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[advwebsys]

can't resist - one more.....

in the pennsylvania dutch (amish) country outside philadelphia (it's not really dutch, it's actually deutsch, but we yanks clobbered it MANY years ago) you must drive through blue balls to get to paradise.

if blue balls is not a familiar expression in the uk, send email and i'll explain off line.

[fergusw]

One that always raises a smile for me is a small town in Aberdeenshire.

Lost

They have/had a roadsign pointing to Lost! Keeps getting stolen through. A favourite on Student walls apparently.

Another Scottish town that causes problems is

Avoch - small town on the Black Isle in the Highlands.

It's pronounced "och" - as in loch, however the number of couriers that end up asking for "a-votch" and getting bemused looks and mis-directed, is never ending.

[george]

Our dogiest was MGM Studios in Hollywood, the order turned out to be 100% kosher though, and the scarves were for use in the recent Pink Panther film.

We've a couple of regular customers from the Bronx, New York.

Funny customer name? Mr Snowball

[pinbrook]

In my first programming job I had a client, an eldery gentleman, by the name of Mr Richard Head, and yes you guess it, he insisted on being called Dick.

There were always sniggers in my office when I had to call him

[kathynewman]

That reminds me - when I was 17 I worked in an office and I worked in the Errections department!

The comments I got when I had to answer the phone "Errections, can I help you"

Kathy

[george]

That reminds me - when I was 17 I worked in an office and I worked in the Errections department!

The comments I got when I had to answer the phone "Errections, can I help you"

Kathy

Actinic Gold!

[GiganticDays]

Mrs GiganticDays went to school with a Nicholas Tart and a Russell Sprout

[jont]

Mrs GiganticDays went to school with a Nicholas Tart and a Russell Sprout

You have to admire Mr & Mrs Sprout for that one

[gabrielcrowe]

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...app=newmap.srf
Cockbush Avenue. UK

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...app=newmap.srf
Cock avenue. UK

http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=Crapo,+MD
Crapo Maryland. USA

A place called 'Monkeys Eyebrow' In Arizona, and apparently a place called 'Open Wide Dykes' near Carlisle. All real.

Who decides what to call these places?

and as for people...

My uncle is a librarian, and he actually laughed milk out of his nose, when he was told that he had to help register 'jesus christ' on the computer system for a new account.

*shrugs*

just informed: we actually had 'darth vader'.

someone had changed their name by deed poll. Fruitloops.

[Legends]

I was at school with a James (Jimmy) Bond and once after school (as you do when your 15) we were messing around and the police caught us and asked our names.

Any way they put us both in the back of the Panda car and it wasn't til my mum convinced them that I really was Ian Fleming and my friend really was James Bond that they let us off.

I can imagine how much fun it would have been if they had to actually write a report about the incident.

Also it kept my mum in stories to tell at Christmas get togethers for years

[acompton]

we actually had 'darth vader'

'Luke Skywalker' lives in a semi in Swindon. He had to sell his landspeeder recently as it wouldn't fit in the front garden.

Alan

[jont]

Just received this in the delivery instruction box :

"Use www.multimap.com with postcode to identify location of cottage. Please deliver to back door of property. If no-one present, please leave package in greenhouse and place delivery note in letter box attached to wall at rear of property near to back door"

... do you think they have had delivery problems in the past????

[acompton]

I've posted to
The Potting Shed
Hog Close Lane
(town withheld)

Its even on the postcode database.

Alan

[clefty]

My native Lincolnshire has its fair share of silly village names, my favourite being Mavis Enderby

There are some great ones here:

http://www.satiche.org.uk/satiche/sat-0332.htm

[Neilo]

Just sent out an order where the road name was "Burnt Dick Hill"

Ouch. Dread to think how it came to be called that.

Happy Christmas everyone.

Neil.