Lowsky Posted January 4, 2006 Posted January 4, 2006 Names like Sharptown, York, Hampden, need not apply How about Op Alabama or Uvilla Wv. Or my fav. Truth or Concequences NM. Picture must be taken in front of Post Office clearly showing town name. Your face or GPS in picture to verify.
+ChapterhouseInc Posted January 4, 2006 Posted January 4, 2006 hope you get it.....maybe i can submit a few.
+borospeti Posted January 4, 2006 Posted January 4, 2006 How would you define 'unique' or 'strange'? It may be hard to draw a line, some people may find a town name strange while it's perfectly normal for others. Peter PS: I guess these would be classified as strange by many: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/f***ing%2C_Austria and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C_Norway
+ha'oqev Posted January 4, 2006 Posted January 4, 2006 This sounds like an interesting and fun topic. I hope it goes through. The criteria for determining "strange" will need to be made more clear. At the moment I'm not sure how you would do that. If "unique" is really what you meant, an unabridged gazateer can be used to determine if it is indeed.
+Black Dog Trackers Posted January 4, 2006 Posted January 4, 2006 (edited) You'll never be able to successfully define "unique" or "strange" well enough to have everyone understand and agree in any given contingency. For instance, a town named "Map" or "Grane" would be unique, and so what, but it would not be strange at all to those people who lived there or who had relatives there, etc. This is not to say that such a category couldn't exist or would not be fun. However, as a manager of a waymark category, I can predict that someone will take the trouble to drive to the place, take pictures, grab coordinates and submit a waymark for the town of "Grane" (in one state only) and you will decline it, saying that it isn't really so 'unique' (not amusing or cool), and the person will then write some email back or post in a forum in a rage. So, it will be a challenge both to define and to manage such a category. Edited January 4, 2006 by Black Dog Trackers
+spud67 Posted January 5, 2006 Posted January 5, 2006 Towns like Miami, Manitoba and Love, Saskatchewan or even Vulcan, Alberta could be a few that could be added.
+Jake39 Posted January 5, 2006 Posted January 5, 2006 Just for the fun of it here are a few more place names. Dictionary of Newfoundland The depths of their hardship in times long past, caused such place names as: - Jerry's Nose - Nick's Nose Cove * Gripe Point * Bad Bay * Bleak Island * Misery Point * Famine Point * Wild Bight * Breakheart Point * Famish Gut * Savage Cove * Dead Man's Bay * Confusion Bay * Wreck Cove * Bareneed * Little Looping Harbour * Dildo *Come-by-Chance * Joe Batt's Arm *Empty Basket * Calves Nose * Snake's Bight * Nancy Ohve * Ha Ha Bay * Run-by-guess * Bleak Joke Co * Bumble Bee Bight * Lushes Bight * Blow-me-down
+Hard Oiler Posted January 5, 2006 Posted January 5, 2006 And you can find a few more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inter...ual_place_names including that place with the most frequently stolen sign in Austria
+spud67 Posted March 1, 2006 Posted March 1, 2006 We can't forget about Climax, Saskatchewan or Colgate, Saskatchewan. There are so many this would be an excellent category.
+Jake39 Posted March 1, 2006 Posted March 1, 2006 This 'Category is going to---> .....and there is even a link----->A Town called
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