Toad Suck, Arkansas has pipped Climax, Georgia and not one but two Borings for the dubious honour of "most embarrassing or unfortunate" town name in the United States.
Findmypast.com, a family history website, said it asked 1754 of its users in seven English-speaking countries to pick their favourites from a short list of American communities with oddball names.
Toad Suck's name harks back to 19th century Arkansas River steamboat crews who, according to a local website, would drop in on the local tavern and "suck" on liquor until they swelled like toads.
Its biggest claim to fame today is a popular spring festival, Toad Suck Dazes, that raises money for scholarships.
Climax, a town of 300 at the highest point of a railway line between Savannah, Georgia and the Chattahoochee River, placed second, followed by Boring, Oregon - already famous for twinning earlier this year with Dull, Scotland - and Boring, Maryland.
Rounding out the list were Hooker, Oklahoma; Assawoman, Virginia; Belchertown, Massachusetts; Roachtown, Illinois; Loveladies, New Jersey; Squabbletown, California; and Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky.
"If there were an Olympics for unlikely town names, America would surely be good for a medal, if not the gold," said Josh Taylor, a genealogist and spokesperson for Findmypast.com.
Another website, Accuracyproject.org, features a thorough list of unusual American place names, including Two Egg, Florida; Bacon, Delaware; Toast, North Carolina; Hot Coffee, Mississippi; and Milk Springs, Alabama.
You live where?
You live where?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Let me know when they can better Yorkey's Knob! 
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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They say this is a good town in which to have a conversation....
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I think that Canada, even being so much smaller, can give it a run for its money (just a sampling here):Gob wrote:"If there were an Olympics for unlikely town names, America would surely be good for a medal, if not the gold," said Josh Taylor, a genealogist and spokesperson for Findmypast.com.
Blow Me Down, Come By Chance - Newfoundland and Labrador
Lower Economy, Malignant Cove - Nova Scotia
Asbestos, St. Louis-du-Ha-Ha! - Québec (I think the latter was named for the patron saint of clowns, or something)
Bummers Roost, Swastika - Ontario
Cranberry Portage, Flin Flon - Manitoba
Eyebrow, Old Wives - Saskatchewan
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Medicine Hat - Alberta
Blubber Bay, Stoner - British Columbia
And then the longest Canadian place name: Cape St. George-Petit Jardin-Grand Jardin-De Grau-Marches Point-Loretto in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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How could I have forgotten Punkeydoodles Corners, which is close to where I grew up.
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Gonna let ya know that list is very uuuh, questionable.
There is a Toad Suck State Park outside of Conway in Arkansas.
Actually gonna be there this weekend the youngest turned one today and we will be celebrating it Saturday.
There is a Toad Suck State Park outside of Conway in Arkansas.
Actually gonna be there this weekend the youngest turned one today and we will be celebrating it Saturday.
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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What's in a name? Police uncover huge cannabis factory in farmhouse in Pot House Lane
By Rebecca Seales
9 August 2012
The police will surely agree that they should have read the signs, after a cannabis factory was discovered at a farmhouse in Pot House Lane, Lancashire.
Around 200 plants with lighting and cultivation equipment were seized from an upstairs bedroom of the property in Oswaldtwistle.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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I never even thought of that! 
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Not a town, but there is a Big Bone Lick state park in Kentucky. The road there is Beaver Street.
Insert "beaver" jokes here!
Insert "beaver" jokes here!
Treat Gaza like Carthage.
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Then there's this town in Newfoundland....
...not to mention this one in Austria....
...not to mention this one in Austria....
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Right off I-5
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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Yes, theft has been a big problem...
And "travel tips" like this don't help....("What to do in Fucking, Austria: Steal the Fucking street sign.)"
And "travel tips" like this don't help....("What to do in Fucking, Austria: Steal the Fucking street sign.)"
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
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South of here is a small town called Los Baños, 'The Bathrooms'*
* Not exactly, el baño is bathroom, but los baños translates as The Baths ...not that anybody cares about correct translation around here.
* Not exactly, el baño is bathroom, but los baños translates as The Baths ...not that anybody cares about correct translation around here.
