First Recumbent Century (long)

I wrote:
I almost hoped I'd have to resort to the sandals...

Bum. You know what I meant.

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Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
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"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

in message , Danny Colyer
') wrote:

I arranged to meet Jamie at Warmley Station...

H'mmmm...

Somewhere between Stanton Drew and Chew Valley Lake...

Dubious...

we were passing close to Nempnett Thrubwell...

Nope.

At Clapton in Gordano...

No way!

Just before Pill...

You're taking the ****!

I parted company at Mangotsfield Station...

....even in England they don't have placenames _that_ daft!

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(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

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in message , Danny Colyer
') wrote:

I arranged to meet Jamie at Warmley Station...

H'mmmm...

Somewhere between Stanton Drew and Chew Valley Lake...

Dubious...

we were passing close to Nempnett Thrubwell...

Nope.

At Clapton in Gordano...

No way!

Just before Pill...

You're taking the ****!

I parted company at Mangotsfield Station...

...even in England they don't have placenames _that_ daft!

I think they do. Some of the above feature in 'The Meaning of Liff' IIRC

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

Simon Brooke wrote:
....even in England they don't have placenames _that_ daft!

G
They do in Somerset.

The South East has a few good ones, too. I well remember the first time
I passed through Pratt's Bottom on a school trip.

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Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
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"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 21:57:50 +0100, Danny Colyer
wrote:

Simon Brooke wrote:
....even in England they don't have placenames _that_ daft!

G
They do in Somerset.

The South East has a few good ones, too. I well remember the first time
I passed through Pratt's Bottom on a school trip.

Head for the Fens. Pass through such enticing hamlets as Ring's End,
Three Holes, Ape's Hall, Loosegate and appropriately here, Guy's Head.
Not to mention the bizarre Quadring Eaudyke and Carlton Scroop.

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
Some of the above feature in 'The Meaning of Liff' IIRC

Surprisingly, I could only find one of them:
Nempnett Thrubwell (n.) - The feeling experienced when driving off for
the first time on a brand new motorbike.

Perhaps some of the others are in 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff', but my
copy doesn't appear to be in its correct place on the bookcase.

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Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
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"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

Helen Deborah Vecht opined the following...
I think they do. Some of the above feature in 'The Meaning of Liff' IIRC

Epping has since become such a common part of my family's language that
some people can't actually remember where it came from, and expect to
find it in the OED.

Jon

Danny Colyer wrote:

The South East has a few good ones, too. I well remember the first
time I passed through Pratt's Bottom on a school trip.

Demonstrating the existence of this to a female acquaintance by the name of
Lindsey Pratt had an, ah, /interesting/ effect...

Helions Bumpstead. Now /there's/ a name to conjure wif.

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Dave Larrington wrote:
Danny Colyer wrote:

The South East has a few good ones, too. I well remember the first
time I passed through Pratt's Bottom on a school trip.

Demonstrating the existence of this to a female acquaintance by the name of
Lindsey Pratt had an, ah, /interesting/ effect...

Helions Bumpstead. Now /there's/ a name to conjure wif.

As is aptly named Ugley Green, Essex. Just down the road from the famous
Ugley Womens' Institute.

Tony

Reply to Dave Larrington


I've been to ****t (the one in Orkney, I believe there are others),
and over in Cheshire there's Peover Superior and Lower Peover.

I'm told the locals pronounce "Peover" to rhyme with Belvoir. As is
only proper.

--
Mark, UK.
We hope to hear him swear, we love to hear him squeak,
We like to see him biting fingers in his horny beak.