Can you believe the sign? It directs you to an actual city in Newfoundland. And to think that just the other day this beggar on the street here in Seattle hit me with: "Spare change for a dildo?" Of course I gave her money. Booze. no. Dildo. Always.
Now seriously, you guys HAVE GOT to check out the book From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame. I saw it first on BookForum, and there are so many cities with great names. In summary, I would rather not go to Shit House Mountains, Arizona. But I could see myself living in Fucking, Austria. I kid you not:
"...the residents of Fucking, Austria, who are indirectly responsible for one of the greatest newspaper headlines ever, from the Irish Sunday Tribune: FUCKING VILLAGERS VOTE AGAINST NAME CHANGE." BookForum April/May 2006, page 5.
Additional crazy names here.
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