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| 861738. Thu Nov 03, 2011 6:22 am |
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| zomgmouse wrote: | | Kissing in Germany and Fucking in Austria. |
Kissing is 142 kilometres (88.1 miles) from Fucking. )
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| Gooische Vrijgezel
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| 861810. Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:50 pm |
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| marjan wrote: | | Kissing is 142 kilometres (88.1 miles) from Fucking. ) |
Great. Let's compile a really, really long list (including Mianus, visited by Jackass: "Is there a hardware store in Mianus?"):
http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?p=287730#287730 |
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| suze
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| 861823. Thu Nov 03, 2011 6:02 pm |
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| As many will be aware, I spend much of my working life with girls in the 16-18 age group. The notion that Kissing is 88.1 miles from Fucking would certainly strike a chord with many of them - but it's not really the sort of thing that I'm encouraged to talk about in class ... |
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| suze
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| 861826. Thu Nov 03, 2011 6:24 pm |
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LOL ...
At this point, we must note that you can't proceed from Kissing to Fucking in a straight line. First religion gets in the way (i.e. you have to get around München, whose name derives from monks), and then you have to, ahem, take a detour through the hills.
So by road, it is 113.7 miles from Kissing to Fucking. |
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| 911136. Wed May 23, 2012 5:13 am |
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I remember on a trip through Wales noticing the propensity for the word "Pant" in place names... this led us to Pant-y-gellin and onwards to the highly amusing Pant-y-girdl (which really was a blink and you miss it place!)
There's also a "Druid's Bottom" in Lincolnshire (Bottom being the old word to describe the area set aside for Longbow practise).
I live just outside a small village we have re-christened "Sandwiches", because the actual name is Coldham...
Also in Lincolnshire, but not so much an outlandish place name as an outlandish pronounciation (in comparision to its spelling: Azlackby |
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| 'yorz
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| 911196. Wed May 23, 2012 8:58 am |
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My German friend had problems pronouncing Haltwhistle, so it went from Haxwechsel to
Horst Wessel.
That now has stuck. :( |
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| Posital
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| 913425. Sat Jun 02, 2012 4:56 am |
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The thing that concerns me about this pic - don't get me wrong, the people are just fine - it's the fact that it's been changed.
You can see that a "Cocking" sticker has simply been plastered over another name, which leads me to two possibilities:
1) The people of Cocking couldn't afford their own sign, so they nicked someone else's; or
2) The village was previously known by a more dreadful name, and settled on a less offensive name. I just wonder what it was previously known as...
Suggestions on a postcard... |
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| 913427. Sat Jun 02, 2012 5:00 am |
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| ViscountGrey wrote: | | ... (Bottom being the old word to describe the area set aside for Longbow practise). |
As is the word Butts, which appears in quite a few location names in the Peak District area. Interesting. |
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| 913434. Sat Jun 02, 2012 5:16 am |
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| Posital wrote: | | tetsabb wrote: | |
The thing that concerns me about this pic - don't get me wrong, the people are just fine - it's the fact that it's been changed.
You can see that a "Cocking" sticker has simply been plastered over another name, which leads me to two possibilities:
1) The people of Cocking couldn't afford their own sign, so they nicked someone else's; or
2) The village was previously known by a more dreadful name, and settled on a less offensive name. I just wonder what it was previously known as...
Suggestions on a postcard... |
It seems to have been known by that name for centuries. Link |
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| 913582. Sat Jun 02, 2012 1:55 pm |
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| Strawberry wrote: | | It seems to have been known by that name for centuries. Link |
Discounting the possibility of sign stealing - take it from me it's hard to steal little ones.
It must mean that option 2 is true and the previous name was so dreadful that they had to expunge it from all records...
Intriguing... |
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| 'yorz
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| 913587. Sat Jun 02, 2012 1:58 pm |
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| Whatever it was, it ended with 'ON'. |
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| 913616. Sat Jun 02, 2012 2:55 pm |
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| I notice the next village south is Singleton. A Cocking-up of the signage, perhaps? |
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| 913617. Sat Jun 02, 2012 3:00 pm |
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| Plausible, but I see a distinct 'mid-vertical' shadow where the begin letter is, so I think the first letter ain't an S. |
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| 1247727. Mon Sep 04, 2017 11:58 am |
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| Bolton, Lancs has it's fair share of bizarre names i.e. Doffcocker, Ruins, Montserrat, Lecturers Closes and Oaken Bottom |
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