Great route names?

Does a great name make a good climb even better? I think it might.

Take, for example, Bullet the Blue Sky: Sounds cool; comes from a cool song; is in a cool place; looks simply badass (& is way over my head at this point). The climb itself is intriguing in so many ways, but with a name that good, I think it makes it even more inticing.

I've seen so many perfectly-named routes, I figure these guys must stay up reeeeeeeeally late coming up with some of them.

Which takes me to my current favorite name: Bullet the Brown Cloud. I fell over laughing when I first heard that one. Perfect in so many ways. Those guys were on a roll over there with Deck Chairs on the Titanic among others...

Got one?

GI Joe Does Barbie 5.9+ at Combat Rock: Great Name, but an ok climb

I have a friend who boats a lot and always coments about the names of climbs vs the names of rapids. Even he admits that climbers rule the creative side of naming. Almost every river has a rapid named "hell hole" or "suck hole".

I'm going to be that a ton of the routes people list have references to drugs or sex; and there is nothing wrong with that!

I'll bite...no particular order and for no other reason than they popped into my head, here are a few route names that come to mind:

Wear Cattle
Weasels Rip My Flesh
No Mistake Or Pancake
El Supremo
Global Gorilla
Animal Magnetism
Buffalo Bullion
Toad Strangler
Ugly Stick
Thunder Thighs
Your Mother
Pow Wow Canal
Shining Path

......I could go on but that's enough for now.

My current favorite is

The Murphy-Newton Conspiricy

Magical Chrome Plated Semi-Automatic Enema Syringe

Just did a new one with Doug Cornick so of course we called it Cornickopia

cunning stunt
pinch a loaf
edging skills or hospital bills
white punks on dope
tigers in lipstick

Fuzzy Undercling

When I was a kid we climbed a lot at an obscure cliff between Conifer and Evergreen. Anyhow we did a number of what we assumed to be first ascents. We'd get stoned and come up with the most ridiculous names. I pulled out an old Climbing magazine this afternoon so as to help me remember some of them for your reading pleasure.

"Schopenhauer's Flight from Reality"
"Cheeses of Nazareth"
"Cerebral Fluid"
"Estrogen cracks"
"Barakiner Exsuprise"
the original "Mantel Illness"
it was next to "Electro Shock Therapy"
which had the direct finish "Lithium Headwall"

There were many more

Love that one. Mantal Illness. That is great.

You're Ugly and Your Mother Dresses You Funny

And for some reason I have always liked "Dags in Beanland"

Wayward Penguins

Dingo ate my Floater

Let's F*ck the Crackwhore

I prefer the "politically incorrect" ones....take your pick;.....

joshuatreeclimb.com/History…

All time favorite-
For a Fat Chick You Sure Run Fast!

"Tube Steak." Excellent

Catheuselum - Taylors Falls MN, Wisconsin Strip
Devils Chair (R.I.P.) - Taylors Falls MN, Minnesota Strip
Goofed on Skunkweed - Red Wing MN, Barn Bluff
Micro Balls - Red Wing MN, Barn Bluff

I have always been tickled by the route names at Joshua Tree. One of my all time favorites; Too Loose to Trek. A short dirty little climb.

Trent's Mom
Witness the Fitness
Soul Slinger
Churning in the Wake (see also: Churning Sky, Churning in the Ozone)
Heinous Cling

Names that pun other famous names work too...another example from Joshua Tree, Boogers On a Lampshade

Soluble Fish
Pretty Hate Machine