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Some interesting place names and their meanings


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Aith (n)

The single bristle that sticks out sideways on a cheap paintbrush.

 

Fladderbister (n)

That part of a raincoat which trails out of a car after you've closed the door on it.

 

Grutness (n)

The resolve with which the Queen sits through five days of Polynesian folk dancing.

 

Skellister (n)

A very old solicitor.

 

From "The Meaning of Liff" and "The Deeper Meaning of Liff" by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd

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:lol: :lol: Those are great! Got any more?

 

 

There's loads. Get the books.

 

 

 

SKIBBEREEN The noise made by a sunburned thigh leaving a plastic chair.

 

SCRAPTOFT The absurd flap of hair a vain and balding man grows long above one ear to comb it plastered over the top of his head to the other ear.

 

KINGSTON BAGPUISE A forty-year-old sixteen-stone man trying to commit suicide by jogging.

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I wish he had included more Shetland place names.

 

I laughed so much at Skellister!!!!

 

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Skellister's a great one.

 

TOLOB (n.) (if du's auld enough tae remember da ridiculous spelling o Toab on da road signs) A crease or fold in an underblanket, the removal of which involves getting out of bed and largely remaking it.

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I wish he had included more Shetland place names.

 

I laughed so much at Skellister!!!!

 

F

 

 

Skellister's a great one.

 

TOLOB (n.) (if du's auld enough tae remember da ridiculous spelling o Toab on da road signs) A crease or fold in an underblanket, the removal of which involves getting out of bed and largely remaking it.

 

Yes. I can see definite parallels between the two.... :?

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