anyone, we had no intention of that.
Yea I grew up in Gayville, sd. Some of the people are rude, but otherwise it is a nice place to nice.
How about Gayloardsville?
couldn’t get the name to show on the map but found a nice shot of the local fire department…
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Belchertown, Massachusetts
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How about COW SHIT CORNER, MAINE ???
Intercourse, PA
Hell, Michigan
Coxsackie, NY
Bald Knob, Arkansas
Intercourse, PA, and Athol, MA, are more worthy than either of your honorable mentions.
Let us not forget Climax, MI
Don’t forget Humptulips, Washington!!
How could you miss Morehead, Kentucky?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morehead,_Kentucky
LOL 😛
Greetings from Looneyville, West Virginia! (or is it Texas? Or New York?)
Here are some more places to snigger at:
Knoblick, Missouri (perhaps twinned with Knob Lick, Kentucky)
Dickshooter, Idaho (it’s south-west of Comical Turn.)
Dry Prong, Louisiana
Virginville, Pennsylvania (or in West, um, Virgina)
It should also be noted that you must take Exit 69 to get onto Beaver Road to get to Big Bone Lick……..they’re really pushing the limits of acceptable rudeness
There is a Twin Knobs, KY. Its in Rowan County (Morehead), KY.
how could they have missed this one?
http://collegecandy.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/wtf-obscene-street.jpg
The funny thing about Climax, MN is a neighboring town is Fertile. A newspaper headline stated once “Fertile man dies in Climax.” Not a joke either! I think Jay Leno had that one on!
Bumpass, Virginia?
Floyds Knobs, IN =0)
How could you possible leave out Bangor, ME?