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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #675 on: June 15, 2020, 07:48:40 PM »
'Sinful Sailing'  O_O
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #676 on: June 15, 2020, 08:27:56 PM »
Those are very funny, Yastreb. Most groanworthy!
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #677 on: June 15, 2020, 09:03:41 PM »
Here are some weird thoroughfares.

Aerop Lane
Danger Close
Dontstandso Close
Elbow Bend
Endofthe Road
Filletsov Place
Function Alley
Getoutofmy Way
Havityour Way
Letsbe Avenue
Lois Lane
Lunar Crescent
Mindyour Manors
Mycat Mews
Myhappy Place
Rightupmy Street
Rightupyour Alley
Sofara Way
Takemy Place
Yourtoo Close
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #678 on: June 15, 2020, 09:23:25 PM »
There actually is a Lois Lane in Adelaide. And Penny Lanes in both Sydney and London.
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #679 on: June 15, 2020, 10:55:01 PM »
There are so many real street names that make you wonder what they were thinking, like Shades of Death Road, just a stone's throw from Cat Swamp Road, out in my old stomping grounds of rural NJ.
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #680 on: June 16, 2020, 12:13:14 AM »
We used to have a Shades of Death Track in East Gippsland, which was reasonable enough because it lead to the Shades of Death cavern, a geobleme cave which well deserves its name. I have been spelunking there several times, and the bone dump below the entrance is impressive, going right back to the era of the megafauna.
And the several Swamp Roads near here are so called because they lead to or through swamps. Dead Dog Road was so named by an early settler who found a dead dingo there......Australia has a lot of weird place names. Oh, and one of my sons used to have a house on Corkscrew Road, which well and truly lived up to the name - getting in and out on days of snow or heavy frost was a bit more of an adventure than I liked.
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #681 on: June 16, 2020, 05:20:17 AM »
That makes me consider placenames with onomatopoeic content...

Bangkok
Slapton Sands
Bong Bong
Woolloomooloo
Wollongong
Poperinghe
Middle Wallop
Bingley
Bangalore
Bangor (Australia, the US, and Wales)
Munchengladbach
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #682 on: June 16, 2020, 09:13:23 PM »
What pronouns do chocolate bars use?
Her/she.
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #683 on: June 17, 2020, 01:56:03 AM »
No jokes, place names:
NZ: Te Hihi (HeeHee) - also many names including the Maori words Kaka and Whaka.  Perfectly lovely words, but occasionally funny to English ears for their resemblence to off-colour words. (The Wh is often pronounced as an F, the 'a' is more of an 'ah' or an 'uh', so Whakapapa sounds a bit like incest.)
NJ: HoHoKus (matches Te Hihi), and my all-time favourite: Manunka Chunk.
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #684 on: June 17, 2020, 04:08:52 AM »
In Finnish, kakka = poo. So slightly amusing to me as well :)
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #685 on: June 17, 2020, 04:54:56 AM »
Quote from: Jitter on June 17, 2020, 04:08:52 AM
In Finnish, kakka = poo. So slightly amusing to me as well :)

In Portuguese, caca (that I believe sounds just like kakka) is one word for poo, so it's amusing for me too! :)
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #686 on: June 17, 2020, 07:14:55 AM »
French too, same spelling as in Portuguese.
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #687 on: June 17, 2020, 07:32:42 PM »
Odd place names bring back memories of a book called An Atlas of Fantasy, which included areas ranging from Middle-Earth to the Duchy of Strackenz (from Royal Flash), and a wargaming map drawn to have areas suitable for any conflict in any era. The editor made some comments on naming conventions for such maps and mentioned how many of them resort to punning names such as Rock Sound, Generation Gap, Cape Crusader, and Trafique Island. The writers of the board game Swords and Sorcery were of a similar mind, with terrain features such as the Nattily Woods and the Stream of Consciousness.

What others could there be...?

Aero Plains
Changethe Channel
Credibility Gap
Crimea River
Finger Point
Fitsov Peak
Floorboards Creek
Forward Pass
Handme Downs
Iknewyou Wood
Jet Stream
Mount Ofenus
Night Falls
Oldasthe Hills
Sonovay Beach
Texas Ranges
Thistooshall Pass
Wallof Sound
Whatsthe Point
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #688 on: June 17, 2020, 09:52:46 PM »
"Porpoise Spit" from Muriel's Wedding was an hilarious example!
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Re: Bad jokes thread
« Reply #689 on: June 24, 2020, 04:32:16 AM »
I can't believe that I forgot one of the worst place names ever: the Watsup Dock.

And I have to give this next one in context - from the old all-leather talking-type wireless Goon Show!

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Seagoon: Where?
Moriarty: Isle of Ewe.
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