Rude Place Names: I can understand how a foreign country can have an obscene name for a town because it's a different language, but when an English-speaking country has a rude name...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I can understand how a foreign country can have an obscene name for a town because it's a different language, but when an English-speaking country has a rude name, someone obviously had a sense of humor. There was a town in NW NY named Swastika. It shows up in some maps but not others.

http://mashable.com/2016/11/22/world-map-rude-place-names.amp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_New_York

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

What is rude about swastika? The swastika is a very old symbol used by different cultures and really has nothing to do with the hooked cross symbol of the old German national socialist party.

Here's a couple town names near here that some folks consider rude, Intercourse PA and Blue Ball PA.

Billbobboy42 Loc: Center of Delmarva

jerryc41 wrote:

I can understand how a foreign country can have an obscene name for a town because it's a different language, but when an English-speaking country has a rude name, someone obviously had a sense of humor. There was a town in NW NY named Swastika. It shows up in some maps but not others.

http://mashable.com/2016/11/22/world-map-rude-place-names.amp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_New_York

Jerry, I seem to remember that there is/was a town in Pa. that was named Intercourse. Seeing the one in Florida jogged my memory.

cheineck Loc: Hobe Sound, FL

Billbobboy42 wrote:

Jerry, I seem to remember that there is/was a town in Pa. that was named Intercourse. Seeing the one in Florida jogged my memory.

Blue Balls is in PA too.

GLS Loc: MIdwest

jerryc41 wrote:

I can understand how a foreign country can have an obscene name for a town because it's a different language, but when an English-speaking country has a rude name, someone obviously had a sense of humor. There was a town in NW NY named Swastika. It shows up in some maps but not others.

http://mashable.com/2016/11/22/world-map-rude-place-names.amp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_New_York

This last summer new neighbors moved in a couple of houses to the east. They were from Beaverlick, Kentucky. Must admit I found myself having a difficult time keeping a straight face when Bruce first introduced himself.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

rmorrison1116 wrote:

What is rude about swastika? The swastika is a very old symbol used by different cultures and really has nothing to do with the hooked cross symbol of the old German national socialist party.

Here's a couple town names near here that some folks consider rude, Intercourse PA and Blue Ball PA.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Billbobboy42 wrote:

Jerry, I seem to remember that there is/was a town in Pa. that was named Intercourse. Seeing the one in Florida jogged my memory.

Yes, I drove through there years ago. Lots of people stop by the sign to have their pictures taken. Of course, where "intercourse" is concerned, we tend to think of only one kind of intercourse.

James Slick Loc: Pittsburgh,PA

Billbobboy42 wrote:

Jerry, I seem to remember that there is/was a town in Pa. that was named Intercourse. Seeing the one in Florida jogged my memory.

Don't forget Bird in Hand,PA

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

There's a lot of 'bottoms' around here. All refer to the small valleys eroded out of the soft chalk Chiltern Hills I live on and mostly named after a family that farmed there for a long time. Beacons Bottom is a small hamlet and is the closest of the 'bottoms' to me.

shagbat Loc: London

jerryc41 wrote:

I can understand how a foreign country can have an obscene name for a town because it's a different language, but when an English-speaking country has a rude name, someone obviously had a sense of humor. There was a town in NW NY named Swastika. It shows up in some maps but not others.

http://mashable.com/2016/11/22/world-map-rude-place-names.amp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_New_York

I lived in Twatt for a year, on Shetland, the more southern one is on Orkney.
I could tolerate the jokes as the place was so stunningly beautiful, I loved it!

chase4 Loc: Punta Corona, California

Newfoundland, Canada has a town called Dildo and several others with suggestive names. chase

FrankR Loc: NYC

Let's not forget Sugar Tit SC, Big Bone KY and Wankers Corner OR. How long do you think it takes to get from that last place to Climax NC?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Funny

Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

jerryc41 wrote:

I can understand how a foreign country can have an obscene name for a town because it's a different language, but when an English-speaking country has a rude name, someone obviously had a sense of humor. There was a town in NW NY named Swastika. It shows up in some maps but not others.

http://mashable.com/2016/11/22/world-map-rude-place-names.amp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_New_York

Had a laugh at some, but in my neck of the woods, Western Australia, some are already named that.
Eg: Mount Meharry is in the Pilbara, Koolyanobbing, is about where it's marked, Intercourse Island, I've worked there.
Then there is Bullshit hill, all our cities have a Bullshit hill, sometimes called Parliment house.
Interestingly, they are all connected to mining. Meharry is in Iron ore country, Koolyanobbing also in mining, not sure what it mines, FCUK Island, is where millions of tonnes of iron ore is shipped out from, a port facility.
I wonder how many others are real names?

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Google Maps found it immediately.
Ugly name!!
Mark

jerryc41 wrote:

I can understand how a foreign country can have an obscene name for a town because it's a different language, but when an English-speaking country has a rude name, someone obviously had a sense of humor. There was a town in NW NY named Swastika. It shows up in some maps but not others.

http://mashable.com/2016/11/22/world-map-rude-place-names.amp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_New_York

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