Snappertuna!

[woodgie2]

...is apparently the name of a town on the Finnish coast, about 80 Km west of Helsinki. It's a predominantly Swedish speaking area and it's a Swedish name.

Now, as an English speaker I find that name amusing. I mean... Snapper Tuna? It's funny!

I got to thinking (something Lit keeps doing to me, dammit) and wondered how many place names out there are amusing to other Litsters.

So go on, hit me with your silliest (real) place names. My laughter glands can take it!

 

[lobito]

Beaver Creek, AZ... "The best fishing spot in the west", at least that's what their brochure says.

 

[binkley]

So go on, hit me with your silliest (real) place names. My laughter glands can take it!

I grew up in Three Rivers, TX, 10 mi. N of George West, TX.

We were about 45 mi. W of Beeville, where, as my college paper put it:

Bush hunts quail; Quayle hunts bush

(This was around the time of the cupie doll incident, and Bush had going quail-hunting near Beeville.)

 

[cutie pie]

Local town names in PA:

Intercourse (really)
Bird-in-Hand
Blue Ball

 

[woodgie2]

Beaver Creek, AZ... "The best fishing spot in the west", at least that's what their brochure says.

I wanna play THERE!

 

[woodgie2]

Local town names in PA:

Intercourse (really)

AND there!

 

[Ginny]

lol SnapperTuna....yikes if that was a fem lit poster's name.....

 

[woodgie2]

lol SnapperTuna....yikes if that was a fem lit poster's name.....

*lol*

That went through my mind too. Another reason I laughed like a fool.

 

[sabbathstorm]

Dildo, Newfoundland You can even get Captain Dildo shirts.

 

[HeavyStick]

Snappertuna...... reminds me of a G/F I broke up with

 

[woodgie2]

Dildo, Newfoundland You can even get Captain Dildo shirts.

Again, Sab, you prove you know just what I want to hear.

Thanks



*LOL*

 

[woodgie2]

Any non-English speakers out there think English names of towns are funny because they're a pun in your native language?

I think that'd be doubly funny, or is my mind being silly again?