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Makara
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by Makara » Sun Nov 29, 2009 6:08 am
Which brings us neatly to contender for most stolen roadsign in Britain...
Replacing this probably explains Kent's high council tax
Edit: Well - it worked this morning
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by Kaks » Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:58 pm
Makara, apparently I'm not authorised to see that picture. While not being feline, curiosity is indeed killing me!
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by DaddyHoggy » Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:42 pm
It's working for me now - and was indeed worth the wait!
Edit: I've rehosted it - just in case:
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by Disembodied » Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:55 am
There's a village near Kinross called "Crook of Devon". Legend has it that on the village sign, someone wrote "Twinned with Thief of Baghdad" underneath.
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by Killer Wolf » Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:49 am
this is a clip from a mail my mate sent me when we were discussing a similar theme of place names, tickled me like :-
"My mate, Rick, does a presentation with videos he edited, for unis etc on a variety of historical bits and pieces. One of them is placenames and how they change. there was a place called Dun, meaning hill, in the middle ages. It was abandoned and then rebuilt by people who didn't know the origin of the name, so being on a hill, for which they used the word Mow, they called it Dunmow. Same thing happened again, only this time they didn't know either original name's meanings, but being on a hill and being pretentious nurks, they called it Dunmow-on-the-hill. Imagine how ecstatic they were to find out that they lived in Hill-hill-on-the-hill."
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by DaddyHoggy » Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:19 am
Sounds similar to the disputed Torpenhow Hill (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpenhow_Hill ) made famous on QI.
A similar affect is seen in British River names since Tyne, Tees, Ouse, Esk are all old local dialect names for a river so we have
River Tees = River River, River Tyne = River River, etc...
And now it would seem, this off-topic, is now off-topic!
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by Captain Berf » Sun Dec 06, 2009 5:35 am
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by Kaks » Sun Dec 06, 2009 1:46 pm
Good point, I should have anonymised those 'berliners'...
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by Screet » Sun Dec 06, 2009 6:09 pm
Kaks wrote: Good point, I should have anonymised those 'berliners'...
Somehow they look a bit like a mutated trumble...
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by DaddyHoggy » Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:28 pm
I thought it was an anti-Mickey Mouse campaign!
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