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No Snickering - That Road Sign Means Something Else

CRAPSTONE, England — When ordering things by telephone, Stewart Pearce tends to take a proactive approach to the inevitable question “What is your address?”

He lays it out straight, so there is no room for unpleasant confusion. “I say, ‘It’s spelled “crap,” as in crap,’ ” said Mr. Pearce, 61, who has lived in Crapstone, a one-shop country village in Devon, for decades.

Disappointingly, Mr. Pearce has so far been unable to parlay such delicate encounters into material gain, as a neighbor once did.

“Crapstone,” the neighbor said forthrightly, Mr. Pearce related, whereupon the person on the other end of the telephone repeated it to his co-workers and burst out laughing. “They said, ‘Oh, we thought it didn’t really exist,’ ” Mr. Pearce said, “and then they gave him a free something.”

In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Some are mostly amusing, like Ugley, Essex; East Breast, in western Scotland; North Piddle, in Worcestershire; and Spanker Lane, in Derbyshire.

Others evoke images that may conflict with residents’ efforts to appear dignified when, for example, applying for jobs.

These include Crotch Crescent, Oxford; Titty Ho, Northamptonshire; Wetwang, East Yorkshire; Slutshole Lane, Norfolk; and Thong, Kent. And, in a country that delights in lavatory humor, particularly if the word “bottom” is involved, there is Pratts Bottom, in Kent, doubly cursed because “prat” is slang for buffoon.

As for Penistone, a thriving South Yorkshire town, just stop that sophomoric snickering.

“It’s pronounced ‘PENNIS-tun,’ ” Fiona Moran, manager of the Old Vicarage Hotel in Penistone, said over the telephone, rather sharply. When forced to spell her address for outsiders, she uses misdirection, separating the tricky section into two blameless parts: “p-e-n” — pause — “i-s-t-o-n-e.”

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Gotta love these British names! I kinda like Spanker Lane. ;)

I'd totally take pride if my city or town had an awesome name like these...

"I'm from Slutshole..."

Why does this sound like a Monty Python routine?

I don't know but with names like these it ought to be hilarious. ^_^

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...APSTONEmap.jpg

That needs to be my wallpaper on my cell....

Now that's pretty amusing stuff. haha

I can't recall any silly street names like those in my city. Kinda good and bad at the same time.

oh man...can it possibly get any better than Titty Ho?

And in the good old USA:

http://www.800padutch.com/intercourse.shtml

On top of that, it's an Amish village! :lol:

The best I've seen was over here there was road called "Thorny Road" and some kids nicked the T so it became "Horny Road" :P

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Originally Posted by Evenstar227 (Post 665779)

I don't know but with names like these it ought to be hilarious. ^_^

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...APSTONEmap.jpg

:lol:

The map says it all.

There's a street in my hometown...its name is pronounced "Hairy Balls."

On a road trip through Michigan, I went through this small unpopulated town called Hell.

http://www.hell2u.com/

There's a street in my area called Nob Hill :lol:

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Originally Posted by Bigfoot (Post 666487)

On a road trip through Michigan, I went through this small unpopulated town called Hell.

http://www.hell2u.com/

Awesome...now when I tell someone to go to Hell, I can also provide directions! :lol:

Best I can think of in my area is a street called Fricker Court.

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Originally Posted by Evenstar227 (Post 666645)

Awesome...now when I tell someone to go to Hell, I can also provide directions! :lol:

Thank you for playing Twisted Metal.

There is town in the UK called Piddle In The Hole

There's a few other weird ones here like "Knocksharry" and "The Cronk"

When I was on holiday, I saw a hotel called "The Royalgay hotel" and I LOLed in the taxi I was in, making my sis curious. :lol:

Ha, I've seen some of those on FailBlog and Engrish Funny.