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  1. nickyb

    nickyb Well-Known Member

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    Motherwell - Gherkin **

    ** Other pickled cucumbers are available. This is also the name of a ugly building in London, referred to by the heir to the throne as a 'carbuncle'. This is of course a misnomer as a carbuncle is a buniony thing and not similar to said building
     
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    Gherkin herring **

    ** other oily fish are available. For the moment anyway. Catch one now whilst stocks last!
     
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    herring wherefore
     
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    Wherefore - Brother **

    ** Other Japanese printers are available
     
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    brother otherwise
     
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    Otherwise - Fotheringhay*

    * - other 12th Century Castles may appear, but only this one can claim, by hook or by "crook" <whistle>, to be the birthplace of King Richard III
     
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    Oooh Crookback <ok>

    Fotheringhay - Gopher **

    ** Other little furry animals are available, as are colloqually named dogsbodies in any organisation

    ps...Lamby...why are you not joining in...on second thoughts don't tell us :)
     
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    Gopher Rutherfordium **

    **other Transition elements are also available. See your local moonlighting
    chemistry teacher, who is just trying to make ends meet, for details!
     
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    Rutherfordium - Sutherland *

    * - other local government areas in Australia may appear later in the thread......
     
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    Sutherland - Sherwood **

    ** Other ex Spurs and Villa managers are available. Also known as the home of Robin Hood, and the Sheriff of Nottinggam Forest - Brian Clough
     
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    Sherwood wherefore **

    ** other archaic Shakespearian terms stand like greyhounds in the slips…
     
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    Wherefore - Hertz **

    ** A measurement of electromagnetic waves as invented by Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. He is also credited as being the founder of the eponymous car hire company. It must be pointed out that this latter information does not originate from a reliable source.

    Other car hire companies are available
     
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    Hertz Hertzsprung **

    ** one other astrophysicist was available to help formulate the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram to help predict the correlation between the mass and life-cycle of stars. Only up to 1957 though.
     
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    Tee hee

    Hertzsprung - Herzegovina **

    ** After the Bosnian War in the 1990's large parts of the country came under the control of the Croat republic and to cut a long story short became the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
     
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    Herzegovina - Hercules*

    * - the son of Zeus and the mortal woman, Alcmene. As opposed to Harold Steptoe's horse...... <laugh>.
     
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    Hercules - Herz Grog **

    ** Other novels by the Noble & Pulitzer Prize winning author Saul Bellow are available. The subject matter of the book has nothing to do with the celebrated German film director Werner Herzog
     
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    Herz Grog - Herbivore*

    * - meat eating animals not included
     
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    Bad SP should have been Herzog

    Hwrbivore - (S-) Hertongosbosch

    No other reason but for 50 odd years the name has always been with me since getting marooned there on a train, in a snowdrift in 1959, next stop should have been Amsterdam.
     
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    Hertongosbosch - Heroines*

    * - so many to chose from including Violette Szabo GC, Special Operations Executive
     
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    Heroines - Hereward (The Wake) **

    ** Other 11th Century Resistance Leaders (against the Norman invaders) are available, although none other are believed to have invented the alarm clock
     
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