Place names that sound fake

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• Imipolex G

  2018-01-17 04:30:35

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Fucking, Austria
• Heinzes

  2018-01-17 04:57:02

  extremely not so but maybe just a tad yes

  Weedsport, New York
• Salix Babylonika

  2018-01-17 05:31:27

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Moose Factory
• glennmagusharvey

  2018-01-17 05:40:57

  Imipolex G said:

  Fucking, Austria

  Hell, Michigan
  Fauquier County, Virginia
  Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
  
  The Hague, The Netherlands
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2018-01-17 05:41:19 edited 2018-01-17 05:45:49

  so this page
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Boring, Maryland	Named for a former postmaster David Boring, whose profession suited the family name.
  Boring, Oregon	Twinned with Dull, Scotland.
  Boring, Tennessee	Well-named: as of January 2018, the length of its Wikipedia entry is 1,528 characters (compared to 74,813 on this page).
• Tre

  2018-01-17 05:54:39

  
  

  Jane said:

  Moose Factory

  
  Moose Jaw, SK
• glennmagusharvey

  2018-01-17 05:55:20

  https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stupid+Lake/@55.6872358,-93.5049879,18993m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x527d4e580b7c7df9:0x727d5ccd3e112362!8m2!3d55.6622131!4d-93.4502976
  
  i don't think it's possible to drive here
  
• Bee

  2018-01-17 06:11:17

  
• glennmagusharvey

  2018-01-17 06:22:06

  hey hey hey
  
  remember that really crappy game?
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Name,_Colorado
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2018-01-17 06:30:43

  Honestly, sometimes you don't even have to have a particularly funny name for it to sound unrealistic.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cos_Cob,_Connecticut
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2018-01-17 06:39:59

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Lick,_North_Carolina
  
  a "lick" is an actual term for either a very small stream or a surficial mineral deposit that animals frequently make use of, though apparently Lizard Lick might not have been named for either of these reasons.
  
  but who cares; the rest of the article reads like How To Get Famous As A Small Town
  
• Anonus

  2018-01-17 08:20:49

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  glennmagusharvey said:

  hey hey hey
  
  remember that really crappy game?
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Name,_Colorado
  

  that's the Old West for you
• Princess Alice

  2018-01-17 11:39:47

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Wikipedia said:

  There are two exits along Interstate 70 in Colorado that are truly nameless: Exit 218 east of Loveland Pass, and Exit 354 west of Limon - in both these instances, advance signage is marked merely with an exit number and the distance to that exit.

  Wow, it's true.
  
  Exit 218
  
  Exit 354
  
  
• Klinotaxis

  2018-01-17 15:17:00

  kill living beings
  

  Jane said:

  Moose Factory

  wh-

  
  

  huh.
• sunn wolf

  2018-01-17 16:23:30

  Pease Pottage sounds like someone’s attempt at the most cutesy olde england place name possible but it is real
• vtk

  2018-01-17 18:04:18

  embrace the confusion
  

  Knockemstiff, Ohio
• Fossilmaiden

  2018-01-17 18:36:11

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  Sandy Island, New Caledonia
• Sredni Vashtar

  2018-01-17 19:46:34

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Small towns outside of State College, Pennsylvania that actually exist: Nowhere, Waddle.
• glennmagusharvey

  2018-01-17 21:31:19

  Sredni Vashtar said:

  Small towns outside of State College, Pennsylvania that actually exist: Nowhere, Waddle.

  also, State College, Pennsylvania.
  
• Bee

  2018-01-17 21:59:53 edited 2018-01-17 22:00:17

  
• Salix Babylonika

  2018-01-17 22:02:58

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Sredni Vashtar said:

  Small towns outside of State College, Pennsylvania that actually exist: Nowhere, Waddle.

  but how could you forget about the rest of the infamous PA towns like Intercourse, Bird-In-Hand, King of Prussia, Blue Ball, Burningwell, the twin towns of Effort and Results, and many more?
• Klinotaxis

  2018-01-17 22:05:45

  kill living beings
  

  long running feud with In-The-Bush?
• glennmagusharvey

  2018-01-17 22:29:09 edited 2018-01-17 22:29:34

  oh right, King of Prussia
  
  meanwhile, Prince William County, VA and Prince George's County, MD.
  
  also, Fresh Kills, NY.  as well as Flushing, NY.
  
• Princess Alice

  2018-01-17 22:29:32 edited 2018-01-17 22:29:49

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  There's also Mars, Pennsylvania, which isn't that funny until you see a traffic sign that's just like

  
  

  ← Mars 4
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2018-01-17 22:29:51

  Central Avenue said:

  There's also Mars, Pennsylvania, which isn't that funny until you see a traffic sign that's just like

  
  

  ← Mars 4
  

  That's nothing; we've got Jupiter.
  
• Odradek

  2018-01-18 01:05:37

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Central Avenue said:

  There's also Mars, Pennsylvania, which isn't that funny until you see a traffic sign that's just like

  
  

  ← Mars 4
  

  My dad used to live there
• vtk

  2018-01-18 01:11:01

  embrace the confusion
  

  Neptune, Ohio
• glennmagusharvey

  2018-01-18 07:07:40 edited 2018-01-18 07:08:35

  vtk said:

  Neptune, Ohio

  dang, that's far out
  
  though Mississippi and West Virginia go even farther; they go all the way to last one, Pluto
  
• Princess Alice

  2018-01-18 18:43:00

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I would be interested to know if there are any cities named after Solar System bodies beyond Pluto.

  
  

  Probably not, I guess, but it would be cool if there were.
• Fossilmaiden

  2018-01-18 18:45:05

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres,_California
• Princess Alice

  2018-01-18 18:47:19

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I mean, I guess it's cool that there's another city that shares its name with a dwarf planet, but by "beyond Pluto" I mean farther from the Sun. :P
• Imipolex G

  2018-01-18 18:47:48

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Mars, PA seems less weird when you see signs for it all the time.
  
  My favorite weird Pennsylvania name is Lititz
  
• Fossilmaiden

  2018-01-18 18:51:09

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  Central Avenue said:

  I mean, I guess it's cool that there's another city that shares its name with a dwarf planet, but by "beyond Pluto" I mean farther from the Sun. :P

  That wasn't at you. :|
• Bee

  2018-01-18 19:16:10

  The obligatory Welsh "I slammed my face on the keyboard centuries before keyboards were invented":

  
  

  
  
• Klinotaxis

  2018-01-18 19:17:31

  kill living beings
  

  that map is pretty good
• Odradek

  2018-01-18 19:20:09

  My dreams exceed my real life

  A few months ago I stood in line behind a big bearded guy with "Legal Martian Aliens For Trump" t-shirt, and I'm still not over it
• Princess Alice

  2018-01-18 19:23:07

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Klinotaxis said:

  that map is pretty good

  I like how the name is so long that it stretches into mainland Europe
• Salix Babylonika

  2018-01-18 19:23:34

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  I'm not sure I could tell you a single thing about that man's political opinions.
• Odradek

  2018-01-18 19:24:46

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Jane said:

  I'm not sure I could tell you a single thing about that man's political opinions.

  He's from Mars, so almost certainly pro-Trump
• Calica

  2018-01-18 20:43:31

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  Bee said:

  

  nice
  
• lee4hmz

  2018-01-20 06:11:30

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  Weed, CA