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Offline Go Richo 12

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Unusual town names
« on: October 21, 2014, 10:05:40 AM »
Howlong is one of the greatest town names ever.
Burrumbuttock is another favorite around these parts.

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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2014, 10:09:41 AM »
Humpty Doo gets my vote
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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2014, 10:11:54 AM »
My old man is from Tumbarumba.

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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2014, 10:36:32 AM »
My old man is from Tumbarumba.

Wasn't that a band? "I get knocked down and get up again"

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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2014, 11:15:19 AM »
My old man is from Tumbarumba.
Nice town,  been there many times.

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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2014, 12:38:44 PM »
My old man is from Tumbarumba.
Nice town,  been there many times.

There is a creek named after our family around there. We were the first or one of the first families to settle there  :shh

Edit: just found a lane named after us too there  ;D
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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2014, 12:47:16 PM »
Howlong is one of the greatest town names ever.
I love the town Smoko!
OER. Calling it as it is since 2004.

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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2014, 12:57:48 PM »
Bong Bong ! Now that joint is off it's head.... and as for Cockburn ? Well I aint touching that one.
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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2014, 01:45:34 PM »
Innaloo is a Perth suburb

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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2014, 01:59:51 PM »



A town named in honour of Shaun Grigg's running patterns:












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FJ is the only one that makes sense.

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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2014, 02:02:28 PM »



A town named in honour of Shaun Grigg's running patterns:



ahh the Loop, know it well ,great place to fish & mine salt !!

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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2014, 02:22:29 PM »
Humpty Doo gets my vote

Hey, leave my place out of this!!   :boxer


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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2014, 02:34:30 PM »
Anyone been to Austria?
stuffing's most famous feature is four traffic signs with its name on them, beside which tourists stop to have their photograph taken, owing to the identical spelling to the present participle and gerund of the English-language profanity stuff. One version of the sign features the village name with an additional sign beneath it, with the words "Bitte – nicht so schnell!" ("Please – not so fast!"). The lower sign—which features an illustration of two children—is meant to advise drivers to slow down, but tourists interpret it, in conjunction with the "stuffing" sign, as a double entendre.[11]
 
British and American soldiers based in nearby Salzburg noticed the name after World War II, and began to travel to the village to have their photos taken beside the signs while striking various poses. The local residents, the Fuckingers, were considerably bemused as they had not previously been aware of the meaning of their village's name when read as English.[8] Since then, the number of visitors to stuffing has increased, with the occasional visit by a tour bus.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/stuffing,_Austria
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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2014, 03:11:09 PM »
"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good...."

- Thomas Sowell


FJ is the only one that makes sense.

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Re: Unusual town names
« Reply #14 on: October 21, 2014, 03:25:16 PM »
So much fun to be had here !

Let's head down this dirt track >>



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