Horneytown, North Carolina

Horneytown, North Carolina

by Liv | Published on February 5th, 2006, 5:29 pm | Greensboro

Does Climax & Highpoint Realize they are the center of a long running Joke

Okay for the 100 millionth time, I have received another incarnation of the "odd road sign email." You know signs like "Bat Cave" this way. or "Diesel Fried Chicken" or a Taco Bell sign that reads "Now Hiring all (expletive)." The one sign that is always in there is the Climax / Highpoint sign that appears here just outside of Greensboro.

In this latest email someone intelligently placed a sub-title under the picture that says "Well, thank goodness!!! Up until now, only 36% of women have been able to find this."

This email puts this sign in the company of a sign that says "Do not hump under any circumstances" and a "Caution water on road during rain" sign.

Now I'm sure every single one of us has gotten this email. But Does High Point or Climax know about this little joke. Would they care if they did? Or maybe... just maybe.... IT WAS PLANNED THIS WAY!

Let us not forget that the town of Erect is just down the road from Climax. There must be a better sign somewhere.

And yes....they realize the names create a joke.

Wow, I never knew that there was a town called Erect, NC... it literally took me 20 minutes of searching on the internet to even find a map. The funniest part was when you type erect, NC into Yahoo... the first listing is for directions from Erect to Climax!!! Someones been doing some linking!

You would expect a town by the name of Horneytown, would in all likelyhood be some cunning joke upon an area with promiscuous residents, just as Greensboring is play on Greensboro's lack luster reputation, right?

It isn't. Horneytown is actually the name of a town in North Carolina. You can see it on the Map here. What's even more funny, is it's minutes from Greensboro. Maybe we could hope to get annexed by them, just so we can call the city Horneytown. We'd have crowds of singers just waiting to write a smooth R&B Funk that's perfect for love making.

The truth is I think Horneytown has already been annexed by High Point, although you can still buy T-shirts online recognizing the town's heritage here:

What I find that's interesting though is the irony that North Carolina was primarily a religious Mecca for many immigrants. Yet I assume the name of some of these town names do have some historical correlation to it's modern meaning. Sure Climax could mean other things, but Horneytown? Maybe Horney Toad? Seriously... Is this proof or indication that even the baptist needed a place to go when the urge to release oneself was overwhelming? Or am I reading way to much into this one? Maybe it's just named after someone with the last name Horney? But then how did they get their name?

In addition to HorneyTown, North Carolina is also home to a town called Erect, Climax, & Bottom.

I lived in Climax and had a license plate
that said "Climax, NC A place where people come together"

pretty funny if you ask me

My understanding of the history of Horneytown (from a fellow who had lived there once) was that it was named after the Horney family, and their business (this fellow said this with a straight face!) Horney Livestock.

Sure, the word came to mean certain things in the past 20 or 30 years. No doubt they wouldn't have dreamed of naming the town after its most prominent citizens if they'd known the future. And the family would have changed their names, I bet.

But it does make for a lot of fun these days. Who knows? Maybe when we're old "green" will become a euphimism for "certain things" as well. :twisted:

Horneytown is actually the name of a town in North Carolina. You can see it on the Map here. What's even more funny, is it's minutes from Greensboro. Maybe we could hope to get annexed by them, just so we can call the city Horneytown. We'd have crowds of singers just waiting to write a smooth R&B Funk that's perfect for love making.

Great. Now all day I'll be walking around unable to stop my brain from singing, "Won't you take me to -- Do-Do-Do -- Horneytown ..."

Along the same lines, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania -- a rather conservative locale famous as home to the ultra-demure Amish -- has the notorious municipal trio of Intercourse, Paradise and Blue Ball.

There's a book about Horneytown and other places with randy names.
http://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Horneytown-North-Carolina-Population/dp/1440504547/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279590846&sr=8-1

There's always Dildo, Newfoundland - on the Dildo Arm of Trinity Bay

Not to mention crackin, Austria

and Anus, France