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    crumble bungle Well-Known Member

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    A really boring thread on where place names originate from.
    For example:- Bury, coz that's where they bury people.
    Give it your worst shot.
     
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    Portsmouth.

    Cis when the sailors got pissed on port the whores mouth was a port.


    True story.

    Maybe.
     
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    Kilmarnock.
    Someone bumped their ma off with a knock to the head.
     
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    Exeter..Derived on the pulling out after intercourse with a cow.
     
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    Dundee. A famous murder in the hamlet of Dee.
     
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    Jarrow, coz there were a load of jars lined up in a straight line.
     
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    Wycombe. Where a wannabe footballer set of from in search of glory
     
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    Glasgow because there's a good chance of being glassed if you go <whistle>
     
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    Oxford. The shallow part of the river where the cattle crossed,
     
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    Pleasanton, CA

    Because we're all pleasant ****s.
     
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    Seahouses cos it`s beside the sea and there`s houses what people live in and that.
     
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    Pennywell, its a hole in the ground where the over 40 comrades go to spend one.
     
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    Seaham - 'cos all of the lasses that you sea are ugly pigs :emoticon-0138-think

    <sorry> Seaham
     
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    quality that one, im glad you enlightened us :emoticon-0110-tongu
     
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    Pennywell - 'cos folk hoy pennies into wells and wish that they didn't live there <whistle>
     
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    Newcastle, because once upon a time it had a new castle, now its just a dump with fat ugly bints getting pissed and its where horse punchers live.
     
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    Bristol - 'cos the lasses have sizeable assets <whistle>
     
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    Littlehampton. Named after 100 piglets.
     
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    Bath, apparantlies they only have 1 bath between the lot of em??
     
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    Littlehampton - named after the dwarfs that live there <whistle>
     
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