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Article #477Re: Small town names (was: yank jokes)
From: Mark Goodge
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 00:00
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Suzanne Doig wrote: > > My personal favourite is Ugley (Essex, England) > > And yes, it does have a branch of the Womens' Institute. :-) It gets better. Not far from Ugley is another village, called Nasty (just across the county border, in Hertfordshire). Giving rise to the all-time classic headline in the local newspaper: 'Nasty man marries Ugley woman' In Lincolnshire, there is a village called Mavis Enderby, not far from another village called Old Bolingbroke. A rather creative graffiti artist spruced up a roadsign reading 'to Mavis Enderby and Old Bolingbroke' by adding 'the gift of a son'. Mark Goodge
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1064f0,119296e68795cc98 X-Google-Attributes: gid1064f0,public X-Google-Thread: fa3c5,119296e68795cc98 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa3c5,public X-Google-Thread: 10ba21,119296e68795cc98 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ba21,public X-Google-Thread: fb030,35b44d102ef5b026 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb030,public X-Google-Thread: 1051ef,119296e68795cc98 X-Google-Attributes: gid1051ef,public X-Google-Thread: 1042ac,119296e68795cc98 X-Google-Attributes: gid1042ac,public X-Google-Thread: 10900b,119296e68795cc98 X-Google-Attributes: gid10900b,public From: Mark Goodge <msg@message.org> Subject: Re: Small town names (was: yank jokes) Date: 1996/10/07 Message-ID: <3259137D.1590@message.org> X-Deja-AN: 187324865 references: <9b7cc$a1d32.24d@HERMES> <515s75$kl0@news.Hawaii.Edu> <518afa$grv@rex.sfe.com.au> <9177cc$91120.ae@HERMES> <3248D747.4783@ibm.net> <5294uv$1rgo@ausnews.austin.ibm.com> <324F9C0F.3ACE@pristine.com.tw> <32530143.1E14@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: getting round to it.... mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: msg@message.org newsgroups: eunet.jokes,rec.humor,alt.tasteless.jokes,alt.nuke.the.usa,aus.jokes,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.australia x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I)