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Woodcock St. and Woodburn Ave.

Intercourse, PA

gaylord street, denver. my friends get excited if they find a place to live on gaylord. :)

My favorite unintentionally funny name is the one proudly blazoned in tres elegant letters on a cheesy condo a mile north of my place: "The ParVenu".
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Adj. 1. parvenue - characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position

nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart
pretentious - making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"

I guess nobody bothered looking up the word before they called the signmaker.

ohhhh...that's a good one magnaverde!

There's a joke here in Chicago that goes like this:

Q: What are the three street names that rhyme with a part of the female anatomy?

A: Melvina, Paulina and Lunt

That always gets a chuckle from those who have never heard it.

Some years ago I was looking for a building lot in East Hampton. The realtor showed me a spot on Edwards Hole Road. My name is Ed. Needless to say, I passed on that...

Intercourse, PA is ironically down the road a bit from Blue Balls, PA.

Amish country go figure.

How could "Butt Hole Road" been named unintentionally?

In my Upper Manhattan New York City neighborhood Inwood we have an intersection of streets called Seaman and Cumming. A few blocks south is Dyckman.

You can see a photo here: http://flickr.com/photos/jag9889/2113407093/

Oh the humanity.

in wilmington, NC we have Hooker Rd and it's been stolen a few times so they had to hang it up high this time

Jackson Hole, Wy.......always makes me laugh
French Lick, Indiana.....always makes me chuckle
Floyds Knobs, Indiana.....is just plain silly

Dildo, NFLD, Canada

Heh heh, he said butt...

NightVale - in England we don't really use the word 'Butt' as much as you do in America, so if the street was named say 20/30 years ago it wouldn't have had any humourous connotations. It was probably named after the original meaning

butt
1   /bʌt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [buht] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. the end or extremity of anything, esp. the thicker, larger, or blunt end considered as a bottom, base, support, or handle, as of a log, fishing rod, or pistol.


In St Andrew's there's a little lane called 'butt's wynd' which always makes me giggle.

Beaver Dick Park is outside Rexburg, Idaho.

http://rexcc.com/thingstodo/parkstrails/parkscounty/beaverdickpark.html

The link for Beaver Dick Park. I guess back in the day beavers and dicks were animals and guys named Richard.

Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. Yeehaw!

The following are names of Italian villages: Sesso (Sex), Paperino (Donald Duck), Girasole (sunflower), Settebagni (Seven bathrooms) and Bastardo (no translation needed). :-)

there was an article a few months ago talking about the names of people and places that couldn't be used in email addresses because they contained unfortunate nouns. I think penistone was one of them...

I have a picture of the Pussy Pause Motel, taken during a trip through the Maritimes.

The sign for Pussy Lane in my town keeps getting stolen.

There's a (in)famous bar and hotel halfway between Tok and Fairbanks in Alaska called Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn.

In 1985, residents of Gayside, Newfoundland, voted to change the name of their town to Baytona. One man, interviewed on television, said, "When you tells people you come from Gayside, they looks at ya right queer!".

Climax, MI... located on route I-69

nope, not kidding.

Very funny post. I can't believe that intersection in NYC!

There's always this eatery in Scottsdale, Arizona: The Pink Taco

Well, it's not naughty, but we have "Slaughter Lane" here in austin.

I was trying to find a funny name in Brooklyn, NY... but once you know the history of Flatbush, it's hard to imagine it being anything other than what it is...

I did find however, Duryea Pl...

In France we have a whole city called Condom.


http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condom_(Gers)

My favorite is a packie in Salem, MA: Bunghole Liquors.

Hah! I used to live on Lunt Ave in Chicago, and it took REAL willpower to not say "rhymes with... "

There's a Tapeworm Road in Bucks County, PA--not naughty, but ick!

Hah! I used to live on Lunt Ave in Chicago, and it to REAL willpower not to say "rhymes with... "

There's a Tapeworm Road in Bucks County, PA. Not naughty, but ick!

We have a Beaver Ruin in Atlanta. And it's not a street name, but my godfather's name is Dick Fukhauser. Seriously.

There's a "Heil Avenue" in Orange County...not naughty per se, but it leads to a lot of tasteless Nazi jokes.

There's a village in Austria that has had its signs stolen countless times...the village's name is pronounced like "Foo - king" but it's spelled in a matter that's quite amusing to English-speaking travelers.

There's a "Good Luck Road" in Georgetown, Maryland.

We have friends who lived on Hooker Ln in Greenwich CT - that is until a bunch of residents petitioned to have the name changed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/nyregion/21greenwich.html

I have to admit that it was hard for me not to giggle the first time I drove through maidenhead--a town in england outside of london.

Sore Finger Road in Arizona.

I laugh everytime I pass it.

Dicks Street in West Hollywood may rival Pussy Lane that JoanA mentioned above for frequently stolen street sign.

In Culver City, CA on Overland Blvd., there is an old school apartment building that has written in a retro 50's type-font "The Crapi." It is fun to watch people do a double take while sitting in traffic.

i grew up on gaymont road, which i think is a stretch to find funny. i did spend a lot of time saying "it means happy hill you idiot" though.

There are many restaurants on the lower East Coast (Virginia, North Carolina) called Dirty Dick's.... Health Board violation much?

Big Beaver Rd. Exit 69
off of I-75 in Auburn Hills, Michigan

I'm not kidding

Knob Lick, KY

Outside Austin:
Nutty brown road

I'm still trying to figure out how old lemonbugg is... what's the humor in Gaylord, again? Do enlighten me.

The conservative christian grade school I went to was on Hussey Rd. It was awesome.

Yeah, cause the word 'gay' is so funny. Almost as funny as Straight Rd. Thank you, TheGoodBiGirl, for maybe the first appropriate response.

I suddenly have the urge to travel.

Coxsackie, New York

In southern Germany there is a town called Tuntenhausen, what translates to "Home of Drag Queens". In this town a politically influential, very traditional, conservative club of catholic males meets...

I used to live in Geneva Switzerland in a cutely named street 'chemin de la blonde', road of the blond female. It was a great conversation starter every time i mentioned my address.

Oh, Australia has the BEST ones of these! First, there's the ones that are just plain fun to say, like Woolloomooloo, Ulla Dulla, Woy Woy (question: why is it acceptable to shorten Wagga Wagga to just Wagga, but unacceptable to shorten Woy Woy to just Woy?), Wangaratta and the like, and then there's the morbid ones (like Cape Grim and Suicide Bay, both in Tasmania), but rude names? Oh yeah. We have them.

Just a short list... Mount Buggery. Middle Intercourse Island. Black Charlie's Opening. Bone's Knob. Koolyanobbing. Iron Knob. Rooty Hill. Balls Head (including a PROMINANT sign at the station, saying, "This way to beautiful Balls Head!"). Cockburn (although it's actually pronounced Co-burn). Wattanobbi. Dunedoo, pronounced Dunnydoo (a dunny is an outdoor toilet). Titwobble Lane. Bobbin Head. And my favourite, Tittybong.

And also a name, but when my great-great-grandfather moved from Lithuania to England, he changed his name from Chaim ben-Porat to... Hyman Portrate. Eww.

not nasty, but funny...
i grew up on hemp road in fredericksburg, va and my parents still live there. it's a great little dead in road, but they never have a road sign.

I grew up in Dix Hills. Strangely enough, no one EVER made fun of the name.....

This is not a street name, but a few years ago I bought a container of ice cream. This particular brand (Blue Bell) comes in a variety of colored rims - brown, gold, etc. for each assortment. What I got had a brown top, so on my receipt, it listed that I bought a "brown rim ass".

There's a town in Virginia called Dyke.

No joke ;)

http://virginia.hometownlocator.com/va/greene/dyke.cfm

There's also a town in VA called Ruckersville (ryhmes with...)

but I don't think that's nearly as funny as Dyke. lol