Who'd A Thought It - Alabama
Eek - Alaska
Humptulips - Washington
Knockemstiff - Ohio
Wynot - Nebraska
What Cheer - Iowa
Superior Bottom - West Virginia
Embarrass - Wisconsin

so I went searching on the net and here are a few more
Shitlingthorpe - Yorkshire, UK
Bastard - Norway
Twatt - Orkney, UK
Muff - Northern Ireland
Turdo - Romania
Shag Island - Indian Ocean
Wet Beaver Creek - Australia
Tittybong - Australia
Blow Me Down - Newfoundland, Canada
Old Man's Head - Newfoundland, Canada
Big Ugly - West Virginia, USA
Piddle-in-the-Hole - England
Come by Chance - Newfoundland (there is one in Australia also)

Have you seen anymore that make you raise your eyebrows and grin (or cover Granny's eyes) as you drive past?

There are more, but I'll have to think a bit.

Of course coming from a country with place names like Moosejaw and Medicine Hat, I really shouldn't laugh.

This town in the Southwestern area of France finally put up a museum for birth control methods.
Very nice little town.

Moncul, France (my posterior in French)

Cheers,ozzz2002

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a small town in south Alabama now known as Union used to be known as Intercourse.

Three Forks, Montana.

It's the place where three rivers come together to form the Missouri.

Jerry

Batman - Turkey (Now, where's Robin?)
Fukuoka - Japan (If you don't see it, I'm not explaining it!)
Malmö - Sweden (Not really strange, per se. I just think it's cool!)

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One was spelled Waaia, and the other was Wunghu. The test is.. how do you pronounce them?

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Okay Ozzz, nobody I've asked has ever heard of these two places .... so will you tell us how they are pronounced?

Once Brewed and it's sister village of Twice Brewed
(both stand on the site of Hadrians Wall in the UK and the first has a National Park Visitor Centre in it.)

Waaia is pronounced WAY-eye and Wunghu is One-you.. they even call themselves the One Sheep town!

Both places are only tiny.. about 3-400 people and both are north of Shepparton, in central Victoria. I used to play for another small town, called Barooga, which is on the right (i.e. NSW side) of the Murray.
Cheers, ozzz

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I used to play for another small town, called Barooga, which is on the right (i.e. NSW side) of the Murray

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2. Jump Off Rock (do Not go there if you are depressed, OK?)

3. Sliding Rock

And the Devil Figures Big here in folklore (either fighting him, making a pact, or being scared of him) ssoooo, we've have these:

Devil's Courthouse, Devil's Head, Devil's Tramping Ground, and tons more.

We always have the Dismal Swamp (sounds wretched, very lovely, really!).

And up in Pisgah National Forest, they have the Pink Beds area.

And Transylvania County, NC, they can Not keep copies of the book Dracula at the library! Where else could you get Dracula stamped inside with "Transylvania County Public Library"??

Speaking of Drac, don't forget Bat Cave, NC.

Boy, do I love this state. It has a sense of humor!

Mt. Elizabeth Secondary School (MESS)

and

Scarlet Heights Institute of Technology (SH*T)

I swear they are both real...........

Just made life a little difficult for school "cheers"!

At this very moment, my daughter has a huge bright yellow "MESS" emblazoned on the backside of the new black/yellow sr. basketball tracksuit! And they're damned proud of it, too!

You sure it wasn't 'Shooter's Hill'? (wash your mouth out!)
(ahem)

There is a street in a far-away, long forgotten corner of Lincolnshire called 'Fanny Hands Lane'.....!

Make of it what you will?

Speaking as someone who is originally from an area quite close to Nether Wallop.........I fail to see what is so funny about these place names!!!!!!

wez