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For anyone interested, Murray beat Federer today in Abu Dhabi and will play Nadal in the final tomorrow.

Just thought I'd mention it in case anyones bored and didn't realise it was on as could prove a good game!

On the other hand - suggestions of amusing place names are welcome  :D

and Shakira was there, shes mighty fine

 Indeed...I thought we'd signed Scott Murray  :(

I would do a lot of mucky things to Shakira if I could get away with it.

Damn I thought it was a thread about Flight Of The Conchord's real star.

Fucking Sweaty

(awaits comment from Jan)

 ;)

Abu Dhabi has to be one of the most satisfying place names to say. Tegucigalpa being another.

 I like Eskilstuna in Sweden.

Present

But the best name ever (in my view, at any rate) is a little closer to home in East Yorkshire.  Holme-upon-Spalding-Moor is a tiny village (and ex-RAF station) between York and Hull.  I drove past there years ago and fell in love with the name there & then.

There's some cracking village names across these Isles... Quite a few up here.

Westward Ho! is the best name in the world

There's a village down the road called Fulking. Always makes me smile when I drive through it. Sad I know.

I drive through Duntish sometimes...its in Dorset and for me its always tempting to shave a tad off the righthand side of the D when driving past the Welcome to Duntish sign.

shave it?

 I used to venture into Sussex when I lived on the South Coast, and always had a smile at Didling and Cocking.

talking of Murray my sauces tell me (BBQ) that Scott Murray might be Danny boys first signing

Isnt there a Big Cocking and a little Cocking Reg?

Cue every footballer who has played for Wilson to be linked.

It was a hairy dunt.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: top notch axs

i bet u had a smile as u posted that :)

 I never looked that closely...I'm sure Sussex will know though.

There's a Cocking a few miles from Didling. Near Midhurst/Petersfield I think.

Upper Dicker probably deserves a mention too  :)

Edit: Sorry for hijacking the tennis thread Luci.

Edit part 2: Didn't read Regs post properly. Doh.

http://www.dribbleglass.com/Jokes/town-names.htm


Some crackers on here.

Fwiw murrey has bulked up a hell of alot which is helping his back and forehand shot no end. Worth a bet for a grandslam this year

or the death predictions ?

Like all Jocks he'll either drink himself to death or become a murderer. I've seen Coronation Street, Taggart and Rebus and I once went to Gretna Green.

Martock is a place name I like saying because it sounds Kiligon.I'm quite the nerd arent I.

I had a budgie but it died, whoah, I like pie, leggy leggy leggy leggy.......

 Not a million miles from Didling and Cocking in Sussex are also Strood Green, Balls Cross and Lickfold.  Impressive.

haha, it wouldn't be the TEF without a good hijack!
Plus, I've been entertained by some of those place names - Good work!

Isnt there a shitlington crags somewhere?  Yorkshire I think.

Drove through Upper Piddle on my way to Hereford earlier this year.

Locally to me in South Yorkshire I've always liked:

Peniston, and
Blubberhouses

Whereas I'm not keen on:

Carsick,
and Deepsick

I live near Wilsford Cum Lake  and Upper Backway.

I've always been slightly frightened of:

Thurgoland

which despite being between Sheffield and Barnsley always makes me think of somewhere that would be visited by a small group of explorers led by Doug Mclure in a 60's adventure film losely based on a novel by Jules Verne or Edgar Rice Burroughs.

I'm not sure what a Thurgo is but I'm imagining something like the Morlocks in the original 1960's version of The Time Machine.

Sandy Balls near Fordingbridge........

We have a Barton in the Beans and a Newton Burgoland up here.  I quite like Sheepy Magna, too.

Lunt...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584457/Village-of-Lunt-residents-tire-of-name-game.html

That's near Eyewell Wales and Tintinhull isn't it Yeovil?

You've got the "puddles" down Dorset way.

Tollpuddle (of martyr fame)
Affpuddle
Puddleton
and just up the road there's Troy Town.

Yatton Keynell (where my mum hails from) always gets a weird reaction when I mention that name. Yatton K is connected to Tiddlywink and not too far away from the village/hamlet/whatever of Shoe.

 You've also got the River Piddle or Trent in Dorset....so Piddletrenthide and Piddle Hinton.

 You must love Tollpuddle...have you ever been to the annual TUC sponsored festival?

Soggy biscuit?

I actually stayed in Tollpuddle for whole week once.  It was shit.  No Union cunts knocking around though, that would have livened it up a bit.

 You're crackers....

T

The Bard of Barking can be found there on an annual basis-he lives close by at Burton Bradstock

 Willey, on the A5 between Hinckley & Rugby, signposts continually disappear. Sheepy Parva next to Sheepy Magna

Yes but he's a cunt so he can fuck off.

Fair enough

Can you not see why the TU movement don't welcome you're lot as members?

Pratts Bottom should not be overlooked.

Hes actually a nice bloke I bumped into him there in the local shop, he lives just outside Burton near Shipton...I take our dog down the beach there as its only 12 miles from us here.

oh yeah I forgot I vote Nationalist.

Wouldn't to be anywherenear them anyway Lumps, they, like the Labour party, betrayed the people they were meant to represent so they can rot as far as I'm concerned.

Was it on Jackass that they stopped in a town called Mianus?

"oh look theres a truck in Mianus"

"Oh my god!! Whoopie Goldberg lives in Mianus"