Oolite Bulletins

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

Makara, apparently I'm not authorised to see that picture. While not being feline, curiosity is indeed killing me!

It's working for me now - and was indeed worth the wait!



Edit: I've rehosted it - just in case:

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.

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."

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!

Good point, I should have anonymised those 'berliners'...

Kaks wrote:

Good point, I should have anonymised those 'berliners'...

Somehow they look a bit like a mutated trumble...

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Captain Berf wrote:

I thought it was an anti-Mickey Mouse campaign!