Quirky News
The atlas of 'vaguely rude place names'
A self-professed geek has created an online atlas of the world's rudest place names.
Londoner Gary Gale collected the world's most amusingly puerile place names all on one website, reports the Daily Telegraph.
It contains hundreds of ludicrously immature road, town and village names, all plotted on an eye-catching map.
British contributions include Pratt's Bottom in Orpington, Andrews Knob in Cheshire, Wetwang in Yorkshire and Ringrash Road in Northern Ireland.
The US offers Hooker in Oklahoma, Climax in Colorado, and Mianus in Connecticut - which famously featured in Jackass: the Movie.
And then there's the Albanian village of Crap, the Algerian settlement of Tit, Anus in the Philippines and countless more examples.
Mr Gale, who describes himself as a "geo-technologist and self professed geek with a life", published his unusual atlas online at http://maps.geotastic.org/rude/.
"I've had a lifelong love affair with maps since discovering the Harry Beck map of the London Underground on the back of the London A-Z street atlas at an early age," he said.
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what do you think?
katie
I took a wrong turn and ended up in prats bottom no joke lol
Robbie369P .
Did it lead to Ringrash? lol
movvi
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Baker101
Reminds me of the Inbetweeners Rude Place Names they did for Comic Relief. There was a place in Germany (or somewhere like that) called F**K in which its residents kept getting prank calls.
shaun spencer
I came across in scotland called restawhileand bethankful..oh and a place called dull.
shaun spencer
A PLACE called, i meant.
Juliecrumpton1234
...wansnt Bridgend, was it? Lol!
EmeraldEspinoza
Boring! They're really scraping for news.
Juliecrumpton1234
Aww, only having a bit of a laugh, lighten up! ;-)
screechey.screechey
Would'nt it be brill if on the weather on the news they highlighted these places, It would make it much more interesting to watch.
hugh japenos
great stuff! I knew Bell End was out there, but not N0b End! Algeria has a pair of T!ts, and Romania three Cl!ts :)) still a work in progress, though- what about Looe? or Brest? Clitheroe maybe...
hugh japenos
sorry Brest is there.
andy johnson
driviv through germny years ago i came across a sign for wankum
Robbie369P .
Should have been more careful
movvi
But did you?! Tee hee!
Juliecrumpton1234
Movvi! Lololol! X
Brian Quinn
A cheap way to make money. What next - the Dictionary of swear words around the world!! In poor taste I think.
Juliecrumpton1234
Oh I think it's quite quirky! :-)
fish41
Think there is a Robin Hoods End and Robin Hoods Bog in the UK
Emma Doolallytap
3:51pm on 14/2/2013
fAB
Juliecrumpton1234
5:58pm on 18/2/2013
I think so too! :-)