THE BRITISH THREAD II

Izzie wrote:

We were talking about names yesterday elsewhere - some of the names in Oz are fab...

Wagga Wagga - Wonwondah - Yackandandah - Yoweragabbie - Beerburrum just to name a few.

Burrumbuttock.

My brother lives in Yackendandah.

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dadpad wrote:

Izzie wrote:

We were talking about names yesterday elsewhere - some of the names in Oz are fab...

Wagga Wagga - Wonwondah - Yackandandah - Yoweragabbie - Beerburrum just to name a few.

Burrumbuttock.

My brother lives in Yackendandah.

Hey DadPad

Burrmubuttock. That's a great name.

There is a village near me called "CRAPSTONE" which ended up featuring on an advert for where a car had broke down - with Vinnie Jones.

Kinda put the village on the map ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ_l1pU5mII
Very Happy

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very good spendy.

There's a village in Essex called Ugley. They twin with Nasty in Hertfordshire. And there's the Ugley Nasty bike run every year. I'm not going on it after last year's experience.

Thanks izz me is well.

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I've been to Upper Cwm-twrch in Swansea.

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I've been to Paradise Street
(and Love Street)
But I've never been to me.

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Grape Street in Manchester (and streets of the same name in other places) used to be called Grope Street and were frequented by prostitutes.
The names were bowdlerised, probably in early victorian times.

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I knew a pub or two called the Grapes. That explains quite a lot McT thanks.

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McTag wrote:

Grape Street in Manchester (and streets of the same name in other places) used to be called Grope Street and were frequented by prostitutes.
The names were bowdlerised, probably in early victorian times.

I should perhaps follow the German Grape Road one time.

Oops Embarrassed

- it's the German wine route (or wine road/"Weinstrasse")

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Yeah but that used to be Weibstrasse and that's where the German officers crossed the Rhein.

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McTag wrote:

I've been to Paradise Street
(and Love Street)
But I've never been to me.

he he he

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My friend died on Sunday (secondary from breast cancer). Funeral tomorrow, she was only 45. Expect it to be really harrowing. That's my second friend to die from breast cancer in two years...

Got absolutely no faith in the cancer services in Manchester.

x

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Steve 41oo wrote:

very good spendy.

There's a village in Essex called Ugley. They twin with Nasty in Hertfordshire. And there's the Ugley Nasty bike run every year. I'm not going on it after last year's experience.

Thanks izz me is well.

I've always like Locking Stumps (nr Warrington)

It makes me think of amputee wrestling.

x

(hope that's not un-PC)

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not un pc at all smorgie

very sorry to hear about your friend.

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Yeah, bummer, Smorgs.

I have found the cancer services in Manchester excellent, however.

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McTag wrote:

Yeah but that used to be Weibstrasse and that's where the German officers crossed the Rhein.

I mean Rhine.

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McTag wrote:

McTag wrote:
Yeah but that used to be Weibstrasse and that's where the German officers crossed the Rhein.

I mean Rhine.

Two versions of the words of that song here

http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/english/armentir.htm

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I need some help chaps.

I've been trying to research - and my internet connection is iffy - Croke Park.

I'm going to a concert there in June, is Dublin centre near Croke Park? Do I need a passport to travel to Dublin? Can anyone recommend a good hotel near Croke Park?

I'd be grateful.

x

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If you are flying, some airlines will insist on you having a passport but any photo ID (like driving licence) will do.

By ferry you don't even need it.

Croke Park is not very far from the centre of Dublin:

Look here, then zoom out:

Croke Park

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The only thing I know about concerts at Croke Park is that Barrythemod and Dorothy Parker have been wetting themselves with excitement about an appearance there by the little chap formerly known as Prince.

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This little story appeared in the melbourne Age today.

The village of Lunt is debating changing its name because vandals keep altering the signs at the town entrance.

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When I went to Dublin, once, like Frank Harris was invited to every posh dinner party, once, according to Oscar Wilde, I slept on the seats at the airport rather than stay in any hotels.

I did see Dylan sing Drifter's Escape though.

I remember also that the stewardess on the flight offered me a boiled sweet in case the altitude dried up my throat which was very considerate of her I must say after some of the things I've been through.

And I sat on the stool they say JJ used to sit on in Mulligan's.

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