Nusswatoks From Nassawadox

Douglas Adams and John Lloyd wrote The Meaning Of Liff on vacation. Their premise was to take words that are currently just hanging around on signposts with no inherent meanings and assign them to widely recognizable (though as-yet-unnamed) things or situations from life. For example:

Bolney (n.)
A song created by one's father during one's infancy, which consists of a large variety of made-up words in addition to said father's sporting and cinematic heroes.

Tearing up the US-13 last week I saw plenty of funny place names: Assateague, Nassawadox and Onancock. Yeah, really. "Onan" and "cock". Together. Outrageous! I also enjoyed the sign welcoming me to Seaford: "voted 28th best small town in the U.S.A." I didn't stop.