#4469861 - 04/10/19 09:35 PM
Re: The Brits will always beat the US in this
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They forgot Minge Lane! Not too far from me too. I may pop over there one day and see what the crack is.
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#4469911 - 04/11/19 01:04 AM
Re: The Brits will always beat the US in this
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Where's the forum nanny filter when you need it. Wheels
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#4469937 - 04/11/19 09:53 AM
Re: The Brits will always beat the US in this
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They forgot Minge Lane! Not too far from me too. I may pop over there one day and see what the crack is. A lad who worked for me had a girlfriend who lived in a flat there, and moved out fed-up due to all the 'cracks' when she gave here address! There are a few round here. Dogbutt Lane North Piddle. (I live adjacent to Piddle Brook, aptly named as it is fed by run off from the sheep fields around here.) In nearby Worcester and many other cities in England, at least up to the Civil War, I believe, there was a 'Gropec*nt Lane' where the bawds and whores plied their trade in the Stews and Brothels, and the purveyor of Merkins plied his prosperous trade. Also consider 'Tickle Cock Bridge' in Wakefield.
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#4469955 - 04/11/19 11:50 AM
Re: The Brits will always beat the US in this
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Etymology given is interesting..... As far as I know here in the Marches it's archaic meaning was a long narrow ditch, from much further back than given origin. As in " Our Lengthsman has been requested to fettle our minge"
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#4469957 - 04/11/19 11:55 AM
Re: The Brits will always beat the US in this
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As in " Our Lengthsman has been requested to fettle our minge"
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#4470012 - 04/11/19 07:38 PM
Re: The Brits will always beat the US in this
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Beachy Head sounds like some fun down by the waves.
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#4470014 - 04/11/19 08:20 PM
Re: The Brits will always beat the US in this
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Three words: Bird in Hand, Pennsylvania. Which would be innocent enough if it weren't about 12 miles from Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Which is only a dozen or so miles from Blue Ball, Pennsylvania.
I think we Yanks can keep up.
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#4470025 - 04/11/19 09:14 PM
Re: The Brits will always beat the US in this
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1. Climax, New York: A little hamlet in the town of Coxsackie (they're kidding, right?). There are also Climaxes in Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan (two of them!), Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
2. Rough and Ready, California: This tiny mining town once voted itself out of the Union, and then back in again. 3. Bumpass, Virginia: Bumpass is actually named for a famed family who lived in the area, from the French, Bon Pas, meaning "good step." 4. French Lick, Indiana: The hometown of famed basketball player Larry Bird. 5. Intercourse, Pennsylvania: The publishers of Eros Magazine once tried to get mailing privileges in this…interestingly named town (mainly for laughs, we guess). 6. Spread Eagle, Wisconsin: This little town gets its moniker from a series of lakes that, from an aerial view, look like the aforementioned bird. 7. Cumming, Georgia: Notable residents of Cumming include musician Zac Brown and actress Kelli Giddish. 8. Beaverlick, Kentucky: Beaverlick was originally spelled Beaver Lick, but came to the modern spelling by 1900. 9. Blue Ball, Ohio: Originally named Guilford, illiterate stagecoach drivers kept missing the town, leading the townsfolk to hang an actual blue ball as a marker. I guess no one saw the joke? 10. Busti, New York: Get your head out of the gutter. It's pronounced bust-eye. 11. Buttzville, New Jersey: As of 2010, this tiny town has only 146 residents. Really, who would move there? 12. Erect, North Carolina: Erect is located near the "North Carolina Pottery Highway" (you thought it would be near something naughty, didn't you?...Me too).
13. Horneytown, North Carolina: Just a short 26 miles away from Climax, NC! 14. Hookersville, West Virginia: No word on how many of Hookersville's residents actually practice the world's oldest profession.
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#4470031 - 04/11/19 10:28 PM
Re: The Brits will always beat the US in this
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...and people thought Bum F___, Egypt was bad.
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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