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Shitterton named most unfortunate place name in UK
Scotsman ^ | August 15, 2012

Posted on 08/18/2012 3:24:01 AM PDT by Kukai

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To: Kukai

I was in Cornwall last May and there’s a town called Mousehole. Not pronounced that way though...more like Mozzle. And one huge disappointment...not everyone in Cornwall speaks with the stereotypical Cornish accent. In fact, I only heard a few Cornish natives who sounded like Long John Silver. Drat. By the way, Cornish pasties are tremendous, and the best fish and chips in the world is at an inn called The Britannia near St. Austell.


21 posted on 08/18/2012 6:03:38 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Verginius Rufus

And there’s one in Austria called “F..king”. No, not farking or funking. The sexual connotation. The town sign is stolen quite regularly.


22 posted on 08/18/2012 6:08:17 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Former Proud Canadian
Good grief!

Imagine being the head waiter at the Big Bone Lick Inn

23 posted on 08/18/2012 6:10:52 AM PDT by mitch5501 ("make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
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To: Kukai

I would have expected it to be , first, Brokenwind ... followed closely by Shitterton.


24 posted on 08/18/2012 6:36:42 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: Moltke

Fun discovery I just made: If you enter “Stadt Effing” (”Stadt” being Austrian for “town”) in Google Maps it takes you to F-ing, Austria!

Also, there’s a number of Effinghams in the US...


25 posted on 08/18/2012 7:06:13 AM PDT by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: Kukai

I live on Brown st. in......!


26 posted on 08/18/2012 7:17:11 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Ax

“There is a village in Yorkshire called Blubberhouses.”

Yes there is. On the A59 about halfway between Skipton and Harrogate.


27 posted on 08/18/2012 7:18:55 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Kukai

Of course there were other places in the U.K. that they were too embarrassed to even mention:

Hickey-on-Butox
Exwyfe-off-Cliff
Emerod, Throbs.
Aynall, Bleeching
Peedofyle on Chylde
Direa
Queensroids
Buggerroff
Lynchwogs
Dogshiate


28 posted on 08/18/2012 7:30:21 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Kukai

Just think how residents of our 7th planet feel....


29 posted on 08/18/2012 7:51:17 AM PDT by mikrofon (Shitterton all over)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

There’s a Tickle C—t Creek somewhere back east, I think in Virginia.


30 posted on 08/18/2012 9:02:25 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: Kukai

Intercourse or Bird In Hand, Pa.


31 posted on 08/18/2012 9:45:33 AM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: muir_redwoods
Athol Massachusetts is tough if you lisp.

Is that where Barney Frank will retire?

32 posted on 08/18/2012 9:50:27 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (FUMR)
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To: Kukai; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
The residents of this Austrian village feel their pain.


33 posted on 08/18/2012 10:12:07 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Kukai
“But it isn’t a midden or shitheap now. It is a perfect rural hamlet with thatched cottages and idyllic Dorset countryside.

It's well-fertilized, this we know.

34 posted on 08/18/2012 12:51:40 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: COBOL2Java

I understand he visits often


35 posted on 08/18/2012 1:42:02 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Legalize Freedom!!)
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To: Kukai

Okay, am I the only one with XTC’s “Mayor of Simpleton” playing in my head?

“...I may be the mayor of Shitterton, but I know one thing and that’s I love you....”


36 posted on 08/18/2012 1:46:11 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: PLMerite

Did you do a tour at MHS? Not many Yanks would know about these spots.


37 posted on 08/18/2012 2:45:02 PM PDT by Ax
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To: Slings and Arrows
And there is this town in Michigan that freezes over every year......


38 posted on 08/20/2012 4:07:39 AM PDT by fredhead (It's my Herbie year...check out the number on the side of the famous VW.)
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To: fredhead

They called it “Hell” because “Detroit” was already taken.


39 posted on 08/20/2012 11:41:29 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

I see your Big Bone Lick and raise you a Humptulips Washington.


40 posted on 08/22/2012 4:33:56 PM PDT by irishtenor (Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)
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