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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.
Manningtree
A suitable place to build a tree house.

Farleigh Wallop

Farleigh Wallop (pr. farly wollup) To hit a cricket ball a bloody long way Piddlehinton
Sorry

Piddlehinton
Having parked in a lay-by, to walk inordinately far through the bushes in search of a place to take a leak where you will not be observed from the road.

Cranstackie

A small building which appears to consist entirely of corners, whether viewed from inside or outside, and generally resembles a cottage for the more architecturally challenged kind of witch.

Mallaig

An old Lancashire dish - a luxurious pudding made of milk, lard, and slightly off eggs. Utterly revolting.

Bloxham
A pharmaceutical trade name, ca. 1950. When you went abroad in those days you always took these little pills with you. You know what the water's like in those places.

Leatherhead

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.

Istanbul

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.

Strabane

(pron. St. Ra-barney.) The patron saint of punch-ups.

Hever

A particularly attractive lady, from the expression "Wouldn't 'hever' out of bed!"

Torlundy
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.

Tipton
The experience of suddenly finding oneself under a great big pile of something.

Foots Cray

Ronnie & Reggie's personal cobbler.

Fitzpaine
The discomfort endured by a woman who is convinced that her size 8 feet will go into size 6 shoes.

Sgiogarstaigh

The feeling you get when taking over half an hour to wake up following a night out on the piss.

Clovelly

Attractively overspiced.

Snoqualmie

the gauge used to define the quality of snow in different areas around the world. eg. wet-snow (uK), powder snow (New York)......
Some mothers do 'ave 'em. Try Crowborough
An alternative for 'coven'

Pimlico
This is best not discussed in a public forum where children may accidentally let their parents see them reading it

Northington

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.

Tadcaster
[Deek] I don't think you've quite grasped the idea of this game

Tadcaster

A person who fishes for tadpoles.

Wroclaw

The ancient right to ignore laws when they obviously don't apply to you.

Anglesey

What a Tadcaster aspires to do some day.

Malvern

Are we limited to UK place names?
[LotUS] Not at all.
Er, yeah, OK, sorry,

Malvern
A person who lives in a shopping mall. (that's better, but the Viking stuff was quite good.)

Skegness
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".

Alpe Duez
The money owed for use of a mountain in Europe

[Bigsmith]I agree, next time there's a game slot available, we should try it for real

Verbier

A person who uses too many verbs in conversation or writing. verby, verbier, verbiest.

[Bigsmith & Gusset] There is always Tor and Lundy's brothers, Lon and Don.

Catterick
Something that started out life as a cat basket and has been unravelled, most probably but not necessarily by the cat, enough that it now resembles an extremely disorganised bundlle of straw.

Wagga Wagga

A dog whose enthusiasm exceeds his coordination, to the point where he will fall over from over-vigorous tail wagging.

Walla Walla

Exclamation of French origin, uttered on completion of numerous tasks (walla, walla). Popularised by waiters in East London hotels.

Stoke Bruerne
A commercial colour palette consisting of shades of brick, mud, charcoal, steel, slate, stone, and dark smoke, giving a feeling of old-fashioned industrial vigour and nostalgia for grinding poverty, and a turning away from modern technology. Matching motifs are belching smokestacks, minehead machinery, cobbled streets, and muted brass bands in the distance. Stoke Bruerne has been scheduled to be the fashionable colour scheme for clothes, home furnishings, and mobile phones in Autumn 2006.

Deopham (pron. Deef'm)

(This is the link I meant to use, not the ICC.)
A rather large rancid piece of meat from the belly of an old sow

Deepdale

'Carry On' actor Jim's younger brother

Okehampton
Linford Christie

Noss Mayo
New brand of low-fat salad dressing

Camborne
To lie on one's back and float gently down the river, wherever the currents and eddies may take you.

Ratnapura

A butter-like substance made from rats, used as a skin conditioner, lamp oil, bearing grease, moustache wax, or eaten as butter spread on crisped rat skins.

Omsk

Omsk is the fighting stance adopted by 2 Bull Elephant Seals before doing battle. Also the slang for the pose adopted by Tina Turner before launching inot a rendition of "Simply the best"

Earby

A rare stinging insect that makes it's home inside the aural canal of larger animals. Generally only detected as a quiet buzzing.

Moscow

Resentful at the existence of people who are younger, happier, and wealthier than you will ever be.

Minsk

The pinching sensation in a delicate location caused by a pair of stretch underpants which fitted perfectly when bought but which, ten years and twenty pounds later, are now at the limit of their elasticity.

Frimley

That piece of a sticky price tag that simply cannot be removed from a purchase when you are trying to wrap it as a present for someone.

Crudwell

An oil rig.

La Rochelle
The stage name of a female wrestler (lit. "The Rock-ess") who performed in the Paris vaudeville at the turn of the last century.

Portumna

The slight hesitation before saying "Yes" to another glass of port, composed in varying parts of politeness, greed, embarrassment, and fear of being pulled over by the police on the way home.

Denio

Material for making bootleg designer jeans (Kevin Klein etc)

Newport Pagnell
The aftertaste that comes from drinking fortified wine before it's properly matured

Basingstoke

That inexplicable feeling of utter desolation and loneliness.

Sherston

An intense sensation of memetic isolation or disconnectedness provoked by the realisation that everyone has been playing a game, singing a song, or dancing a dance which you have been entirely unaware of.

Clackamas

A selection of bell hammers ( or collection of clacks) as used by campanologists to creat different sounds using the same set of bells!

Minsk

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