An old favourite from the Douglas Adams stable, well-known to anyone familiar with Pants MC. The game of giving dictionary definitions to place names. Please define the place provided by the previous player, and then post one of your own.
Raak - A river crossing guarded by a fierce ugly female troll.
Fukuoka
Rosie - To hell with your yellow pigment!
Woolfardisworthy
Sir Henry - Clothing material put aside for a particular and well deserved recipient.
Bristol ImNotJohn - The weight-throwing competition in
The World's Strongest Man Tissington
Raak - One of the two sides (the other being called
Tissnington) in a dispute that has degenerated into exchanges of "Tis!" and "Tisn't!" Hansard, 6 December 1878: "Uproar in the House, followed by Tissington-Tissnington that continued for fully twenty minutes."
Poznan
Software - Asserting the affermative to noe's grandmother.
Purton
Rosie - Trade jargon, referring to the price of bulk industrial chemicals, eg methanol is about £200 Purton.
(Softers) 'Oo's this noe
, then? Noe needs to know. :-)Mortlake
Software - Yorkshire dialect meaning: "There is still a considerable amount of time before the final whistle."
[Rosie] it were just a tpyo, mate.Blunsdon
Raak - A cock-up, a hash, a pig's breakfast, as in, "You made a right Blunsdon of that, didn't you?" Also, the act of removing with extreme prejudice the person responsible for such an event, or a person marked for such removal. The word comes from Viscount Blunsdon, eldest son of Lord Cox-Bramley, who, rightly fearing that his heir lacked the business acumen to manage the family estates at such time as he might inherit, attempted to train him up by setting him to such tasks as managing the piggery, inspecting the drains, and collecting rent from the tenant farmers, but he displayed a complete lack of competence and initiative at everything his hand was set to. It was during the last of these appointments that he met an untimely end at the bottom of a well. Foul play was never proved, Lord Cox-Bramley's more industrious second son took his place in the line of succession, and everyone was satisfied.
Riveaulx
Sir Henry - Norman word - the acts of removing permissions
Horsted Keynes plump - A new development of small fields built on a grid layout for race horses which will be available as soon as the unsightly houses on the site can be demolished
Lambeth Mr J - Affectionately named ewe.
Chesterfield Software - Named after the famous revolutionary meaning "The place where terrorism is carried out" The final truncation being largely due to the slurring applied by George Dubya
Westonbirt
Raak - Someone who gives directions in terms of compass points, disregarding the existence of walls, buildings, railway lines, rivers, oceans, and all the other obstructions in the places where the roads aren't, that make it a physical impossibility to "go west for a few miles, then bear north, and you can't miss it".
Trabzon
Robin - Expression uttered by northeners whenever Rab is seen posting here.
Blakedown
st dogmael - The Japanese equivalent of the AA.
Leighton Buzzard
Rosie - University Challenge contestant with slow reactions.
Louth
Raak - A gum disease of horses.
Snape
Rosie - Very simple quick-fire upper-class card game.
(Raak) Horrible, but good. :-)Stoke Mandeville Dujon - The position accorded to new arrivals in Hell which involves keeping the fires burning.
Hindhead
Raak - A comic jape which involves thrusting the victim's head into the fundament of a horse.
Ploufragan
Botherer - Corruption of
Plough for a Gran, 18th Century Agricultural competition in which first prize was an elderly relative.
Wyre Piddle Blob - Molten plastic found inside overheated electrical equipment.
Bothenhampton
Raak - A town-twinning arrangement that absolutely nobody cares about, not even the town councillors who performed the ritual. (From
Böthen, a stereotypical name of a small village in Germany, and
Hampton, the same in England.)
Abruzzi
Puckoon - A nasty/painful dark mark under the skin.
Medellin
Rosie - Getting your sticky fingers into the drug trade.
Bovey Tracey
Chalky - The flamboyant and slightly camp uncle who made a fleeting appearance in the original TV series of
Thunderbirds.
Ampleforth
Irouleguy -
Lancs. dialect Euphemism for an overweight bridge player.
Heckmondwyke Raak - Someone who heckles and, as the Scots would say, has his gas put on a peep by the wit of the performer's response, is said to be
heckmondwyke. Etymologically, there is buried in the history of the expression a derogatory reference to oral sex.
Potters Bar
Botherer - When a snooker player inadvertantly targets the wrong colour, he is said to be suffering from
Potters Bar.
Bude stehvelo - - the mild mental confusion experienced when confronting foreign plumbing for the first time
SANAIGMORE Raak - A "snymer" (to suggest its correct pronunciation) is someone who delights in vexing other people by having a surname that no-one can spell from hearing it.
Mornington
Botherer - Something that stehvelo's foreign plumbing would struggle with.
Crescent, IO Tuj - A sort of curvy shape. Didn't you know tat, Botherer?
*Sharpens axe* Any objections? Dujon - Yes. We await your move.
Botherer - [Tuj] Anyone who sees my wardrobe knows that I know tat.
nights - do it, do it, do it, do it...
Tuj - Botherer] Frantastic.
Audience -
*shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Tuj*
This is the end of the line. There is no more.