Street names in your town

Nighteyes on 23/2/2001 at 21:41

We've ot many interesting street names here in Budapest like Good luck, Pighead or Nameless street (Jó szerencse, Disznófõ, Névtelen utca).

We love animals so we have some funny animal street names: Camel, Kitten, Tiger, Wasp, Hamster, Goldfish, Mosquito (Teve, Cica, Tigris, Darázs, Hörcsög, Aranyhal, Szúnyog).

Lots of thiefy names too: Guard, Keeper, Plan, Torch, Arrow, Pagan, Treasure and Trouble street (Strázsa, Õr, Terv, Fáklya, Nyíl, Pogány, Kincs, Gond utca).

And some weird street names: Chemical, Surgeon, Bone, Rib, Sweat (Vegyszer, Sebész, Csont, Borda, Veríték).

Keeper of Metal and Gold on 23/2/2001 at 22:56

I used to live on Chicken Dinner Road

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xoshade on 25/2/2001 at 20:28

I'm going to Budapest so that I can nick all those cool street signs. Hope you don't mind.

Anyone know the penalty for sign-thievery?

h-son on 25/2/2001 at 21:02

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Originally posted by BlueGrin:
I thought of the same joke, fortunately I stopped myself before I embarrassed myself with it in public.

Quite obviously I don't mind making a fool of myself, as it's one of the few things I do really well. I say, go with what you know

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...no, my little tiny town has no cool street names, but I'm bored and feel the urge to post something...

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Kyloe on 26/2/2001 at 13:08

Ok, I do not live on Shakespeareplatz,as it's not a valid address, but near it. Are you happy now, Alex? Then STFU!

The vast majority of streets here are named after local heroes or for where they go, too. There are about a dozen Berliner Straßen along the perimeter, that used to lead to Berlin, but have long since been swallowed by the metropole.

Foreign street names can be a bit of a problem. I once met somebody from Guineastraße. He must have slept through his French lessons, because he pronounced it 'Gooey-neastraße'.
I told him, that the 'u' was not a vowel, but indicated that the 'g' was a stop-consonant, not a fricative. Actually I said, "It's 'Giiiiii-neastraße', you stupid twit!"
He said, everybody in the neighbourhood pronounced it like he did.
"Ah, I see. Just like that fancy beer, whatsitcalled, 'Gooey-ness'."
"Exactly," he said.

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h-son on 26/2/2001 at 15:07

I finally came up with one, <A HREF="http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/Forum1/HTML/004121-2.html">inspired by another thread</A>:

In one of the industrial districts of this tiny little town is a power plant. Naturally, it's located on Kraftverksvägen

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Many times have I contemplated stealing that road sign...

...but I'm too old for that now

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Kraftwerk in German, Kraftverk in Swedish, Power Plant in English...väg means road... etc.

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Kyloe on 13/1/2002 at 09:20

Why not? When everybody else is resurrecting old threads. <img src="graemlins/angel.gif" border="0" alt="[Angel]" />

Myoldnamebroke on 13/1/2002 at 13:50

Well, I'll take the opportunity to tell everyone that I went to school on Christmas Pudding Land <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

MsLedd on 13/1/2002 at 19:33

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David on 13/1/2002 at 20:27

lol MsLedd! <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

 We have Solar Court, but all of the houses in that street are solar-powered, which explains that away.

All the rest I have seen are fairly normal :/