I am delighted to get 49 posts in a day from a new thread, although a few were mine.
It took a minute for the penny to drop reading Petra's last post, maybe too early in the morning. But it reminded me there is a large town in France called Condom.
Full Version: Where Would You Rather Not Live
QUOTE(petrat @ Mar 6 2007, 11:50 PM) 
I watched a house hunting in France programme yesterday and the couple were being shown around a property in a place called St Jean Le Thomas.
condom - yes, I'd forgotten that one.
We recently spent a few hours in Le Crotoy- which struck me as a rather unattractive name for what is quite a pleasant and unspoilt little fishing village.
Since were now on French ones, there is '####y-Poville' just north of Rouen !
Ah, caught out by the automatic censor.
The first word is pussy with the second letter changed to an i.
Ah, caught out by the automatic censor.
The first word is pussy with the second letter changed to an i.
There's a place in Durham called "Wide Open".
OK weve had four pages of suggestions , which is the best ?
I vote for my own 'Windpassing'
I vote for my own 'Windpassing'
There is a place in Cambridgeshire called Six Mile Bottom. Apparantly there was a rather 'large' lady lived there a few years ago - bet you can't guess her nickname... 
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QUOTE(fsharpminor @ Mar 7 2007, 11:17 AM)
OK weve had four pages of suggestions , which is the best ?
I vote for my own 'Windpassing'
You could start a poll ...
Nobody seems to have mentioned Staines yet
QUOTE(skylark @ Mar 7 2007, 11:34 AM)
QUOTE(fsharpminor @ Mar 7 2007, 11:17 AM)
OK weve had four pages of suggestions , which is the best ?
I vote for my own 'Windpassing'
You could start a poll ...
Yeah but Im unsure how to do it .
QUOTE(fsharpminor @ Mar 7 2007, 11:44 AM)
QUOTE(skylark @ Mar 7 2007, 11:34 AM)
QUOTE(fsharpminor @ Mar 7 2007, 11:17 AM)
OK weve had four pages of suggestions , which is the best ?
I vote for my own 'Windpassing'
You could start a poll ...
Yeah but Im unsure how to do it .
Try reading this thread:
Creating a poll
Look forward to seeing your choices
QUOTE(fsharpminor @ Mar 7 2007, 11:17 AM)
OK weve had four pages of suggestions , which is the best ?
I vote for my own 'Windpassing'
(Psst, guys, don't look now, but that dude over there is voting for his own wind passing)
QUOTE(sonataform @ Mar 7 2007, 02:01 PM)
QUOTE(fsharpminor @ Mar 7 2007, 11:17 AM)
OK weve had four pages of suggestions , which is the best ?
I vote for my own 'Windpassing'
(Psst, guys, don't look now, but that dude over there is voting for his own wind passing)
Surely I'm allowed one vote myself ........ and on my thread too.
At least it has cuased some amusement , if a little rude. (I hope)
QUOTE(fsharpminor @ Mar 7 2007, 02:03 PM)
Surely I'm allowed one vote myself ........ and on my thread too.
At least it has cuased some amusement , if a little rude. (I hope)
Oh yes - I was just trying to make it slightly ruder
Clap Hill!
Actually, I'm just getting these from our local weather forecaster who one late Friday night did the local forecast with "suggestive" place names on the weather map. Cheeky girl.
see mrbouffant1.blogspot.com for more details..
As it happens, I'm not far from Horne...
Actually, I'm just getting these from our local weather forecaster who one late Friday night did the local forecast with "suggestive" place names on the weather map. Cheeky girl.
see mrbouffant1.blogspot.com for more details..
As it happens, I'm not far from Horne...
QUOTE(nicki_flute @ Mar 6 2007, 04:56 PM)
QUOTE(fsharpminor @ Mar 6 2007, 12:06 PM)
I was reminded the other day, when we first moved to Surrey/Kent borders in 1988, we viewed a house in Pratts Bottom. I think we discounted it simply because of the name of the place.
Near to us here now we have Greasby.
But my favourites are Windpassing (at least three of these in both Austria and Germany), and Titz, also in Germany.
For a road name there is Butt Hole Road in Conisborough near Doncaster, and Butt Hole Lane in Shepshed , Leics. (I am sure our Leicester friends will confirm).
Have you come across any funny placenames or road names?
I live near Shepshed, but never actually been. Will ask a friend who lives there. Fluteandbassoon will probably know.
Yep, I can confirm that Butt Hole Lane definitely exists - its just a few metres from mine and FAB's school... Have to pass it to get to the town centre. You'd also kind of have to pass by it if you wanted to get to the church, so the regular churchgoers here are probably used to the sight of it - unless they take the detour around! I don't know if anyone actually lives up there or if there are just a bunch of abandoned houses though!
~Wobby~
QUOTE(LizzieT @ Mar 7 2007, 11:42 AM)
Nobody seems to have mentioned Staines yet
My husband used to joke that the local Scouts were the only ones in the country allowed to have Stain(e)s on their uniforms. They are not allowed to any longer as the district name has been changed to Spelthorne.
There's a Titsey Hill a few miles down the road
Ah - I'd forgotten that one, Maggie!
There's a road called 'The Butts' in Westbury and 'Slag Lane'. Also 'Ticklebelly lane' is somewhere in town, but I'm not sure where.
Yes, Wyre Piddle is not far from us too. I reckon I wouldn't want to live in Amish country in the USA at a place called Intercourse. 
Beverley.
Beverley.
I simply wouldn't want to live anywhere that was TOO FAR from someone I liked . . . 
never mind the name of it.
never mind the name of it.
I've never fancied living in 'Lower Slaughter' in the Cotswalds
There is also a p***ole in the Chilterns
and a Tw**t on Orkney
There is also a p***ole in the Chilterns
and a Tw**t on Orkney
QUOTE(Oddball @ Mar 8 2007, 09:34 PM)
There's a road called 'The Butts' in Westbury and 'Slag Lane'. Also 'Ticklebelly lane' is somewhere in town, but I'm not sure where.
I cant find 'Ticklebelly Lane' on Microsoft Autoroute. The nearest it came up with was 'Tickleback Row', which is just out of Bracknell on the north side and parallel with the A3065 Maidenhead Road.
I drive past Terrible Down once a month, mind you there was a tragic accident there recently involving an exploding firework factory and the deaths of two firefighters, so its well and truly earned its name.
I had my photo taken by Sausage Gully in Australia. There were a few choice Gullies there I seem to remember!
Apparently the better off people in Streatham (south London) refer to it as St. Reatham. And Clapham is pronounced "Clahm".
I know someone who lives at:
Cottage Hill Cottage
Cottage Hill Road
Cottage Hill
Ambs
x
I had my photo taken by Sausage Gully in Australia. There were a few choice Gullies there I seem to remember!
Apparently the better off people in Streatham (south London) refer to it as St. Reatham. And Clapham is pronounced "Clahm".
I know someone who lives at:
Cottage Hill Cottage
Cottage Hill Road
Cottage Hill
Ambs
x
QUOTE(Amber @ Mar 14 2007, 01:16 PM)
Apparently the better off people in Streatham (south London) refer to it as St. Reatham.
Inspired by this, a friend who lives in Stockwell refers to it as St. Ockwell.
QUOTE(Amber @ Mar 14 2007, 01:16 PM)
And Clapham is pronounced "Clahm".
Either that or "South Chelsea"
QUOTE(Deborah @ Mar 14 2007, 01:24 PM)
QUOTE(Amber @ Mar 14 2007, 01:16 PM)
Apparently the better off people in Streatham (south London) refer to it as St. Reatham.
Inspired by this, a friend who lives in Stockwell refers to it as St. Ockwell.
QUOTE(Amber @ Mar 14 2007, 01:16 PM)
And Clapham is pronounced "Clahm".
Either that or "South Chelsea"
QUOTE(ianporsche @ Mar 14 2007, 06:46 AM)
I've never fancied living in 'Lower Slaughter' in the Cotswalds
Or indeed Upper Slaughter.
QUOTE(sarah-flute @ Mar 14 2007, 01:46 PM)
QUOTE(ianporsche @ Mar 14 2007, 06:46 AM)
I've never fancied living in 'Lower Slaughter' in the Cotswalds
Or indeed Upper Slaughter.
but are we sure that is slaughter as in killing or is it some corruption of s.... & laughter - could be a very jolly place
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