Funny suburb names

[TopEndDave]

Fannie Bay and Humpty Doo.

I see that you are from my area of Australia

There is also Coconut Grove that is next to Fannie Bay. Dick Ward Drive connects the them.

[fireheart]

I seem to recall someone saying that a certain Australian beer (it's probably the Aussie beer best known by North Americans due to the ads with Paul Hogan) tasted like it was recycled. Could this be associated with the name of that suburb?

Fosters? Seriously, nobody drinks Fosters. NOBODY in Australia drinks Fosters. We have taste thank you very much!

Coopers all the way baby! (Or James Squier)

[Kit-Ginevra]

Australia.... taste.... oxymoron detected.... does not compute :P

[fireheart]

Australia.... taste.... oxymoron detected.... does not compute :P

Oi!

[Dreamstalker]

Mattel has a warehouse/shipping center in Ontario, California. A lot of people on a forum of mine used to order from them regularly (back when they had a toy license we cared about), and every so often on the new release thread there'd be a post marveling about the fact that it only cost someone $7 to have a large box shipped from Canada (and why wasn't there customs forms), and every so often a question about the US zip code. Two years of someone explaining it once a month and a few people didn't get it.

[dalesys]

Australia.... taste.... oxymoron detected.... does not compute :P

Would you stop picking your teeth!

[Kit-Ginevra]

Australia 6-7 New Zealand

[wolfie]

Mattel has a warehouse/shipping center in Ontario, California.

Home of the Mag-Lite flashlight. I've mentioned a couple times an incident where that town caused some confusion. I was picking up an LTL line haul from Springfield MA to Montreal, and after a quick glance at the manifest went back to the dispatch window. It seems that someone had seen "Ontario" on a package and put it on the truck to Canada (normally, Ontario-bound packages get put on the truck to Montreal, and then shipped west by the Canadian LTL carrier). Oops! Dispatch called for the trailer to be put back in a door PRONTO.

To add to the confusion, the next-level "domain" for both Ontarios have the same 2-letter abbreviation (CA can mean either California or Canada).

[Words4theWorld]

I don't know if someboday already mentioned it (I didn't find anything), but in Bavaria (Germany) there is a little town called Fucking.
And a village around here is called Billig (German for "cheap").

[EricKei]

Fannie Bay

That name is much more innocent in American Fanny/Fannie just means "ass" here.

[fireheart]

Australia 6-7 New Zealand

at least we're not overrun with sheep!

[Kit-Ginevra]

No you have the wombat,which just like the Australian male eats,roots and leaves

[fireheart]

No you have the wombat,which just like the Australian male eats,roots and leaves

To clarify for you non-Aussie/NZ folk, "root" over here means to basically do the mattress mosh with someone. (We use the term "barrack" to mean "I support <sports team>" although the question "which team do you go for?" can have the response "I go for <team>" without sexual connotations)

And I was under the impression that American men do that too....

[TopEndDave]

No you have the wombat,which just like the Australian male eats,roots and leaves

A wombat eats roots, shoots, and leaves.

[EricKei]

Much like another common example along the same lines:

A panda eats, shoots, and leaves.

...Makes me wonder if they favor H&K or Smith & Wesson...?