No Snickering: That Road Sign Means Something Else

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13 Mar 2009, 2:17 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world ... ml?_r=3&em

LOL!

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13 Mar 2009, 2:38 pm

:rofl:

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13 Mar 2009, 2:44 pm

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13 Mar 2009, 3:29 pm

I was actually snickering throughout the whole article.

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13 Mar 2009, 3:38 pm

There is actually a town in France called "Montcul" (which pronounced in french , sounds as if you were saying "my ass", the t is silent btw).

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13 Mar 2009, 3:38 pm

think this is bad, i have seen a city or suburb of or near clinton nj called buttzville. along rt 31 right as it ends at rt 46.

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13 Mar 2009, 4:00 pm

A few months ago there was a thread about a town that was removing or changing offensive place names and road signs...Might have to do a little "necro-surfing " to find it...

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14 Mar 2009, 6:30 am

There's a road called High Back Side near where I live! :lol:

I live quite near Wetwang, LOL, I wanna go there! :lol:

LOL at 4 Corfe Close, but you'd have to have a really posh accent to pronounced "**** off" that way! :lol:

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14 Mar 2009, 2:23 pm

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LOL at 4 Corfe Close, but you'd have to have a really posh accent to pronounced "**** off" that way!

Oh... it took me several attempts to work that one out!

There is a funny named town quite near to Milton Keynes (although that name is so weird it makes me laugh!) It is a village called Willy. I've also heard of a town called Bell End! :lol:

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14 Mar 2009, 4:13 pm

Websites for people and businesses in Scunthorpe used to fall foul of filters and used to get blocked.

In Manchester, the gay village is centred around Canal Street, and some wag amended the sign to delete the initial letters, so it said " anal treet". :lol:

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14 Mar 2009, 4:17 pm

Then of course, there's the famous village in Austria who's sign keeps getting stolen by British and Yank tourists:

The sign below reminds people to obey the speed limits, but also adds further humor to the town's sign on account of the fact that it translates to "Please - not so fast!"

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26 Mar 2009, 11:13 pm

There are some funny town names in Pennsylvania, such as Beaver Falls, Intercourse, and Blue Ball.

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27 Mar 2009, 3:25 am

i have heard of a village called Lunt (or something similar) in the UK somewhere that was trying to bring about a name change because people were vandalising the entrance sign by changing the L to a C.

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01 Apr 2009, 10:15 pm

Anybody ever been to Dildo, Newfoundland?

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24 May 2009, 4:30 am

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell

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24 May 2009, 4:43 am

Skilpadde wrote:

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell

Here's the English version
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway

There's also towns called Hell in the US states of Arizona, California and Michigan, as well as one in Grand Cayman inthe Cayman Islands

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