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Tring!
Are there any others?
I am going to Tring! today. I expect I'll bump into its most famous resident: Graham "three yellows" Poll.
Sir C
10-24-2017, 09:17 AM
Tring!
Are there any others?
I am going to Tring! today. I expect I'll bump into its most famous resident: Graham "three yellows" Poll.
Was he the one they used to call, 'The Thing from Tring', or 'Scholesey's Dad'? If so, I saw hm one in a bar in Weymouth whilst out drinking with Dorset Gooner. True story.
Bangkok!
Tring!
Are there any others?
I am going to Tring! today. I expect I'll bump into its most famous resident: Graham "three yellows" Poll.
Blimey... This really is scraping the barrel in terms of post quality.
Blimey... This really is scraping the barrel in terms of post quality.
Yet it is still better than any of yours.
Burney
10-24-2017, 10:14 AM
Tring!
Are there any others?
I am going to Tring! today. I expect I'll bump into its most famous resident: Graham "three yellows" Poll.
I've always like the sound of Wabash! Indiana.
Of course, we all know the only UK place name to have an actual exclamation mark, don't we?
Sir C
10-24-2017, 10:16 AM
I've always like the sound of Wabash! Indiana.
Of course, we all know the only UK place name to have an actual exclamation mark, don't we?
Westward Ho!
Stupid fúcking name for a place. Town. Whatever.
Burney
10-24-2017, 10:22 AM
Westward Ho!
Stupid fúcking name for a place. Town. Whatever.
Yes. Not to be confused with this, of course...
767
...which is a Westwood Ho'.
Pat Vegas
10-24-2017, 10:24 AM
I can't think of any.
I am way off form and jet lagged and slept 1 hour in the past 48 hours :-(
how about Shap which I think is up north.
Burney
10-24-2017, 10:31 AM
I can't think of any.
I am way off form and jet lagged and slept 1 hour in the past 48 hours :-(
how about Shap which I think is up north.
Indeed. It's between Cockermouth and Carlisle - quite close to Egremont.
Sir C
10-24-2017, 10:36 AM
Indeed. It's between Cockermouth and Carlisle - quite close to Egremont.
But, crucially, it doesn't sound like what it is, so I can't accept it as onomatopaeic.
Pokster
10-24-2017, 10:36 AM
Indeed. It's between Cockermouth and Carlisle - quite close to Egremont.
I like the name Bedlam, a little village near Harrogate
Indeed. It's between Cockermouth and Carlisle - quite close to Egremont.
There are two Shaps? The one I know is on the A6 south of Penrith. It has no petrol station. :-(
Also Egremont is south of Cockinmouth, not between it an Carlisle. I fear your compass is unwell today.
Luis Anaconda
10-24-2017, 10:46 AM
There are two Shaps? The one I know is on the A6 south of Penrith. It has no petrol station. :-(
Also Egremont is south of Cockinmouth, not between it an Carlisle. I fear your compass is unwell today.
No petrol station, eh? That's the Shap of things to come really
Sir C
10-24-2017, 10:49 AM
dundrum!
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it doesn't sound like what it is!
it doesn't sound like what it is!
Drum is well onomatopoeiaic imo. And dun is a drummy sound too.
Dundrum!
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I was there on Saturday night, 3 pints of Roundstone and some tapas.
Olé.
:sombrero:
I was there on Saturday night, 3 pints of Roundstone and some tapas.
Olé.
:sombrero:
Sounds like it should be in the six counties to me. Like Ballymacash.
Sounds like it should be in the six counties to me. Like Ballymacash.
There is a load of them - Co Down, Tipperary, Dublin.
:nod:
Tring!
Are there any others?
I am going to Tring! today. I expect I'll bump into its most famous resident: Graham "three yellows" Poll.
Wetwang
Richard Whiteley was its honourary mayor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetwang
Herbert Augustus Chapman
10-24-2017, 11:28 AM
Clap 'em
err .. I shall leave immediately
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