Interesting facility names

[archer]

I really like peppering my worlds with oddly-named places whether for humor or as an homage to something.

 

For example, a Catholic hospital called Sweet Mother of Mercy.

 

That's homage to the original portrayal of Luke Cage's Power Man who seemed to put the word "sweet" in front of various words as if it were some sort of catchphrase bought with a variable effect. "Sweet Christmas!"

 

Anything memorable that you've done or run across?

[archer]

An invisibility spell went wrong on one fantasy game world and turned a tavern's walls permanently invisible.

 

People took to calling it the Outside Inn because all the people sitting around tables while drinking appeared to be sitting outdoors. And it became something of a tourist attraction. The regulars make a game of trying to get someone, whether inside or outside, to run into a wall (which is a great excuse to start a bar fight).

 

Well, someone or some thing. People bringing in grain to throw on the floor to attract pigeons (or horses) was a nuisance until the innkeep figured out it was easier to sell a handful of grain than to pester people into stopping.

 

I've since used the Outside Inn several times.

[Tjack]

  I’m from Massachusetts so I’ve often passed the town signs that say “Entering Beverly” and the even more disconcerting “Entering Quincy”.

[archer]

1 minute ago, Tjack said:

  I’m from Massachusetts so I’ve often passed the town signs that say “Entering Beverly” and the even more disconcerting “Entering Quincy”.

 

 

Is there a corresponding sign saying "You are now leaving Beverly. Thanks for your visit and please come again soon"?

[Tjack]

  There’s also Marion, Sharon and Lawrence.  My car is a slut.

2 minutes ago, archer said:

 

 

Is there a corresponding sign saying "You are now leaving Beverly. Thanks for your visit and please come again soon"?

 

[Ninja-Bear]

8 minutes ago, Tjack said:

  I’m from Massachusetts so I’ve often passed the town signs that say “Entering Beverly” and the even more disconcerting “Entering Quincy”.

Gotcha beat. In PA, we have Blue Ball, Bird-in-hand, then Paradise. All in a row 😜. Going to my Mother in Law’s, the is a Pithole too! 

[Tjack]

Don’t you also have Intercourse?   Have fun with that answer.🥴

[BoloOfEarth]

Here in Michigan we have Hell (my maternal grandmother lived there, and my dad used to say he could tell his mother-in-law to go to Hell... and she would), Paradise, Climax, Vulcan, Christmas...

 

But back to the OP.

 

In the "Killer Frost" episode of The Flash, I liked where they had a frozen food plant with a truck outside labeled "Ledded Goh Frozen Foods".

 

I remember someone here once said that, given the large number of ambushes that kept taking place when the heroes sat down to eat, he gave his campaign city a French restaurant:  Le Piege Evident.

 

 

3 hours ago, Tjack said:

  I’m from Massachusetts so I’ve often passed the town signs that say “Entering Beverly” and the even more disconcerting “Entering Quincy”.

 

3 hours ago, Tjack said:

  There’s also Marion, Sharon and Lawrence.  My car is a slut.

 

There's a whole song about that by John Forster:  "Entering Marion"

 

 

[Duke Bushido]

2 hours ago, Ninja-Bear said:

Gotcha beat. In PA, we have Blue Ball, Bird-in-hand, then Paradise. All in a row 😜. Going to my Mother in Law’s, the is a Pithole too! 

 

 

We've got Hopeyaliktit.

 

Seriously:  if it was any smaller, all the town limit signs would be in the same post.   First time I went through it was in the 80s, back when I was moving houses (actually, every time I have been through it was when I was moving houses.  Damn I miss doing that   ).  It's cute:  the "entering" sign is "welcome to."  That's it.  a few yards later, the "leaving" sign is "Hope ya liked it!"

 

 

3 minutes ago, BoloOfEarth said:

I remember someone here once said that, given the large number of ambushes that kept taking place when the heroes sat down to eat, he gave his campaign city a French restaurant:  Le Piege Evident.

 

 

I not only remember that, I _stole_ it! 

 

 

[Ninja-Bear]

4 hours ago, Tjack said:

Don’t you also have Intercourse?   Have fun with that answer.🥴

Yes I....😜wr, we do.

Hey we have Mars and Mexico too!

[Tjack]

1 hour ago, Ninja-Bear said:

Yes I....😜wr, we do.

Hey we have Mars and Mexico too!

   Well, it’s always better when you’re not alone.🤗

[Lord Liaden]

British Columbia has Push and Be Damned Rapids, while there's a town in Quebec named St. Louis de Ha! Ha!

 

On Champions Earth there's a couple of interesting place names in New Mexico. In the desert of White Sands, where the first atomic bomb was tested, many years later an experimental "delta bomb" was detonated which left the desert permanently irradiated with strange energy. That energy also mutated animals and humans in the desert into zombielike forms. The desert has since been renamed Burning Sands. Also in New Mexico, a recreation of a frontier town, supposedly a tourist attraction, was actually set up as a front to cover a VIPER research lab. The town is called Snake Gulch.

[Strand]

I don't know which game it started in, but quite some time ago one one of our GMs kept on saying the bad guys were in the Abandoned Warehouses. So we started calling it "The Abandoned Warehouse District".

 

Of coarse there is the misspelling "The Abandoned Whorehouse District"

[archer]

16 hours ago, Strand said:

I don't know which game it started in, but quite some time ago one one of our GMs kept on saying the bad guys were in the Abandoned Warehouses. So we started calling it "The Abandoned Warehouse District".

 

Of coarse there is the misspelling "The Abandoned Whorehouse District"

 

The question begs: what kind of community would abandon the whorehouses?

[Tjack]

I always liked the bar in Family Guy being called the Drunken Clam.  The Censors might have just taken this as stated because the town of Quahog is named for a clam.  But at least here in the Northeastern U.S. that word is also used to describe a part of the female anatomy.

[steriaca]

Talking about cartoon clams and elephant trunks...

Crim from Interspecies Reviewers, an angel being who fell to earth. Prehaps the most innocent horndog in anime existence. 

[wcw43921]

2 hours ago, archer said:

 

The question begs: what kind of community would abandon the whorehouses?

 

Most likely to curb a VD epidemic.  Disappointing, I know, but desperate times and all.  .  .

[DShomshak]

 

 

The closest my Champions campaigns ever came to a "joke" name was Fort Straithness, where the US government supers program conducted some of its fringier research. The people who worked there called it Fort Strangeness.

 

The sup[er-prison was formally named the United Ststes Superbeing Containment and Research Facility (US-SCARF), but was usually called the Lab Cage.

 

Dean Shomshak

[Lord Liaden]

Going back to the Champions Universe again for a moment, UNTIL nicknames its quartermaster division "Santa Claus," hence their equipment warehouses in New York are referred to as the North Pole.

[pinecone]

I used to use agents from the Department of Unified Military Powers Research...or Dumper for short.

[IndianaJoe3]

My last superhero game featured the Metahuman Investigation Bureau, or MIB.

[freakboy6117]

I'm a sucker for these so my Uk hero stuff is full of them.

The Department of Administrative Affairs is the government office responsible for all extra normal activity in the UK .

It's nice and nebulous and of course is stolen from the classic sitcom Yes Minister.

 

I also Have a unkillable scottish vigilante called Glasgow Kiss

Blackpool's super hero is The Illuminator.

Brighton's is Promenade

London's big villain is a insane super genius former army chaplain aka the White Chaplain his gang includes the density mimic enforcer Ton O Brix, Their armorer Mr Maxwell Smith and His Silver Hammer and Sword wielding assassin Edgeware

 

 

[Jkeown]

 

PERIL

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