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  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    This thread has really cheered me up. Keep em coming!
  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351

    Saffron Walden - a little-known 1930s Hollywood actress
    Kimbolton - her 1950s equivalent
    Drax - a Norse god
    Heckmondwike - a mighty Saxon warrior
    Stanstead Mountfichet - mayor of Stoke-on-Trent 1892
    You're Ugley (Essex), Nasty (Herts) - in fact, you're a F*****g (Austria) Basted (Kent)
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Turnham Green. I once knew a girl who could.
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    man_at_milletts said:

    Turnham Green. I once knew a girl who could.

    Oldham. I once knew a girl who would.
  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351
    Bryan_Kynsie said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    Turnham Green. I once knew a girl who could.

    Oldham. I once knew a girl who would.
    Feltham, too ....
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Finger lake in Canada - where 13/14 year olds hope to take their first date
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    You lot would like "the meaning of life" by Douglas Adams. There are two villages in Warwickshire (I think) called askhim Richard and ask him Bryan. Sounds like two office comedians daring each other to do something silly.

    I always thought Peasedown St John sounded like a retired, angry Major
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Pease Potage.
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,918
    Went to Peckham once but she wouldn't let me
  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    Ben Dover
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  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,040
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    None of you are playing properly. It has to be a two word name, and has to conjure up a picture of someone in your mind (literary character, movie star etc)

    Sorry @Leroy Ambrose

    How about those old time Scottish entertainers from Perth...Shaggy and Fanny Burn.

    In Hereford, you also have that long lost, brassy cousin of the Emmerdale favourites...Booby Dingle.
  • chappers
    chappers Posts: 242
    Drove through Germany and on the way to Dortmund a sign for, Wankum!
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    Not far from Indian Queens in oggyland is...

    Quintrell Downs, the Victorian detective and Goonhavern, where all the village idiots love to go on holiday
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    At the risk of being "Kevined" again as I haven't read the thread thoroughly.......

    On topical note, there is a town in Orkney called Twatt.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    AddicksAddict said:

    Sandy Beds

    Dildo in, I think, Austria

    Cumming, Georgia

    the dildo is more likely in Jordan.
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    edited August 2015
    Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham, reminding us of our famous promotion year 2015/2016
  • pickwick
    pickwick Posts: 1,649
    There is also a F*cking in Austria, and just south of Intercourse is Fertility.
  • pickwick
    pickwick Posts: 1,649
    And it is Shingay-cum-Wendy...
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,378
    GlassHalfFull said:


    Saffron Walden - a little-known 1930s Hollywood actress
    Kimbolton - her 1950s equivalent
    Drax - a Norse god
    Heckmondwike - a mighty Saxon warrior
    Stanstead Mountfichet - mayor of Stoke-on-Trent 1892
    You're Ugley (Essex), Nasty (Herts) - in fact, you're a F*****g (Austria) Basted (Kent)

    Actually I'd say kimbolton (Been there) sounds more like an eighties popstar - stone washed jeans and power perm
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    shine166 said:

    The first line of my previous addres was ' 1 Blue Ball '

    A famous female newsreader lived (maybe still does) at One Upper Butts....
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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    man_at_milletts said:

    Turnham Green. I once knew a girl who could.

    A friend of mine was told by his father when young that Turnham Green was where leaves were sent in autumn to get them ready for spring.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    This is me next to, what evoked memories of @cafcdave123 , Pussaaaaay!

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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,474
    edited October 2016
    Boothby Graffoe...........near Lincoln.

    Kirby Misperton........Yorkshire.
  • cherryorchard
    cherryorchard Posts: 1,721
    All in Norfolk:
    Little Snoring
    Great Snoring
    Stiffkey

    and more locally a sign that always raises a smile: Loose Bowls Club
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,956
    Limpley Stoke - Anti-hero of romantic victorian novel, who ultimately proves a disappointment to the heroine.

    (It's in Wilts)
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Cunty, Pernes-les-Fontaines
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    Ashby de la Zouch (don't expect too much)
    Ashby cum Fenby
    Toft next Newton (and his son)
    Newton by Toft ..both nr Lincoln
  • heckington_reds
    heckington_reds Posts: 727
    Me and the better half live not to far from ...... ...antons gowt... Honest
  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    Dunkwa-On-Offin

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