[canuck_conservative]

OK people, have at it.

[American_Centurion]

About 5 miles from my house is “Bugger Hollow Road” No matter which connotation you pick, pardon the pun, it isn’t pleasant.

[ßuddaßudd]

I’m embarrassed to live on Little Rock Dr.

[murphE]

[aculeus]

How about Akbar Road?

[calex59]

One street in a little town in my county is named “Pig Turd Alley” due to the amount of pigs raised in that area during the gold rush era. A few years ago the residents rebelled and demanded a name change, I can’t remember what they changed it to because it is still called by it’s original name by all the old timers.

[Moose4]

They’re right. A friend of mine was moving into a house in a new development outside Charlotte, and specifically avoided the house on Tesh Court because he thought that the association with John Tesh might hurt the property value. Seriously.

When they put an E911 system into the rural county where I grew up, they had to name all the roads, which were all previously just referenced by county road numbers (and the addresses were all “route X box Y”). One county road a few miles from me became Warrick Barn Road. Nobody knew that a Warrick had ever lived on that road, so the locals were confused. It turns out that the only resident on the road that expressed a preference wanted to name it Ward Bond Road, after John Wayne’s old sidekick...but the county clerk couldn’t understand the guy’s accent, and wrote it down as “Warrick Barn” instead of “Ward Bond.” Gummint employees, at their finest.

[R. Scott]

I pass Blow Flats Road nearly every day.

[JCEccles]

There's a street in Bicester, Oxfordshire, UK named Crumps Butt.

The kids who grow up on that street have got to be tough.

[I still care]

These are not unpleasant names, but I’ve always been fascinated by “sections” named after themes. Most people don’t know in the original NY Levittown there are several sections named after birds, or flowers, or stars. People would say, “I’m from the bird section”.

Presidents are common, and states, but I’ve found authors, occupations, and in Franklin Sq. NY there is a section named after Newspapers.

[Hatteras]

[Dumpster Baby]

[Phantom Lord]

My favorite road in Cary NC... Wild Weasel Way.

[Bars4Bill]

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I live in Bumpass, VA.

[GreenLanternCorps]

I used to always pass through the intersection of Grinn Dr. and Barrett Rd.

[Nea Wood]

A friend of mine lives near a street called “Big Butte.”

[CholeraJoe]

The main street in Helena, Montana is Last Chance Gulch.

[Michael.SF.]

Between Barstow and Las Vegas. Never did know how to pronounce it. Best I could do was:

ziz-icks

[fanfan]

Canada ping.

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[COBOL2Java]

Doesn't surprise me. Here in Northern Virginia, we have two towns whose names were changed by developers to make the real estate more marketable: the "new" names are: Sterling and Reston.

Sterling used to be called "Dranesville" (as in "I flushed my money down the Dranesville"). Reston used to be called Whiele (pronounced WHEEL-ee).