Comments | sarcaustik: That can't be a real place.

sarcaustik

That can't be a real place.

Sep 02, 2003 10:20

Proper holiday write-up to follow soon, but here is a little quiz-ette for you to be going on with. On our travels through the West Country steer and I happened upon a number of roadsigns pointing to the unlikeliest of destinations. Your task is to identify which of the following are real places and which ones I have just made up. Tick the ones you ( Read more... )

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andyguest September 2 2003, 04:06:28 UTC

You should try and track down a copy of The Meaning Of Liff by Doglas Adams (of Hitchhiker fame) and some other bloke. It is a little black book of place names given amusing, and frequently obscene meanings for use in every day life.

Ah, found it on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330281216/qid=1062500717/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_3_2/026-3237085-8186869

sarcaustik September 2 2003, 04:07:14 UTC

Oh yes, I haven't seen a copy of that for ages! Some of these places are bound to be in it!

ex_stephmog743 September 2 2003, 04:41:13 UTC

they released a follow up called the Deeper Meaning of Liff.

I remember a couple of entries but my favourites had to be

Gastard: a new name for an illegitimate child in order to distinguish them from someone who just cut you up on the motorway

Beccles: random bone buttons placed in bacon by rogue dentists

I so have to buy that book now.

sarcaustik September 2 2003, 04:56:50 UTC

There was one for Keele which was something like 'the smell you get from washing out ashtrays' which I always liked ;-)

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steer September 2 2003, 04:56:30 UTC

You missed my favourite "Limpley Stoke" which sounds like a Victorian eupehmism. "As he limpley stoked his lady wife, Lord Huntingdon thought wistfully of the voluptuous amazonian beauty he had but lately witnessed entering the mysterious...."

sarcaustik September 2 2003, 04:58:11 UTC

You're spending way too much time reading that pirate book!

I had forgotten all about Limpley Stoke, but it was a good one indeed.

vin_petrol September 2 2003, 05:39:38 UTC

What, is this pirate book full of "voluptuous amazonian beauty"? Bagsy first to borrow it!

steer September 2 2003, 07:48:45 UTC

George McDonald Frasier's "Pyrates". It is awesome. You would love it.

Thread 6

glitterrose September 2 2003, 06:04:39 UTC

I have a friend who lives in Mingoose... I haven't got my map with me (strange, that...), there are some corkers you didn't encounter! xxx

sparklielizard September 2 2003, 10:32:37 UTC

Hmmm, so do I! She's not called Emma, is she? :-)

glitterrose September 2 2003, 10:41:52 UTC

No, she's called Sarah, but her older sister is called Emma, although she doesn't live in Mingoose anymore... xxx

sparklielizard September 2 2003, 10:46:07 UTC

Think we are talking about the same people if the Emma in question is now in Southampton! I was a good friend of hers years ago at college :-)

Thread 19

Some random silly Irish placenames trizia September 2 2003, 09:34:52 UTC

Ballinfull, Ballinspittle, Ballybunnion, Bweeng, Camp, Camus, Carnalbanagh Sheddings, Castlecat, Castlefreke, Cheekpoint, Clabby, Clones, Commons, Cong, Cranny, Dingle, Donabate, Emo, Feakle.

That'll do for now. Some of those do sound distinctly rude :-)

sarcaustik September 2 2003, 09:55:10 UTC

Castlefreke! /that sounds like a Goth soap opera!

viktoria33 September 3 2003, 19:50:31 UTC

I'd like to add my own - PENISTONE!!! I've been uphere a year and I still snigger over it!
ViXi

sarcaustik September 4 2003, 03:34:05 UTC

Heh, yes. Ny mate Zoe and I laugh every time we drive through Penis Town. Even though I know you don't pronounce it like that ;-)

viktoria33 September 4 2003, 04:39:39 UTC

I'm glad it's not just me then. :) Had a good snigger to myself the other day when I spotted the registration plate 'CUM'. I'm never going to grow up, no never not ever.