Fictional Place Names

[The Magic Pudding..]

I'm watching Muriel's Wedding.
I'm voting for Porpoise Spit as best ever fictional place name.

[billy rubin]

my vote goes to Snogging-on-the-green

[Asmodean]

I don't actually remember too many funny/silly-named fictional places, but there was a real town called Fucking, the name of which they most unfortunately censored with a double g in stead.

[Icarus]

Florida has a place with a well established history, it is called Yeehaw Junction. We have some other real places with real names such as Fort Lonesome, Appalachicola, Frostproof, and Haulover.

[Bluenose]

I can assure readers here that the following are actual, non-fictional place names:
Nar Nar Goon
Wollondilly
Woori Yallock

[Tank]

There was a place near where I grew up called Pratts Bottom

[Asmodean]

Scandic Hell has one of the best hotel breakfast buffets in Norway - at least they had when I was there for a company gathering. Also, it was in Hell.

We also have a place called Arse in Norwegian (Ræva - it's in Trøndelag county. Literally does mean "arse," as opposed to "rump" or "backside") and a few more, which I just don't remember on the spot.

[Tom62]

In the Netherlands we've got a village called Sexbierum. The name can be read in Dutch as sex, beer, rum, and therefore, the place name signs get occasionally stolen.

[billy rubin]

i have actually driven through the town of toadsuck, arkansas.

[Asmodean]

The Asmo can't help but wonder... To suck on a toad, or to get sucked by one, and why is one of these things far less disturbing?

[billy rubin]

there is a small volcanic cinder cone in northern arizona called SP Crater on the USGS topographic maps, similar to the british ordnance surveys. its an almost perfect pot-shaped structure that gave rise to its real name

Shit Pot Crater

which the USGS will not print on their maps

a pitcher:



if you climb into it its full of chunks of mafic horneblendes and amphiboles and olivines, honest injun pieces of the earths mantle, dark black and so heavy when you pick em up you think theyre made of metal.

[The Magic Pudding..]

"A Change of Air

Now, a man in Oodnadatta
He grew fat, and he grew fatter,
Though he hardly had a thing to eat for dinner;
While a man in Booboorowie
Often sat and wondered how he
Could prevent himself from growing any thinner.

So the man from Oodnadatta
He came down to Booboorowie,
Where he rapidly grew flatter;
And the folk will tell you how he
Urged the man from Booboorowie
To go up to Oodnadatta -
Where he lived awhile, and now he
Is considerably fatter."

[Tank]

there is a small volcanic cinder cone in northern arizona called SP Crater on the USGS topographic maps, similar to the british ordnance surveys. its an almost perfect pot-shaped structure that gave rise to its real name

Shit Pot Crater

which the USGS will not print on their maps

a pitcher:



if you climb into it its full of chunks of mafic horneblendes and amphiboles and olivines, honest injun pieces of the earths mantle, dark black and so heavy when you pick em up you think theyre made of metal.

Is the black material in the background related to the crater?

[Asmodean]

It looks like the crater edge is lower on that side, so kinda' makes me suspect a connection. If I was a liquid-like substance, I'd flow out from such a low spot.

That, though, is probably way simplistic a volcanological analysis, and thereby dead wrong besides.

[billy rubin]

basalt lava. all the volcanos around there come from low silica low water magmas, so they poop out ashes and then trickle highly undramatic flows over everything.

its the high silica high steam volcanoes like mt st helens that blow out catastrophic explosipns.

it all depends on what melted to make the magma. ocean floor gabbros make easygoing basalt lavas. continental granites make spectacular rhyolites.

arizona is covered in cinder cones. most of the recent flows are just like the one in the picture-- first you had a cinder cone of ash, then the basalt rose up, lifted the cone, and trickled out the side.

the stuff is recent, often only a thousand years

that cone looks higher than i remember, but i was younger then