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Post by robotsmfc on Feb 13, 2008 23:32:40 GMT
Middelfart, Denmark stop
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Post by ambersalamander on Feb 15, 2008 18:14:06 GMT
There is a book I know rather well, called Far from Dull. This book consists entirely of photographs of signposts with silly place names on them. These are all British, and include Nasty, Twatt, Cuckoo's Knob, Drinkers End (signpost all bent out of shape), Chipshop, Dull (of course) and may others. Lovely book
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Post by ojiveojive on Feb 15, 2008 18:45:21 GMT
I have a book somewhere called 'Cyclists Please Dismount' which is full of photos of stupid signs, but is probably far duller than 'Far From Dull'.
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Post by robotsmfc on Feb 16, 2008 0:56:54 GMT
I have a book on file called "Signspotting" of a similar nature and of course "The Meaning of Liff" and "Deeper Meaning of Liff", making use of odd place names to express meanings that there are not specific words for. stop
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Post by boroeagle on Feb 16, 2008 9:34:41 GMT
From the edge of kent, Pratts Bottom must rate hightly, along with Badgers Mount! ( mount what I have no idea??)
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Post by ambersalamander on Feb 18, 2008 19:05:11 GMT
The Liff books, my dear Robot, are some of my favourite books ever!
I even caught myself doing a spot of woking earlier.
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Post by robotsmfc on Feb 18, 2008 21:09:31 GMT
Unfortunately as a robot it is impossible for me to experience woking. I do posess a bartisbley though just in case any other robots come over and I'm forced to serve them the best oil. Even machines have to keep up appearances! stop
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Post by ambersalamander on Feb 19, 2008 19:27:48 GMT
Well make sure you don't subject yourself to an attack of Sutton and Cheam then
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Post by ojiveojive on Feb 19, 2008 23:14:14 GMT
woking? bartisbley? Sutton and Cheam?
Am I suffering from dyslexia? What the eff are you two talking about?
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Post by malxscfc on Feb 20, 2008 16:38:22 GMT
From the edge of kent, Pratts Bottom must rate hightly, along with Badgers Mount! ( mount what I have no idea??) Badgers, obviously! There's also a Pett Bottom near Canterbury (where James Bond was brought up btw.)
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Post by ambersalamander on Feb 20, 2008 22:08:53 GMT
woking? bartisbley? Sutton and Cheam? Am I suffering from dyslexia? What the eff are you two talking about? Sorry, sweetie. I had a copy of the Deeper Meaning of Liff, a lovely book that was written on the principle that there are far too many common experiences in life that we don't have a word for and ought to, and too many words that spend their time cluttering up signposts without actually doing anything useful like meaning something. Thus, they decided to combine the two, using place names to describe everyday experiences, in quite amusing ways. "Woking" is a word meaning something like "standing around in the kitchen trying to remember what you went in there for" "Sutton and Cheam" (although the borough is now just called Sutton, it used to be the borough of Sutton and Cheam) is a term to describe two different types of dirt. Sutton is the dark dirt that ALWAYS gets onto light coloured clothing, and cheam is the light coloured dirt that, without fail, finds its way onto dark clothing. I don't know if I can quote this word for word as I no longer possess the book, but I think "anyone who has ever found Marmite stains on a dress shirt or seagull goo on a dinner jacket a) knows all about sutton and cheam, and b) goes to some very strange dinner parties." As for t'other, I can't remember so I shall pass the baton to yon robot. Or I happen to know Martello possesses a copy
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Post by robotsmfc on Feb 21, 2008 17:05:16 GMT
woking? bartisbley? Sutton and Cheam? Am I suffering from dyslexia? What the eff are you two talking about? Sorry, sweetie. I had a copy of the Deeper Meaning of Liff, a lovely book that was written on the principle that there are far too many common experiences in life that we don't have a word for and ought to, and too many words that spend their time cluttering up signposts without actually doing anything useful like meaning something. Thus, they decided to combine the two, using place names to describe everyday experiences, in quite amusing ways. "Woking" is a word meaning something like "standing around in the kitchen trying to remember what you went in there for" "Sutton and Cheam" (although the borough is now just called Sutton, it used to be the borough of Sutton and Cheam) is a term to describe two different types of dirt. Sutton is the dark dirt that ALWAYS gets onto light coloured clothing, and cheam is the light coloured dirt that, without fail, finds its way onto dark clothing. I don't know if I can quote this word for word as I no longer possess the book, but I think "anyone who has ever found Marmite stains on a dress shirt or seagull goo on a dinner jacket a) knows all about sutton and cheam, and b) goes to some very strange dinner parties." As for t'other, I can't remember so I shall pass the baton to yon robot. Or I happen to know Martello possesses a copy > Bartisbley (n.): A humourous device, such as a china horse or small naked porcelain infant which jocular hosts use to piss water into your Scotch (or in the case of my dinner parties Oil) with. stop
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Post by ojiveojive on Feb 21, 2008 17:10:18 GMT
Ah yes, I have come across this phenomenon before, my memory is full of craters, or is that critters? I don't know, it could be Jarlsberg or Gouda, or kinda soft and mushy, like peas. Where was I? Who am I? What am I doing here? Oh the clouds of illusion.....
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Post by ambersalamander on Feb 21, 2008 20:58:09 GMT
Oh yes, now I remember. There is an illustration on that page, if memory serves.
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Post by robotsmfc on Feb 25, 2008 20:02:53 GMT
Oh yes, now I remember. There is an illustration on that page, if memory serves. > Of a Bartisbley. stop
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