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  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,956
    KiwiValley said:

    Last one - Slough - it evokes a bloated corpse of a pig in some sort of fetid Dickensian sump

    That's because that is EXACTLY what it's like
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,956
    Idle jr has just started working in a pub in a little village called Cockpole Green. Clearly some sort of STD.
    The pub is called The Horns.
  • SilentAddick
    SilentAddick Posts: 1,603
    Bostonaddick said:

    Intercourse, Pennsylvania which is just down the road from blue ball, Pennsylvania

    Been there and it's populated by Amish people and their buggies!!!
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    There is a town in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania called "Intercourse".
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,617
    Sillybilly said:

    There is a town in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania called "Intercourse".

    Thanks Colin
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,837
    Places like Bagshot and Middle Wallop always remind me of the Two Ronnies, on the other hand......

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankers_Corner,_Oregon
  • Addickted2U
    Addickted2U Posts: 3,080
    Big William said:

    Places like Bagshot and Middle Wallop always remind me of the Two Ronnies, on the other hand......

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankers_Corner,_Oregon

    The United States Geological Survey classifies Wankers Corner as a "locale":[1] "a place at which there is or was human activity".

    Love it! So much activity the Geological Survey had to get involved!
  • milo
    milo Posts: 388
    I drove through a place called Battledykes in Scotland, it conjured up the image of 100 foot robot Amazonian lesbians with thick Scottish accents fighting it out to the death.

    Nice
  • cafcpolo
    cafcpolo Posts: 3,811
    I would drive past a pub every day on my way home from work, called The Sloop. Which despite being a type of boat sounds more like something discharged during afterbirth to me.
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    Indian Queens, sounds like it should be found in Lower Manhatten rather than Cornwall.
    Lovely song about it by Nick Lowe
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  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    Used to pass by Feltham Close in Hampshire(?) shortly after Nether Wallop on holiday as a kid.
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,378
    IdleHans said:

    KiwiValley said:

    Last one - Slough - it evokes a bloated corpse of a pig in some sort of fetid Dickensian sump

    That's because that is EXACTLY what it's like
    Yes i did pass through once... it felt like my consciousness was being shat on
  • Rossman92
    Rossman92 Posts: 3,650
    Bostonaddick said:

    Intercourse, Pennsylvania which is just down the road from blue ball, Pennsylvania

    Damn I was gunna say this lol
  • Rossman92
    Rossman92 Posts: 3,650
    Living in Wisconsin, we have a lot of cities with names of Native American/French influence that can be quite hard to pronounce

    Oconomowoc
    Ashwaubebon
    Sheboygan
    Lac Courte Oreilles
    Chequamegon Bay
    Kaukauna
    Kewaunee
    Manitowoc
    Trempealeau
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    I live close by Lake Minnewanka - wanka pronounced wonka apparently in old Native Indian dialect. Bunch of wonkas.
  • ilovelucy
    ilovelucy Posts: 220
    Skinners Bottom in Cornwall, near Ventongimps!
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Yorkshireaddick said:

    AddickUpNorth said:

    Village not far from me called Wetwang. Named after an incontinent earl apparently. Or maybe not.

    Are you in Beverley AUN?

    No, living in the historic Ryedale market town of Malton at the moment.
  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    Cockupbum, Mid Glamorgan
  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 980
    brogib said:

    Cockupbum, Mid Glamorgan

    Always thought that was on the Sussex coast
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    and who can forget Wetcock Innear?

    Not a place name but something that happened to "a friend of mine" in a seedy Swansea bar once.
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  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    The wicket keeper's Holding the batsman's Willy
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,042
    dogpat65 said:

    Everyone's favourite in donegal is the wonderful village of Muff just on the coast offers some brilliant water sports for the adventurous enthusiast.

    http://www.muffdivingclub.ie

    I can honestly say that I have been there. Great place :smile:
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    AddickUpNorth said:

    Yorkshireaddick said:

    AddickUpNorth said:

    Village not far from me called Wetwang. Named after an incontinent earl apparently. Or maybe not.

    Are you in Beverley AUN?

    No, living in the historic Ryedale market town of Malton at the moment.
    was in Malton (lovely town) last week at Eden Camp .. looked in vain for the Johnstone horse racing HQ .. passed through Wetwang on the way in and out ..
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    and who can forget Wetcock Innear?

    Not a place name but something that happened to "a friend of mine" in a seedy Swansea bar once.

    was he playing next to the glory hole?
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    cafcdave123 said:

    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    and who can forget Wetcock Innear?

    Not a place name but something that happened to "a friend of mine" in a seedy Swansea bar once.

    was he playing next to the glory hole?
    With his very own Wetwang
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,435
    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)
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,956
    How about the village of Leroy Ambrose in Dorset? Puts me in mind of a pedantic forum poster...
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Well to recap my two in the light of the rules clarification:

    Old Wives Lees is three words and thus void it would appear but nevertheless puts me in mind of a Stepford Wives scenario in a remote village.

    Huish Episcopi puts me in mind of a jovial pickwickian dickensian character spreading bon homie to all whom he encounters.

  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    Ponders End - a 1950s film where a character considers their mortality
    Elmers End - where children's books go to die

    Blandford Forum - a gentle old-fashioned cure for insomnia
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    Sandy Beds

    Dildo in, I think, Austria

    Cumming, Georgia

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