And while I'm at it, hyphenated descriptions are not appropriate names. Like "Newbiggin-by-the-Sea," good lord. The town is called Newbiggin, which is ridiculous enough as it is. Why add a lame subtitle into the actual name? I don't live in Montreal-the-Inhospitable-Tundra, or Montreal-the-Land-of-Persecuted-Anglophones.
A brief list of silly names:
Pratt's Bottom
Wiggleswick
Gigglesworth
Wetwang (!!!)
Nempnet Thrubwell
Upper and Lower Peeover
Six Mile Bottom
And the world-famous:
And while I can't deny the embarrassment of my home state of Pennsylvania's twin towns of Intercourse and Blueball, at least they're not resoundingly silly like Wiggleswick or Nempnet Fucking Thrubwell.
6 comments:
This is the Stupides page. You are making fun of the names of cities. Because Guess what I think you're STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
y'know.
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, i live near here, and despite most of the inhabitants being cousins its quite a pretty place. There is another newbiggin in england, so the "by the sea" was used to differentiate, perhaps before post codes were used. Alot of our place names have been around before the USA existed, so they may sound a little strange to someone from one of the colonies. I think you missed the best one from the list, on my drive home i go past a place called "Wendys Snatch".....
A little late, I know... but Llanfairwhatever isn't in England.
yeh, Llanfair..... is in Wales NOT England, and this blog is so racist!
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