Where do these funny names come from?

How and when such things are developed? I mean naming a place that sounds so funny … is it because people start calling it that way, and one day it becomes official name…

I know many places in Karachi become official due to Bus stop name. Private Bus conductors started calling the stop as like “Saeed Manzil,” “Mughal House,” “Aisha Manzil” etc. etc. and the places became famous with those names like forever…

Then, names like BhaiNs Colony, Sindhi Muslim Society (which is actually not really funny), Bangali paaRa are probabaly depcitive of what these places are about…

But “Allah walaa College” … who thought of naming it and why?

Paaposh Nagar… kiyaa jootaY miltaY haiN wahaaN :halo:?

On the same hand, translating original names of places in USA sound extremely funny… I remember having few threads in the past on places in USA translated in urdu…

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Back home in my city there used to be a poultry shop named "Allah wala anda, murghi merchant" lol never made any sense to me.

and there was a no name hospital which was running with the support of community and it was totally free, like if u r poor and u need a heart transplant its gona be totally free, and then ppl started thinking ke who funds this hospital, and it ended up as "Allah tawakul hospital" and now its the official name, Allah tawakul huspataal lol.

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:omg:

theres som1 i know her home has “manzil-e-maqsood” written on that adress plate thingy

and it was so funny reading that cuz no1 in their family has this name "maqsood: and no1 here has anythign liek that it was first tiem i was seeing this thing :cb: so the girl i was with she told me that its pretty common in pakistan :cb:

but still it was funny for me

:rotfl:

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EcoShan: LoL … those two names are funny…

there is a Chauhdry Rehmat Ali Qulfi Merchant in sadar karachi… :cb:

Then, who would have thought a person’s name could be Ghaseetaa Khan … Ghaseeta Khan’s Haleem in Sadar Karachi used to be famous once upon a time…

I remember seeing a house named the same “manzil-e-maqsood” near Ancholi or water pump, Karachi… :hmmm: are we talking about the same place?

:omg: :omg: :omg: :omg: ghaseeta khan :rotfl:

NO im talkign bout a “manzil-e-maqsood” here in riyadh :omg:

now how wierd is that? :cb:

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hahaha ghaseeta khan lolzzz

May be it’s the same family :smiley:

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and Gora Qabrista would have made sense if "white" meaning goray were being burried there... but it's a cemetary of christians.....

why stereotyping christians being only goray?

but no1 has this name "maqsood" in thier whole family :S

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^^ genius hi rehna :@:@

MAnzil e Maqsood means "final destination" it doesn mean that someone should be named maqsood in the family lol.

ajkal ke bachey bhi na bus mad

mujhe kia pata?:naraz:

i saw that thing for the first tiem in my life :vivo: and laugheed liek crazies :cb:

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lolz and now i m laughing.

yeah its a very common house name in pak, when ppl retire they build houses and call it there final destination.

interesting :hmmm:

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i know m interesting, u r not the first one to say that :D

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kala baagh :hmmm: wat kind of baagh is kaala? :S samajh se bahir hai :@:

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Toba Taik singh :S
yeh konsey sardar ka naam hai

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nanga parbat wth!?:@:

all of the students in my class used to laugh whenever we read this name in social science class :cb: