MARILYN CORNWELL: May 24 2021 - This, That and the Other

Do you notice street names? One of my favourites is Decimal Place. But it isn't the silliest street name or the most unusual: In Canada alone, there is This, That and The Other Street in Halifax Nova Scotia. In Montana, you can drive along Bad Route Road. In Canyon County Ideaho, there is a Chicken Dinner Road,

Justin Bieber Way in Forney, Texas, was named by a true Belieber. When 11-year-old Caroline Gonzalez won a competition to be mayor of her town for the day, she chose to use her power and renamed one of the streets after her favourite pop star.

There are log of profane names included in the "silly" names covered. But that seems like a distraction from the truly strong names: Error Place is in Cincinnati - a staircase going up a hill.

Duh Drive is in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. Anyhow Lane is in Gansevoort, New York. Psycho Path was voted the most bizarre street in America - it is in Traverse City, Michgan.

There are many more HERE in the mentalfloss article. I subsequently found an article with whimsical street names - it is HERE. They seem a big more appropriate - Gentle Rain Drive, Meditation Lane, Ben Hur Road, East Princess Boulevard, Tall Grass Circle, and so on. It would be pleasant to arrive home at Daisy Lane.

What other updates are there in the unusual names news? The owners of the hobbit house Airbnb in Bridesville, B.C., announced on Saturday that they'd changed the rental's name from "Hobbitmountain Hole" to "Second Breakfast Hideaway" after they were threatened by Warner Bros. The company told them that the word "Hobbit" was copyrighted and could not be used in the Airbnb's name, according to an Instagram post from Wednesday, May 19.

Here's a street scene in Cuba. I didn't look at the street names there at all. Just as well as there seems to be double names - original and new street names. And then there are houses that don't have numbers.