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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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Large round tea bags made for groups rather than the individual ones

Podington
Podington is the temporary camp set up for the podingers who gather annually for the Great Pode Hunt. What the Pode is is a closely guarded secret.

Whauphill

A common athletic muscular strain believed to be one of the more easily curable causes of impotence.

Stoke Goldington
Very potent Ganja. It has 4 times the strength of "Skunk Weed" and can make all but the hardiest of users go blind.......Bob Marley used to smoke at least 7ozs of Stoke Goldington a day!!!

Tetbury

A French ostrich farm

Bexwell
A purported tourist attraction which consists of something rather uninteresting given a picturesque and largely fictitious historical background. For example, a natural spring in a corner of a field that someone put a wall around way back in 1932 and called "Beck's Well".

Dunfermline

The mystical art of laying out (lining out) any large sports arena, playing field. Once finished the head lines man will utter the mystical chant DONE FER MY LINE, which signals the job done and the area is then ready to play on...

Fleetwood

A type of mac.

Roxbourne

The principal activity in the Geological Maternity Ward.

Plymouth
A vocal affliction common among those who ply their wares in the street. To reduce the strain on their voices, they make as little use of the vocal articulatory apparatus as possible, reducing the words to barely recognisable grunts and moans.

Cornwall

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
Old English term meaning the meeting place of sheep.

Sandbach

A small Welsh bricklayer's mate.

Borrowash

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

The state of the "Ais Gill" (qv.) after six pints of Winter Warmer and a Dansak Madras.

Biblins
Multiple chins.

Pomerania

Australian fascination with all things British, verging on the obsessive.

Down Hatherley
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

A thoroughfare in which most businesses are shoe markers or shoe repairers.

Cobblers

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