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.
Danno - The home-run boundary in the film
Field of Dreams, which would have been shot partly in southwestern England if the local lobby that had the region renamed had been successful. Not specifically mentioned in the film because of the obvious irrelevance of any part of the field more than five feet ahead while Kevin Costner is batting; cf. "Irrigationditchdugout," "Cowdroppingshomeplate," "Nameyourownagriculturalimplementpairedwithbaseballterm," and the particularly ornery "Bullpen."
Leeds
widey - Old English term meaning the meeting place of sheep.
Sandbach
ImNotJohn - A small Welsh bricklayer's mate.
Borrowash
PennyLane - To recycle the bath water, ie putting multiple children in the same bath then using the water to wash the pots afterwards. Also a slang term used for those dodgy memebers of society that pinch ladies underware from washing lines!!
Laxey
Bigsmith - The state of the "Ais Gill" (qv.) after six pints of Winter Warmer and a Dansak Madras.
Biblins
Raak - Multiple chins.
Pomerania
Bigsmith - Australian fascination with all things British, verging on the obsessive.
Down Hatherley
Rosie - Non-clinical depression, Yorkshire style, as in " . . .tha's lookin reet Down 'Atherley".
There's been some good stuff here recently, ignoring this one. :-)Sole Street
Puckoon - A thoroughfare in which most businesses are shoe markers or shoe repairers.
Cobblers
Sir Henry - Sorry - (one day I shall leave HTMHell)
Folkstone
Software - The average pitch of the human voice.
Stroud
Sir Henry - A noisy walking movement
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Dujon - Medical term: speech impediment.
Pontefract
Raak - A bridge that has become unsuitable for HGVs ever since one tried to drive over it.
Wenlock Edge
widey - The secret stash of nasal crumblies (Crows/Bogies) that children often collect under school-desks when a sleeve or handkerchief is not to hand!!
Bolton
Sir Henry - Attached by a mechanical device
[Major Dennis]'tis on the railway sign!
Wirral
Major Dennis Bloodnok, Military Idiot, Coward & Bar - A squirrel with a heavy cold.
[Sir Henry] It may be now, but my 3d (3 old pence) "Souvenir Platform Ticket" (148mm x 50mm) has it as one word. Also I seem to remember that the Guiness Book of Records, (Longest place name in the UK,) has it as one word.
Liskeard
Raak - Adj., descriptive of a beard that is impregnated with saliva, food, and drink, due to its impractical voluminousness and the messy eating habits of its wearer.
Gdansk
penelope - A badly perfomed galloping polka with a man who doesn't realise his own strength. Usually results in a sprained wrist.
Skegness
Sir Henry - The state of being skeggy
[Major Dennis] Aha - but go back a little more in time and it was called simply
"Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll"Devil's Dyke
Rosie - Only used as the past participle,
writtled, meaning old and decayed, like dried leaves etc.
Yeovil (Bloodnok) Llanfair PG is what the locals call it.
Software - Where all the cool dudes live.
Ashton Keyhes
Robin - Not got very far with cutting the grass.
Wookey Hole
Bigsmith - 1. The longest par five on any golf course in Somerset
2. Intimate part of large hairy lady alien's anatomy (coat!)
[Major D/Sir H] LPG?
[Softers] Best one for a while!
Widdenhill
Tuj -
No move, but just lurking and praising Software!
nights - RP reference to the stairs: 'tyme to clymb thee widdenhill to bedforsharr'.
[Bigsmith] no no no no NO!
Walcot
Raak - The proper term for a type of space-saving storage consisting of a curtain of fabric to be hung on a wall, into which are sewn many pockets for storing shoes and the like.
Bere Regis
Rosie - A more potent and tasty version of Lager-and-Lyme Regis.
Er, sorry about that.Fawkham
widey - Bernard Mathews latest TV dinner gimmick in the form of "under" Boiled Ham complete with plastic fork layed to rest in a styrafoam tray on a bed of dodgy cheese. The slogan runs along the lines of " If you can't be botherd with grilling and microwaving is not so thrilling then Fawkham!"............its bootifullllllllllllllllllllll
Denton
Sir Henry - As in 'the Den-ton precedent' - procedural point of law involving cast members of TV soaps and exceeding the speed limit.
Worthing
Raak - Geordie for "Cosa Nostra".
Bootle
Rosie - "Expenses" paid to rugby players in days gone by. (Raak)
Top drawer!Horwich
widey - A female Wizard that makes more money by selling her body than she does casting spells and making potions!
Diggle
Tuj - Dance involving shovels.
[Raak] Bravo!Dorking
Raak - Trainspotter hunting.
Sleaford
plump - A dramatic announcement made by a ventriloquist
Chagford
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.