Moron....

[Mitchell]

Is a city in Eastern Argentina.. Southwest of Buenos Aires, Pop 327,000.

(I'll bet when people saw this post, they thought I was going to insult someone).

Sorry,. I couldn't resist.

The town whose name I remember cracking up with laughter at.

(No offense to any forum members who might live there)

Is.. Hohokus, NJ.

I remember, when I was very little.. I was driving with my maternal grandparents, we happened to pass Hohokus,. and my grandfather.. said .. really loud "This is.. Ho.. Ho Kus!".

I couldn't stop laughing.. at both the name of the town, and the way he said it.

Little did I know, that.. twenty five years later, I'd be living in an area in PA, which has towns with.. sexual names.. such as.

Intercourse, PA.

 

[Sensualswitch10]

Little did I know, that.. twenty five years later, I'd be living in an area in PA, which has towns with.. sexual names.. such as.

Intercourse, PA.

There is a town in Wisconsin named Pound.
I love visiting Pound town!

 

[BlasterMaster]

There is a literal street in Arizona called "Bucket of Blood".

Can you imagine filling out your place of birth on a form one day and having to put that street name. LOL.

 

[Sensualswitch10]

On my drive from Wisconsin to Ohio, where I am crashing at another members place on the way to NEST, I passed an exit leading to 2 cities in Indiana. Go one way to Whitestown, the other way takes you to Brownsburg. Segregate much?

 

[Nedstacey2]

There's a town not far from me here in central N.Y. State name o' Weedsport. Haven't researched it, but the backstory is probably something decidedly unsexy like it was named after some guy named Weed or Weeds (sure hope it was that and not a perverse celebration of crabgrass). As they say, any port in a storm, but some kinds of ports are definitely better.

Some sports too.

 

[paracarl44]

You can tell a person to go to Hell, Michigan.

 

[General Zod]

There is Climax,Michigan.

There is,or was a town in Newfoundland,Canada called Dildo.

 

[rdhd]

I guess you'd better be careful when going to Michigan, then.....

 

[Tenebrae]

There's a French town called "My ass" (Moncuq in the original language ; the "q" is silent).

 

[Nedstacey2]

There's a French town called "My ass" (Moncuq in the original language ; the "q" is silent).

Interesting; I know that in the variety of French spoken in Québec, the colloquial term for 'ass' (i.e., the human body part, not as an appellation for an obnoxious person) is cul which also ends in a silent l. So mon cuq and mon cul would then be pronounced identically, the phrases both ending with the peculiar (at least to the ears of English speakers) front rounded vowel [y] spelled u.

Not that I'm an expert on French or Canadian asses or have had much occasion to refer to them. American asses, well, those I'm besieged by, in the figurative sense of course.

 

[Tenebrae]

In France, the word is the same as in Quebec: cul, both in spelling and pronunciation. The town of Moncuq must have somehow preserved some sort of medieval spelling of it, or it originated from a totally different word.

Well, the TMF is really an awesome place. I've had numerous opportunities to dissertate on feet here, but it is the first time in 10+ years of membership that I am having a conversation on the French word for ass and its variants. We are an awesome community

 

[Aeveirra]

Wait.... What? There's actually a city named.... "Intercourse".

I'm not sure how long that term has been around, but I'm going to give the founders of that early town the benefit of the doubt, and say that it was likely coined after their named the settlement. (Btw, I have no idea if it was actually an early settlement - or not)

UNLESS !
The term did exist in the 1600s.... If so, this is how it happened;
There were a couple of drunken early explorers gathered around a campfire,
When one guy says; "You know, This is a nice place! What should we name it?"
The other guy is looking off into the woods, and he sees two deer engaged in deer sex-antics; and so, he points and goes: "INTERCOURSE!!!"

The first guy then responds with....." Hey... Yeah! This place is nice, and yeah! intercourse is nice too! Great idea!!"
And so Intercourse was founded -
- - - - Their City Motto, Being : Intercourse is nice, and it's a fine city too!

*giggles*

Granted - 17th-Century explorers probably were not the ones who named that city...
~ BUT ~ if they did, then that's exactly how such a name would have came about!!!
and, obviously if the word "intercourse" was in fact coined before the city existed-

Well..... WAS IT ???
Come on people!!! That type of information is crucial to unraveling this great American mystery!

Until then....
For now, my drunken-explorer theory is the closest thing we have to the truth!!!

 

[Nedstacey2]

I've had numerous opportunities to dissertate on feet here . . .

Funny you should put it that way; that was actually the topic area of my original dissertation proposal. I titled it Psychosexual and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Tickling Female Feet. Still can't understand why it was rejected; I mean, all through grad school they drummed into us how we needed to focus our research on things we were passionate about.

Oh well, at least those 20 years in the slammer after my conviction on the "corruption of morals" charge afforded me plenty of time to come up with another topic and finish my thesis. Thought it'd make me a cinch to land a tenure-track position in Applied Tickle-Torture of Women, but no. Must be all that open online university competition these days.

 

[Sodahead]

There is Climax,Michigan.

There is,or was a town in Newfoundland,Canada called Dildo.

There is a Climax in North Carolina as well. Someone made a t shirt that said "Climax, NC...where people come together."