LET IT NEVER BE SAID THAT THIS BLOG FAILS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PUBLICATION OF GREAT WORLD LITERATURE
(Thanks to Justin Barber)
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August 29, 2005
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Tomorrow!
Posted by: elle | August 29, 2005 at 02:53 PM
Yes, I think it is today.
Posted by: Brad | August 29, 2005 at 02:53 PM
Or is it the Day after tomorrow?
Posted by: Higgy | August 29, 2005 at 02:54 PM
Very odd - the MB just says "TODAY" and when you click the comments, you get the correct headline.
And FYI - I've been to St Mellons....
Posted by: Higgy | August 29, 2005 at 02:59 PM
you have to refresh the main page, i guess, higgy. i had typed in the word "TODAY" and then tried to backspace but somehow it posted instead. sorry!
Posted by: judi | August 29, 2005 at 03:02 PM
Yes, Higgy, but have you been to Back Passage, London?
Posted by: elle | August 29, 2005 at 03:03 PM
OK - I get how "Wetwang" made the Brit "rude" list - but what the heck's wrong with "Burke Street"?
Posted by: TCK | August 29, 2005 at 03:03 PM
also - I know people that would move to "Butt Hole Road" just cuz of the name
Posted by: TCK | August 29, 2005 at 03:05 PM
That's nothing. I believe Canada has a place called Head-Smashed-in-Bufflo-Jump. But this is truly some great literature.
Posted by: KOW | August 29, 2005 at 03:06 PM
Titty Ho!
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | August 29, 2005 at 03:14 PM
I take issue with their choice of number one (Cocks, Cornwall) on the grounds that it is not a double entendre.
It is, of course, a single entendre and quite outside the scope of a book that claims to chronicle the most double-entendre riddled localities.
As for towns with fun names, I'd head for Belchertown, NY (Motto: Hey! At least we ain't Fartsburg!)
Posted by: Greg | August 29, 2005 at 03:15 PM
TCK - to call someone a Burk(e) in Britain is to essentially call them an idiot - hence it made the list.
elle - I'm not touching your Back Passage (comment....)
Posted by: Higgy | August 29, 2005 at 03:21 PM
upper dicker, indeed. i like that one.
Posted by: queensbee | August 29, 2005 at 03:26 PM
How about Athol, Massachusetts?
Posted by: Stupendous Man | August 29, 2005 at 03:42 PM
*zips in*
I'm puzzled (what's new?) because I don't see where it says "TODAY"....
or am I just LTTG?
Posted by: Eleanor | August 29, 2005 at 03:47 PM
The book was created by Rob Bailey and Ed Hurts, who used to live in Lincolnshire.
Ed Hurts ... I think his brother Dick was in my high school English class. Although come to think of it, when the substitute called off the class list he was never actually there.
Posted by: Chianca At Large | August 29, 2005 at 03:48 PM
Greg - ever hear of another name for a rooster?
Posted by: jorgewfl | August 29, 2005 at 04:20 PM
I don't get why Lincolnshire is there.
How about Weed, OR?
Posted by: silver | August 29, 2005 at 05:17 PM
" Shingay cum Wendy,"? What ?
Posted by: Sean | August 29, 2005 at 05:56 PM
What puzzles me is that this was in the Scunthorpe Telegraph, but Scunthorpe didn't make the list.
Maybe they're working on the 200-name list?
Is there a definitive list like this for North America?
Posted by: jc | August 29, 2005 at 11:34 PM
I would rather go to Back Passage than Mudchute, but I really want a place in Twatt.
Posted by: bbescuela | August 29, 2005 at 11:48 PM
Anyone else notice that the article managed to publish the entire book? Way to sell!
Posted by: AlanBoss | August 30, 2005 at 01:09 AM
The kind of book I'd like to read while vacationing in beautiful Dildo, Newfoundland.
Posted by: Trish Redhop | August 30, 2005 at 09:31 PM
I live in Chagrin Falls (chagrin falls on anyone who does not vist this town) and there are many streets named after it (I would never be very happy liveing on chagrin road... though I do live off it)
Posted by: britta | September 05, 2005 at 01:21 PM
I live in Chagrin Falls (chagrin falls on anyone who does not vist this town) and there are many streets named after it (I would never be very happy liveing on chagrin road... though I do live off it)
Posted by: britta | September 05, 2005 at 01:54 PM