Strange & Silly Place Names in U.S. and Canada 

Talking about intercourses Pa?

Mianus Connecticut?

I wasn't going to click on this video because I had heard it all before, but then I saw that the thumbnail had new interesting places.

How dare he not even mention Truth or Consequences (T or C) New Mexico. I’m so pissed.

@@somaahismail2698 there was a bakery in Intercourse, and their slogan was "I got my sticky buns from Intercourse" (available on T shirts back then). Sadly, it closed over 10 years ago.

That's so funny, thank you for making my day. I know it's silly but I am laughing so hard I am crying.

In northern Iowa they have Fertile and Manly.

Surprised I never saw that on Leno!

This needs to be on Weekend Update.

I think I had mentioned Big Ugly WV to this guy before. I was once driving listening to a radio talk show when the host said "We have a Big Ugly woman on line one" about that time he realized what he said and cracked up as did I and probably a lot of other listeners.

That's one I did not know. And it's a pretty cool word

That’s my theory about how they make medicine names

@@GeographyKing Not far too far from Ixonia, there's Vinnie Ha Ha. I have no idea how its name came about, but the Canadian town you mentioned reminded me of it.

I always heard that's what they named Canada. "C-eh?-N-eh?-D-eh?"

@@snoopy1837 EXACTLY

I feel bad for the people and cultures that used that symbol for centuries which will now be forever marred by the Nazis.

Or asbestos Quebec, Shame lol

you'd think they would've changed the name tbh

Asbestos changed their name to Val-des-Sources in December 2020. It means "Valley of the Springs". Much better, I think.

@@UserName-ts3sp The Government wanted to change the name of Swastika during WWII, but the residents fought it. As is, the Government was successful in getting some other places changed. Kitchener was originally known as Berlin.

That first ones a bit ironic

Newfoundland Labrador have the best odd names. There are several more tickles I believe, I understood it to be a nautical term for a small cove.

Is that where No Name Steaks come from?

Hah, there's a sign on the interstate for no name

There's a No Road in Jacksonville, Florida.

That would be very cool!

👍🏼 Had forgotten about that one! Wish we could have done this on 12/21/21! 😅😉✌🏼

Jim J, That is an excellent palindrome. a man a plan a canal panama.

RADAR........they got you coming and going!

I've been through that little town. It's been many years for me now. I live in Fresno California. I love seeing the sights in my home state.

Almost as bad as Frankfort, Indiana where the high school mascot is the hot dogs.

🖐🏼I'm a native of Newport News VA. My Granddaddy was very active in the community as well as being a firefighter. He told me that it originated as the place where Captain Christopher Newport delivered news of boats bringing replenishments and supplies after The Starving Time - winter of 1609 - 10. There is documentation that shows the original name as Newport's News. It's one theory. It is the location of Cristopher Newport University, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock, and the coal terminal at the end of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.

Mobile, Alabama is from the Mobilian Tribe of the Choctaw Indians. It was coined by some of the early French and Spanish settlers of the Gulf region near Mobile bay. Unknown but most historians believe it’s was originally Mabilla or Mauvilla.

@@JayBagwell Thanks for that piece of history. With a name like Mobile you'd think it got its name from being a transportation hub.

I remember thinking Newport News was an error on google maps when I first came across it.

Chicago means the place of the smelly onions or something like that

That makes sense as Chillicothe is about 40 miles straight south of Columbus, dead in the middle of Ross county along the Scioto river ( Which also runs through the middle of Scioto county. Just to the north of Chillicothe off of state route 23 (Which runs through Columbus through Chillicothe, clear to Portsmouth.) is a group of Indian Mounds. So the Native American influence is obvious. Incidentally, the mounds are not far from Adena, the home of Thomas Worthington, where he looked north over his property and saw the valley that became the artwork on the seal of the state of Ohio.

Happy Valley-Goose Bay

I was born in Conception Bay in Newfoundland lol There's also a Placentia in Newfoundland, similar to California.

Ferryland will always by dear to my heart

there is also Conception Bay South

@@butler-macdonald8351 Placentia in Newfoundland is old enough to have been named after the Palace of Placentia, known later on as Greenwich Palace in England.

I went to school in Alva. I remember meeting people from Slap- out.

I have there. I lived in Alva Ok.

@@jasonjohnson4028 Did you go to Northwestern Oklahoma State?

The first settlers obviously came from Slapout Alabama.

Thank you!

Lol! I immediately thought of that town too. We also have Moscow in western Kansas. I think that's west of Dodge City.

We used to travel by Hurricane) Pronounced Hurr uh Kin)by the locals). When we went through Charleston to take my sister to college in Grayson (Eastern) Kentucky.

Even sing about the Muscle Shoals Swampers in Sweet Home Alabama!

I went to school in Jim Thorpe. The locals hate when you call it Mauch Chunk, it's Native American for Big Rock. Some people will say otherwise, but that's what it really means.

Hello Kansas!

I guess that ghost town in Saskatchewan wasn’t a success.

There's a town in southeast Kansas named Gas.

Yep, I always thought Moose Jaw was funny and Pigeon Forge is my favorite place to vacation :)

I always liked Moose Factory, Ontario. Wish I get the chance to visit some day.

I listened to the comedians Bob and Ray on WOR-AM radio out out NYC back in the mid-1970s.... they had a tape they would play of a sports announcer (who seemed to be somewhat tipsy) announcing the baseball scores from the "Moose Jaw League." Years later, as part of a cross-country trip I aimed to drive to Moose Jaw from Vermont. When I got to the border, I was asked by the guards why I was coming into Canada. I told them the story about hearing about Moose Jaw on the radio and how I've wanted to go there ever since. After they pondered my information for a few minutes, they let me cross. But I never made it--after camping in Yellow Grass, SK, a huge thunderstorm sprung up in front of me on Rte. 39 and I had to turn around and high-tail it out of there before it caught up to me!

A lot of backcountry flying takes place there too

What a great name

If you knew Frank Church, you'd know placing his name on "The river of no return" was appropriate

In California there's a Salsipuedes Creek - Spanish for "Get out if you can."

Apparently, according to my uncle, there are some pretty knarly rapids along that section of the Salmon. One aspect in particular that makes rafting along this stretch potentially dangerous is due to it's geographical remoteness. With virtually no basic cellphone service in the vast majority of the region and the fact that you might be 60 miles or more from the nearest habitation if you're trip turns ugly you're probably going to be in for a tough time. My uncle had a story from his one excursion rafting in this area about a fellow rafter from another party who had run into misfortune on the river, who had gotten himself critically injured when his raft hit a snag and actually died as a result of before help could arrive. According to my uncle, his group, upon investigation, had found some of the lost supplies that fell out of the deceased man's raft including a bottle of rum. My uncle's party then romantically dubbed the newly salvaged bottle the "Dead Man's Rum" and that night it was put on display in a prominent position in the camp they had set up. Although my uncle and his companions have been notorious and vigorous partiers during (probably) all of their decades of rafting excursions, that night nobody in the group decided to imbibe of the glass of spirits salvaged from the scattered debris that the previous ill-fated explorers had left behind. Of course, knowing my uncle and how many of his type operate, the story could be an embellishment...

There is the town of Dildo in Newfoundland and Labrador as well

@@chairmanlmao4482 Dildo (Newfoundland) is pretty Gay (Michigan). If one can’t have Intercourse (Pennsylvania), then Dildo (Newfoundland) can be an alternative. But, this lust of sinful behavior will send one to Hell (Michigan). It won’t be Boring (Oregon) like purgatory. That’s the Truth & Consequences (New Mexico). However, a Liberal (Kansas) would disagree with this.

@@jag92949 why (AZ)? or maybe the question is, whynot? (NC, MS)

Moosic PA is just a Suburb of Scranton, it's where they film that awful show called the office. I live about an hour from there.

@@Pablo_Gardens If all goes wonky, you will have a Newborn (GA)

hahaha . . . awesome!

this is two funny! thank you

Lost Nation is the hometown of Jim McAndrew, a pitcher for the 1969 World Champion New York Mets.

I live right outside of gun barrel City there's another town close to here called tool originally it was called hogs fork

We have Africa just north of Columbus, Ohio!

It was actually two different towns before they incorporated as a single city. I think that the northern part of the city was the town “Soddy” and the southern part of the city was the town “Daisy”, but that’s conjecture based on where the Soddy and Daisy Elementary schools are located.

@@TNBuckeye1617 that's. cool, I like learning stuff like that. It just doesn't roll off the tongue very well so its funny to someone not accustomed to it. In a few years I will get accustomed to it.

Thank you!

Same here except I live in Bakewell with a soddy daisy address. The most interesting thing about soddy daisy to me is that one end of town is commonly referred to as soddy and the other end is known as daisy. Even the elementary schools are named soddy elementary and daisy elementary.

I always find it funny how people ask if you’re from Soddy or Daisy.

In the west part of the state is Frog Jump

@@83Nipper i went to Daisy Elem. and Soddy Daisy High School and Hixson Jr High.

Pennsylvania has some really funny names. What makes them even funnier is the demographic that lives in them. They just don't seem to go together!

Thank you and Welcome to the channel!

Did you watch his intro? EVERYBODY who does lists like these knows about and covers your town.

There is a similar joke involving 4 towns in northern Minnesota. “If you’re taking EMILY to an OUTING, you’ll get to AITKIN before you get to REMER.”

Thank you!

If I remember right, Bob Barker was the host

@@danielmoore7332 Yeah, but the town was named for the radio show.

I've had it for about 30 years and it was super scratched when I got it. Whoever had it originally jumped the needle all over the place on Side B.

there's also a Ding Dong TX

In Ohio, we have Upper Sandusky, which is about 40 miles south of Sandusky.

Also Prosper, Ponder, Drop, Stony, Krum, Frognot, Dimebox, Notrees, and Telephone.

Don't forget Old Dime Box, Texas. Just a few miles from Dime Box.

Whenever I post on Facebook from there, the app adds the location as sugartit.

The name comes from the old poor south, where in lieu of candy they couldn't afford, Mom's put some sugar on a piece of cloth gathering it together and tying it shut for their kid's to sick on.There is (or rather was) a Sugar Tit, SC located west of Duncan. Till the 90's it was mostly just the name of the hardware store on the highway, but back when the area had a general store that handled mail for the Post Office, it was the official name of the community.

I here the people there suck.

Thanks, that was bugging the crap outta me cause I couldn't see it clearly enough to tell who it was.

@@paulyeazel4668 And ya know, I find this to be one of the most entertaining channels on RU-vid. Always something to 😃jar yer brain into thinking!

Lizard Lick NC

Hell, MI

Ink, Arkansas -- the instructions on the form said write in ink

That goes along with Boring, OR and its sister city, Dull, Scotland.

I tried to avoid the ones that might be vulgar or sexual, but yes Dildo is a classic.

I figured it was skipped because it is on just about every "Funny Place Name" list there is, and I appreciated that it was skipped for a change. And I drove past/through St Louis de Ha!-Ha! many times, and always found it a funny name. Glad to see it called out here and so high on the Canadian side of the list.

They changed the name in 2021.

@@jag92949 That's fuggin stupid.

Not sure about how many silly names there are in western Canada. Many towns in western Canada are named after explorers or indians.

@@Peglegkickboxer Medicine Hat? Flin Flon, Moose Jaw? Those are not weird names? They don't seem that way to Canadians....but I know people outside of Canada find them weird and amusing

@@marklittle8805 I can seen flin Flon since it's named after a comic book character from like 100 years ago but medicine hat and moose jaw are translated indian names. I guess from an outsider with no context it makes sense ( like Red Deer, Yellowknife, Whitehorse, etc).

@@PeglegkickboxerNative name or not they are unusual names. And neither is just some little crossroads village or outport. Both are decent sized towns. Most of the wacky names are a lot smaller

@@marklittle8805 I think maybe it's because the towns I mentioned are a national and cultural thing that's consistent across the country. Most cities in Canada are just named after an explorer, an Indian term, or a rename of a European city. A lot of the names of towns in America mentioned in the video seem out of place and random. Just my perspective as a Canadian.

at 7:32 if you look at the far bottom left you'll see a town called "Fancy Farms" Kentucky

In French, it simply means "big head", which is still pretty odd.

I think that was Don Harmon from Fox 4. I remember watching that on Fox 4 News at the time. I wish Harmon was still with us. His passing hit much of us hard in the KC metro.

...the best fudge comes from Uranus. (No kidding)

Reminds me of Lizard Head Pass In Colorado!

Possum Trot is pretty common. Possum Trot is a community near Steele MO.

Ah! Thanks for answering my question! 👍