Most bizarre town names for each state

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Sigmapolis

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I think about it every time I'm heading to Minnesota and pass the exit for Manly/Forest City

I annoy my wife by saying "MANLY FOREST CITY!" in the deepest voice I can. It has to be done though.

My friends and I, sometime late in high school or early in college, took a road trip to Minneapolis and stopped in Manly on the way back with some disposable cameras.

We took pictures of ourselves in front of anything that said MANLY on it.

I wonder what happened to those prints. It was great.
 

cyclones500

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My top 10 from that map
1. Handsome Eddy (New York)
2. Zap (N.D.)
3. Plenty Bears (S.D.)
4. Scratch Ankle (Alabama)
5. Toad Suck (Arkansas)
6. What Cheer (Iowa)
7. Waterproof (Louisiana)
8. Catfish Paradise (Arizona)
9. Mormon Bar (California)
10. Chicken Bristle (Illinois)

---> This would be an awesome lineup for a horse race.
 
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besserheimerphat

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I had a postcard from years ago that had all kinds of names on it, with two people on it & all kinds of question marks. The captain read something like "We're in Washington. We'd tell you where we are, but we can't pronounce it!".

People always seem to get the accent on the wrong syllable too, like "TACK-oh-mah" and "Yuh-KEE-muh" for Tacoma & Yakima...totally backwards!

When I first started working here and was dealing with names in Iowa, I struggled with alternative pronunciations like "Peeroo" and "NuhVAYduh". But I really butchered the heck out of pronouncing the tribal names here with "MAAA-ko-KEE-tuh" (Maquoketa). :)

I still can't figure out how to say Puyallup. I used to sit next to a guy who grew up there, and he said that's how he can tell whether or not someone is a native Western Washingtonian.
 

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Lost Nation is my favorite Iowa town name. Don't know why, just always liked it.
 

ImJustKCClone

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I still can't figure out how to say Puyallup. I used to sit next to a guy who grew up there, and he said that's how he can tell whether or not someone is a native Western Washingtonian.
My Texas fam call it POOH ee uh LOOP. I've always pronounced it Pew-al-up (al as in Albert), no real accent on any of the three syllables. Damn, that's hard to describe!

Edit - I wasn't "native". Lived in Bellevue from 5 to 11 years old, then again from 13 to 18 after a brief stint in Florida.
 

nfrine

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In addition to Toad Suck, Arkansas has Monkey Run, Geasy Corner, Booger Hollow and Turkey Stratch. Not to mention Gassville.
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I wonder how far the drive from Dickshooter to Slickpoo, Idaho is....
 

Sigmapolis

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This little corner of New Mexico has four good ones on top of each other. It might win some sort of combo award, if we were giving that one out...

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bsaltyman

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I'm pretty sure there is a Hell, Michigan. I would imagine that it "freezes over" during the winter.