What's in a name?

Whistle
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You mean to tell me that there’s no Fipplarium museum, no annual Gathering of the Chiff, no monumental statue of Dale Wisely, no Whistling Billy’s Burgers … HERE?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintwistle

OK, so they’ve spelled it slightly wrong. Judging by what I see here on the board, our members won’t even notice.

C’mon, villagers, step up to your responsibility. Do you think that Thong (Kent) and Sandy Balls (Hampshire) are sitting on their respective assets? No, siree.

http://www.anglotopia.net/ultimate-list-of-funny-british-place-names/

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I don’t know about funny place names, but, literature now… the book, Rush to the Outhouse by I. P. Daily was mentioned by the little lads at the last session, and then another little lad said oh no, that book was by Willy MakeIt!

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Oh, I have to take place in this…here’s a few localities in Newfoundland …Dildo which is just below Spread Eagle, Blow Me Down, Come By Chance, Leading Tickle, Pothead…that’s just a few that I can remember.

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Morrow Ohio. Check out the song. To Morrow with the Muppets. " The train that goes to Morrow left a half an hour today"

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Then south of the border there’s the ever popular
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse,_Pennsylvania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ball,_Pennsylvania

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Awesome! You win this one for sure!

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Well, its obvious that the people from BB need to meet the people from Interc, and meanwhile, the people from Dilly need to stop that. :laughing:

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Now wait a minute… I used to work with a gent named Richard Head… think about it.

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Now you sure know of that poor little village in Salzburg, Austria, don’t you?
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking

EDIT: Doesn’ the C+F censorship robot work brilliantly :laughing:

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Isn’t that where they make the beer?




Traditionally this is the time where the village of Muff, Co Donegal gets a mention. And the clever souls who started the local sub aqua club.

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Have you tried it, Mr. Gumby? Hell literally means “blond”, so it’s the blond lager from F. (actually brewed in a Black Forest brewery)

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The United States had a large number of obscene place-names but these were changed by the US government when it began going throughout the country making official maps.

These unprintable names were changed on the spot to benign ones, at the mere whim of the cartographers, as I understand.

It’s one of the reasons this country has so many dull and repetitive names (26 Manchesters, 37 Berlins, 21 Romes, 19 Viennas; towns named North East, Due West, etc).

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And another classic is the Perthshire town of Dull and it’s Oregon twin:

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And then there is Boogertown, NC to add to the list.

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There are two in Colorado
NoName and Dotsero.
The latter is how it looks on a map;
The former I cannot tap.

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Dotsero from dot zero a surveyor’s turning point

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Aye Mate,
Wasn’t he related to Peter O’ Toole?

Cayden