Sadly the places I'll be passing in June are a bit less bizarre, though still distinctly unusual - Mudgley, Sand, Little Ireland, Mark, Bawdrip, Chedzoy - but sponsor me anyway... www.justgiving.com/nevillemorley1
Friday, May 15, 2009
News from Nowhere
Of course, as well as fictional places, and fictionalised versions of real places, there are also real places that sound as if they are fictional, or at any rate ought to be. I seem to come across a lot of these when cycling in Germany and thereabouts: highlights include Rottenegg, the twin Austrian villages of Oberfucking and Unterfucking, and of course Tittmoning...
Sadly the places I'll be passing in June are a bit less bizarre, though still distinctly unusual - Mudgley, Sand, Little Ireland, Mark, Bawdrip, Chedzoy - but sponsor me anyway... www.justgiving.com/nevillemorley1
Sadly the places I'll be passing in June are a bit less bizarre, though still distinctly unusual - Mudgley, Sand, Little Ireland, Mark, Bawdrip, Chedzoy - but sponsor me anyway... www.justgiving.com/nevillemorley1
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Sandra always gets the giggles when we go anywhere near Frickenhausen.
What? No love for Yorkshire's own Wetwang?
Mention of Wetwang reminds me of Nesselwang in Germany, and the neighbouring village of Wank... I'm sorry, it's been a long week, and I've fled upstairs to the computer to escape Cheaper by the Dozen, after Mrs Abahachi was traumatised by the combination of robot violence and dying cats on The Simpsons and insisted on having a 'nice' film on...
There's a village in Essex which used to be called Ugley but I think they've sanitised it now to Oakley.
I remember when I saw 'Cheaper by the Dozen, in 1950 I thought it was the funniest film I'd ever seen, not sure what that says about my adolescence. I watched it once on TV since and it was awful!
Of course this wasn't even the original Cheaper by the Dozen but the Steve Martin remake.
We always have a giggle that Blue Balls, Pennsylvania is not too far from Intercourse, Pennsylvania. And we also laugh at Buttzville and Belchertown. But we spend most of our time with a 6 year old boy, so surely we have an excuse.
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