Texas, how weird thou art!

I was eating out at Pei Wei's with a friend the other night and somehow our conversation turned to the weirdness of Texas - more specifically the never ending amusement that can be found by whipping out a Texas map and reading off the names of obscure little Texas towns.

"My friends and I took a trip to East Texas and since its a 6.5 hr drive we entertained ourselves with reading the names of all the ridiculous little towns around Texas. I mean Kickapoo! Really, if I lived in a town named Kickapoo I couldn't say my town name without laughing. I mean the town name has POO in it!"

At Laura's last statement I almost choked on my honey glazed chicken and rice. Needless to say much laughter ensued.

Its true, Texas has a wondrous array of charming, odd, weird, funny and highly entertaining town names that, well, make you wonder just how in the heck they were named that way. For your amusement and consideration I give you:

Maud
Mineola
Desdemonia
Seymour (pronounced See-More)
Smiley
Ben Bolt
Tomball
Tarzan
Austonio (One would think Austonio would be between Austin and San Antonio. If one did, then one would be wrong. It's between Houston and Dallas (Houston County).
Point Blank
Cut and Shoot
Gun Sight
Gun Barrel City
What can I say, we Texans like our guns and are proud of it!
Munday
Hot Coffee
Raisin
Oatmeal
Noodle
Kickapoo
Fluvanna
Latexo
Fink
Grit
Lawn
Nada
Voca
Zorn
Arp
Needmore
Jot 'em Down
Nameless
Study Butte
Looneyville
Notrees (One of my personal favorites)
Bug Tussle
Chocalate Bayou
Hoop and Holler

Do you live in a town with a funny name or know of one nearby? Leave your funny town name in the comment box, I would love to hear it!