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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.
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The madness of the long-distance walker.

Vladivostok

The reason that your car won't start and needs spending £300 to get it running again.

Langwathby

auld scots/golf: a par 5 over 560 yards on a links course.

Eglwswrw

Either
1. The only sound one is capable of the morning after a night clubbing.
2. The noise generated by a small child when confronted by Brussels sprouts.

Canewdon
A secluded place by the bank of a river in the grounds of a Canadian university where elderly faculty go for nude sunbathing.

Sligo

Shorthand domestic phrase, as in "that's the front door - sligo, or will you?"

Stoke Mandeville

A free sample offered by a drug dealer to a new client. (Basically meaning 'It's grass - on the house, man').

Shetland

Old Scottish. Being in that state of badly needing a poo but having nowhere suitable to do the deed.

Durham
Boiled ham that has started to turn a bright green colour

Portmulgrave

A formerly thriving coastal town which no longer has any reason to exist, having no significant trade, natural resources, historical remains, or scenic vistas, nor being on the way to anywhere else. The East Anglian coast contains many portmulgraves.

Auchtermuchtie

The traditional cry of someone whose hot teacup has overflowed while they were holding it.

Langwathby

An extra long napkin used on the laps of those who are prone to Auchtermucties.

Wauna

Like a sauna, but lukewarm and with considerably less steam. Generally used when it isn't cold enough to snow outside, either. Believed to be a peculiarly British invention. Angmagssalik
The unintelligable sounds made when you suddenly discover that the drink you've just had was a lot stronger than expected

Totford

Unable to pay bills, due to excessive procreation in recent years.

Egremont

A euphemistic catchphrase-type word for shit.

Pimlico

Posh alcholic ice-cream product.

Knokke-Heist
(German) A description for the *polite* type of bank job. The kind that DOESN'T blow the bloody doors off.

Brisbane

A cocktail of laxative products designed to clear out the most stubborn of bowels.....Also the slang term used for an out of work Bristish ex-pat forced to survive via the Australian social security system!
Sandbach
A quantity of builder's materials

Exeter
What was once a word meaning to dissuade the user from employing the letter 'd'. (Come on, think about it...) Pickering
Sorry, still getting used to this...
Disgusting habit involving klingon removal

Flookborough
A wart protruding downwards from a facial extremity by more than 4 millitres. Stanstead
The feeling you get when alone in the dark and see a shadow move... and then realise it's you own.

Gweek
Where Jonathan Ross goes on holiday

Crudwell

Any space where rubbish tends to accumulate and is too much trouble to ever clean properly: behind the cooker, underneath the wardrobe, and the entire interior of a family car.

Barrow-in-Furness

A hired gardener's excuse for the fact that, after you've left him to do a day's work in the garden, nothing appears to have changed at all apart from the fact that all the weeds are one millimetre taller.

Ankara

An area of land made available to those seeking sanctuary from the daily grind of life (or the tax man). The isle of man was once described as the great ANKARA of the northwest! Lords is also an ANKARA, but only when its raining and no cricket is being played.

Papworth

Nice teats.    I'm leaving, ... yes ... now, really, ... now .... *sound effect of door closing*

Fleetwood

North Country expression meaning to escape from the forest.

Hagley

Prone to bargaining

Bukit Timah
The hat placed by a beggar or street musician to collect donations.

Schleswig-Holstein

A type of Bavarian cow which produces cheese or cream straight from its "Papworths". Its hide is also much sought after for the production of wigs. The type used in court rooms!

Hexam

To cast an evil spell on others.

Kidderminster

A cathedral which serves only young goats. Missisippi
Missisippi
The spouse of a social drop-out or new-age traveller.

Brinksworth

One who never bargains, haggles or compromises, on anything. You cannot have a discussion with such a person, only a flaming row. (cf. Paisley, the opposite of Hagley (see above).)

Chewton Mendip

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