No Snickering–That Road Sign Means Something Else
This NYT article had me laughing out loud–being a sucker for the unintentional inappropriate joke, I was loving every minute of it. The best part, though, was this map of the place-names. Now there’s a map.
“Sniggering at double entendres is a loved and time-honored tradition in this country,” Carol Midgley wrote in The Times of London. Ed Hurst, a co-author, with Rob Bailey, of “Rude Britain” and “Rude UK,” which list arguably offensive place names — some so arguably offensive that, unfortunately, they cannot be printed here — said that many such communities were established hundreds of years ago and that their names were not rude at the time.
“Place names and street names are full of history and culture, and it’s only because language has evolved over the centuries that they’ve wound up sounding rude,” Mr. Hurst said in an interview.
Hardly the Last Word 
Funny. 🙂
Intercourse, PA.
Blueball, AL.
Big Bone Lick State Park, KY.
We’ve got a few, too.
Intercourse, Pa is in Lancaster County which is Amish area. For some reason there are a bunch of weird-named towns there. Blue Ball, Pa and Bird-in-Hand, Pa are just a few other examples.