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.
A slang term which is to football what "punch-drunk" is to boxing: minor brain damage inflicted by repeated blows to the head, in this case incurred particularly by aging centre-forwards from heading the ball too often. Particularly prevalent three or four decades ago, when the football was generally (a) heavier, and more importantly (b) more absorbent of water, therefore heavier still in rainy conditions, which was (and remains) most of the football season. Less prevalent now, for obvious reasons, and Gascoigne is *not* an example (almost never headed a ball in his life, he really *is* that dumb naturally.
a sort of hissed expletive made sotto voce when someone in your company is talking utter bollocks [eg. lunch with the boss and his wife] but it wouldn't be prudent to say so.
Was a small settlement established in the year 894ad by two viking invaders, Tor and Lundy. They agreed to name it after the both of them and Tor won the arm wrestle, giving him the right to have his name first.
When the viking town of TorLundy became a thriving metropolis, the founding fathers were continually arguing over who should be King. Yet again Lundy lost the arm wrestle and Tor stayed as King of TorLundy, which was then renamed Torlundy. Lundy took his friends and family and set off in search of somewhere new to build a settlement. They found a large open space and, upon seeing this, Lundy exclaimed "There's northing there, a whole ton of northing." The name stuck and the town of Northington was founded.
Description of the amount of incrustation on the gusset of well used underpants. (Deek) The viking stuff made me chuckle. However, I think you may have invented the whole new game of "How places got their names".