Excerpt from L.A. Times article found on findmypast.com:
TOAD SUCK, AR, VOTED AMERICA’S “MOST UNFORTUNATE” TOWN-NAME
Beats Climax, GA, & Boring, OR in poll by findmypast.com
Los Angeles, CA; Monday, August 7th, 2012: Toad Suck, Arkansas, has been voted America’s “most embarrassing or unfortunate” town-name, in a global poll.
It beat Climax in Georgia, Boring in Oregon (and its namesake in Maryland) and Hooker in Oklahoma in a poll of almost 2,000 people conducted by the family history website, findmypast.com.
“In the course of researching their family history, people can discover that their ancestors came from somewhere with an unlikely, unfortunate or downright embarrassing name”, explains Josh Taylor, genealogist and spokesperson for findmypast.com.
True, it’s not the worst thing you might unearth when tracing your ancestry. “Nonetheless”, says Taylor, “some people are disconcerted to learn that their forebears came from somewhere called, for example, Toad Suck, Roachtown or Monkey’s Eyebrow.”
Findmypast.com and its global network of partner sites asked users in seven English-speaking countries (U.S., UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) to pick from its own shortlist of 11 unfortunate or embarrassing American town- and place-names.
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