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No thats just the NRA trying to be hip and trendy manQuote:
Originally Posted by SolitudeRed
Not so much funny as unusual. Dolphins Barn and Coach and Horses in Tipp...
Horse and Jockey, not Coach and Horses.
Shag Harbour in Nova Scotia (Going there in a few weeks! ;) )
Tom Haggard in Wexford.
Termonfeckin Co. Louth
Was wondering about that. Does it actually count as being a place, or just a general term for the area around the hotel?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Is there somewhere called Twopothouse on the Cork to Limerick Rd?
Vague memory of laughing my hole off on the way down to a game a few years back.
Funny you should mention that as a mate of mine has christened the stadium at Lissywoolen ****S (The Wonderful Athlone Town Stadium) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by galwayhoop
I just read that a bit too quickly and thought you said your mateQuote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
had "christened" the stadium :eek:
Yeah - its near Mallow. I was at a wedding down there earlier this year.
I think its actually New Twopothouse - so I wonder where Old Twopothouse is?
:D
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Originally Posted by OneRedArmy
It is Sarah we are talking about so draw ur own conclusions!!! :p:D
Far be it for me to draw conclusions about a nurse :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
See ye on Friday :D
Yeah and u know ur welcome to stay at my gaff if urself, Yid, Rover & Ray want to. U mite get to meet Sarah's boyfriend too!
No, it's a proper place alright - old enough (pictures in the hotel of the "village" a hundred years ago, and it has a proper Irish name too ("An Marcach" - the rider). Strange one though, 'cos it seems to consist of the hotel, a tyre company and a shop. I think it was historically an important meeting point after the Thurles races. It may at this stage incorporate some houses which have strayed too far from Moycarkey and Twomileborris.Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
Always have a laugh at "Newbuildings" in Derry. Pike of Rushall is in Laois, and Turnpike is the village before Horse and Jockey.
Not a bad shout in it's own right. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
There's a place up the Comeragh mountains, into South Tipp I think, called Powers the Pot. Always made me laugh.
Gaylord, Michigan.
If anyone can tell me what famous person came from there without googling ill be impressed!!!
Is that where you live OSO? Is it your town?!
Someone to do with the Catholic Church. Am I on the right track
Its the smallest cathoic parish in America, I came across this in a quiz sometime back. Its the name Gaylord and priests that stuck in my mind.
As for whos from there I don't know?
StrangeIrish answers your last question. Claude shannon. We wouldnt be doing any of this if not for him!!!!Quote:
Someone to do with the Catholic Church. Am I on the right track
Its the smallest cathoic parish in America, I came across this in a quiz sometime back. Its the name Gaylord and priests that stuck in my mind.
As for whos from there I don't know?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon
I didnt know that, that may be true, but what i was refering to
Is there a sub aqua club in Muff?Quote:
Originally Posted by lofty9
:D:D:D
no but theres a scuba diving club.
Not me brother.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
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Originally Posted by First
Don't make me break out the monkey magic on you again:DQuote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Well now, what do we have here....:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Paddyfield
What about the village in Austria called F*cking?:eek::D:p
Nothing funny about Newbuildings unfortunately - bitter wee place. Great location to get your windows stoned if you're on your way back from a City game (usually with the Police watching and doing nothing to stop it...)Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
The genius who named it must have put his creative skills to work a few years later when naming the new bridge over the Foyle, errr - 'The New Bridge'...... ! :)
Steve AFAIK that has happened very rarely in the last 15 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Certainly was a problem in the early days.
Never thought about that being a funny one. I guess that's because most of my Mam's side of the family live there.Quote:
Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
Other funny ones in Wexford: Horetown, Kilmore, B@stardstown (already got a mention I know) and one that's not funny but got on TV3 news yesterday, Cleariestown, no sorry Cleriestown, no wait that's not it it's Clerestown, ah bugger we'll just spell it different on every signpost sure no one will ever notice... :D
despite being in Dundalk am sure this is a school quite a few of you would love to go to: http://www.louthvec.ie/go/schools-and-colleges/bush-post-primary/
Has definitely happened a couple of times in recent years as well ORA - as I remember it being in the news.Quote:
Originally Posted by OneRedArmy
Might even have been as recently as after the Cup Final last year
Just found this site with a list of rude place names in UK. http://gmaninc.blogspot.com/2005/08/...britain.html00
And finally found where I am gonna feel right at home, Titty Ho, Northamptonshire!
That was the Newbuildings pats supporters club...Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Glassamucky -Dublin
Keetmanshoop -Namibia
Nah. Time and again they tried to get ahead of our buses, but we just kept whizzing past them and on to the final destination.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Much like the Final itself.... :DCan't get that link to work MM ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
oh sorry
Do you have a link to that English site that would work ? I quite fancy the idea of tracking down some whackily named towns in EnglandQuote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
All you had to do was google it!:pQuote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Here you go- http://gmaninc.blogspot.com/2005/08/...n-britain.html
Do you honestly think anyone would google "gaylord"?!:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Mentioned ages ago!;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Thunderblaster
Well excuse me ! I thought searching on the Blogspot site alone for it was enough ingenuity, thank you.... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge
Some corkers in there - though a lot just refer to streets, lanes and 'passages' (snigger..)
They've put Muff down as Northern Ireland, the swines ! I've added a post to correct it - the first on there in 2 years ! Let's breathe life back into the rudest names site.... :)
That reminds me. There's a 'Milkmaid's Passage' in some park in London. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Not a place name, but in the underground in Stuttgart, there was a newsagents called "Yorma's"
There was a barn in Guilford, Connecticut called Insulting Manor. :eek::D
Try pronouncing this Anglesey village not far from Holyhead: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch!!:eek:
That's an interesting one - it's Llanfair (or Llanfair PG), but it got expanded about 100 years ago just to make it the longest place name in Britain. A complete tourist sop of a name.
Ugley in England is mentioned in that link. Remember seeing on Countdown one time that they have a Women's Institute. :p
I was in a pub there a couple of weeks ago. Can't remember the name of it. If you're coming from Kilmore you turn right off the main road and its on the left. All wooden inside with loads of antiques.Quote:
Originally Posted by passinginterest
Muireantown is spelled Muirntown on some signposts.Quote:
Originally Posted by passinginterest