Funny People and Place Names.

[Lurkerlurker2019]

That's it, shut the thread. Nothing will ever top BJ Cobbledick.
Bet she couldn't wait to get married lmao.

Honestly the first time I saw it, I laughed so hard I stopped breathing. Lives rent free in my head.

 

[AllSeeingEye123]

Penistone
Upperthong
Netherthong
Cumberworth

 

[People-huv-tae-know]

I met a family recently with the surname Furby, that tickled me!

 

[MaineCoonMama]

Amazing.

 

[People-huv-tae-know]

Amazing.
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There is a baked bean blogger in Southend with bleep for a name

 

[FoksiOska]

Penistone
Upperthong
Netherthong
Cumberworth

Ha....I live in one of those places

 

[AllSeeingEye123]

Ha....I live in one of those places

Ohhh so you could have had penis in Penistone, cum in Cumberworth or worn a thong in Netherthong or Upperthong. Im gonna have to go sleep now before I dream about it

 

[Candytuft]

There was a car dealership owned by J Eric Hunt in Huddersfield.
I knew people called -
Andy Mann
Betty Battye
Nancy Boyes

 

[jenh526]

My mom was a nurse in the 50’s in Knoxville, TN. She would sometimes get patients from rural Appalachia. She remembers one patient who gave birth to twins. She named them Opal Pearl and Ogle Earl.

 

[Melian]

There was a place in Austria called bleeping. It's now been changed to Fugging according to Google

 

[Rita Chevrolet]

There was a place in Austria called bleeping. It's now been changed to Fugging according to Google

Gotta love Austria. Went there on a school trip eons ago but what caused the biggest uproar and a mass invasion of the resort gift shop was finding sew-on badges with "Gute Farht" on them. It means safe journey or something similar but to 13year olds it was brilliant

 

[Melian]

I used to know a lady with the surname Fuchs. (She was Swiss / Austrian) She did get asked how you pronounce it. Fooks she said.

 

[Codiaeum]

I used to know a lady with the surname Fuchs. (She was Swiss / Austrian) She did get asked how you pronounce it. Fooks she said.

It means "fox" in German and yea, it's pronounced "fooks" never thought how funny that must sound for non-German speakers. Admittedly though, even German speakers laugh about bleeping/Fugging and many other place names. near me is a town called Titz.

 

[Rita Chevrolet]

I used to work for a company that imported clothing etc from China.
Twice a year we would welcome our Chinese guests bringing over dozens of sample garments to show the new range.
Head of the delagation stands up holding a pink dress saying
"This a very popular colour for spring - it called duck-sha!" The room erupted in sniggers to which he repeated it again because he did not realise its not pronounced like that! Afterwards when explained to him he conceded it was very funny and would share with his mates back at the factory in China!

 

[EllenDeGenerate]

Curly Hole. I kid you not.

 

[RocksOff]

A tiny village in West Somerset has
Clitsome View
It makes me laugh, every time!

 

[L3moning]

Curly Hole. I kid you not.

I thought I'd mentioned him before, but this reminded me of former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle:

Dick Trickle - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia also informs me there was a baseball player called Dick Ricketts, which isn't any better.

Another one which comes to mind is that there is a twitch streamer who's username is Scrapie98¹, which is also the name of a rather grim disease that sheep get (along the lines of BSE). His only comment on it was "I should have googled the meaning of the word the random word generator suggested when I made the username".

¹Which tbf he pronounces like "Scrappy".

 

[HelloStereo]

There's a place in Lithuania called Minge.

 

[Lurkerlurker2019]

There's a place in Lithuania called Minge.

I need to visit it immediately

 

[Melian]

There's a place in Lithuania called Minge.

I'm currently in Lithuania. I'm disappointed that we're too far from there!