Do you enjoy odd or unusual place names, for instance ,Two Egg, Florida?

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helenbacque

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I once spent several hours in Two Egg trying to learn how it got its name. Everyone I spoke with there had a different answer. Another favorite (and when things get stressful, I repeat it like a mantra) Woolloomooloo. It soothes my mind. Woolloomooloo is a pretty little suburb of Sydney, NSW Australia and the name is thought to be derived from the aboriginal word for young black kangaroo.
 

Yes. Fly, Ohio. A post office was established in 1886. From what I can find out, the townspeople selected the name simply on account of its brevity.

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On the weekends we would hike on the Olympic peninsula in places called Dosewallips (pronounced dosey-wallops), Duckabush, and Hamma Hamma.... In the California high desert, I paid customers a weekly visit in an extremely toxic, smelly town called Trona, should have been named trauma. My aunt lived in Truth or Consequences Mew Mexico.
 
At the top of my retirement activities list is riding motorcycle to interesting places - I'm shopping for a motorcycle that is suited to this.
I went to the Smokey mountains years ago, but I went with people that have been there many times so they didn't stop to take pictures or ride slow enough to enjoy the scenery, so I really want to go back.
While planning my route to there (and back) I've found a town called French Lick Indiana. I will definitely go a bit out of my way to take a picture of my bike in front the the 'Welcome to French Lick' sign (or the post office...). Or, I might just go to French Lick as a 'practice' trip to break-in my new motorcycle.
 
Boring, Oregon. Weed, California. French Lick, Indiana (which isn't anywhere near as interesting as it sounds....) Santa Claus, Indiana (he moved to the North Pole). There used to be a town called Scratch Ankle, Florida but they changed the name.

I can't locate it right now, but there is a lake in New York that has a really, really long name, a Native American name that translates roughly to "You fish on the east side, we'll fish on the west side and nobody fishes in the middle".
 
There is a village in Devon England, called Crapstone, it is near
Yelverton at the edge of Dartmoor.

Mike.

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helenbacque said:
I once spent several hours in Two Egg trying to learn how it got its name. Everyone I spoke with there had a different answer. Another favorite (and when things get stressful, I repeat it like a mantra) Woolloomooloo. It soothes my mind. Woolloomooloo is a pretty little suburb of Sydney, NSW Australia and the name is thought to be derived from the aboriginal word for young black kangaroo.
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Woolloomooloo...I love it. Kind of a murmuring internal lullaby. Thank you.
 
When driving from Athens to Atlanta I used to go through "Between" Georgia.

Have also been to "Rest and Be Thankful" in Scotland - (if you miss the ferry and have to drive the long way around from Glasgow to Dunoon, you go through that.)

Also love "Medicine Hat" in Canada.
 
And then there's Taintsville.

"Hey, Pardner? Where 'bout you livin' now?"

"Down th' road a piece. T'aint Chuluota and t'aint Oviedo, jest somewhere in between."

And so it became Taintsville. All three to the east of Orlando, FL. Oviedo is a sizable community, Chuluota a bit smaller and Taintsville is little more than a road sign and local joke.
 

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