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Leaving the "stupid" category for a moment, a friend used to live here, where the street names are based on planets and similar:

Behodar:Leaving the "stupid" category for a moment, a friend used to live here, where the street names are based on planets and similar:
„Gate of Heavenly Peace“ aka Tiananmen Square.
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Will always find it amusing that Wellsford has “Lovers Lane” https://maps.app.goo.gl/ieuJqZpaB4TxRpJi9
Because they might not be, or because it's imperative? 😁
I don't know why, but I actually stayed overnight in Why once in the 90s – in my car, surrounded by coyotes the next morning (which were easily scared away by honking the horn).

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DjShadow:Will always find it amusing that Wellsford has “Lovers Lane” https://maps.app.goo.gl/ieuJqZpaB4TxRpJi9
MikeB4:
I love this one. Shooting Butts Road in Martinborough.
Neither stupid or confusing.
"The Butts" are the backstop to either an archery or rifle range.
https://martinboroughstar.co.nz/2014/07/know-your-town-30/
The cadets marched up Dublin Street to the rifle butts on Shooting Butts Road.
Tinkerisk:
I don't know why, but I actually stayed overnight in Why
Since you have been there, perhaps you now do know Why.
KiwiSurfer:
That sort of thing seemed werid to me until I noticed a pattern. Often one town will have a road leading out of it to another town -- named after the other town -- and vice versa.
Absolutely, goes back to the Middle Ages, if you are in London and want to go to Oxford, start at Oxford Street.
roobarb:
Tinkerisk:
I don't know why, but I actually stayed overnight in Why
Since you have been there, perhaps you now do know Why.
Nope. That reason would have been ‘why not?’ 😁
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"The Gulf of America".
It is confusing because it is broad and incomplete. America is two continents and a region, but they forgot to say whether it is a Gulf of North, Central or South America?
It is bordered by a lot of Central American countries so maybe we should call it the Gulf of Central America to be clear. Additionally the Gulf of South America should maybe saved for the Caribbean and the Gulf of North America should be saved for Hudson Bay and/or the Labrador Sea. Just the wrap-up all the renaming of seas around the continents of America, the Gulf of California is surrounded by Mexico (not California), so that could be renamed the Gulf of Mexico. 
In Warkworth, north of Auckland.
A street named "Earlsway".
Not Earls Way or Earlsway Rd/St/Tce/Dr/Gr or whatever.
Just...Earlsway. No other street around it is similarly named as far as I can tell.
Handsome Dan Has Spoken.
Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...
Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale
*Gladly accepting donations...
roobarb:
Neither stupid or confusing.
"The Butts" are the backstop to either an archery or rifle range.
https://martinboroughstar.co.nz/2014/07/know-your-town-30/
The cadets marched up Dublin Street to the rifle butts on Shooting Butts Road.
I wasn't implying it was stupid or confusing. Was simply saying I like the names, it appeals to my sense of humour.
Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.
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