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Completely off topic.

Hans thinks you have a town with a long name in the Netherlands. HendrikIdoScheepsmanskinderenSandelingenAmbacht

But we have a longer one in UK.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

Daft init?

Ron

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Yes, that's another classic!
But I was wrong; the complete name is Hendrik-Ido-Oostendam-Schildmanskinderen-Groot-en-Klein-Sandelingen-Ambacht)
Now you again

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Hans your screws are here and will be in the post tomorrow.

Ron

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Errr....Ron, you need to get back into the garage, you've now got too much time on your hands!!! Up here in the grim north I'm sure we have a place called Eeeeebyekkythumpdonyerflatcapgetthht'whippetsleadgetyerclogsonanmunchyepblackpuddintekkincarenottospilliton yerwescott
I'll translate it if some of people daansouf cant work itout!

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This is the name of a town in New Zealand and this is supposed to be the longest name in the world:

Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukakapiki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­kitanatahu

This is how you pronounce it:

http://www.korero.maori.nz/sound/places/f-t-w-k-o-t-p-w-k-t-t.mp3
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Seems damn silly to me..The shortest place name in the UK is more sensible..and easier to remember...'Ae'..it's in Scotland by the way...Ian

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I live in a town called "Nagambieonthegoulburnhighwaynortheastvictoriaaustraliasouthernhemisphere"

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And I just live in plain old town named Enfield
With my No.2 pistol and soon to have a No.4 Mk1 rifle.

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We have a small town in Holland called "Enter" isn't that silly? It used to mean nothing.

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There's a village near me called 'Black Dog'....Ian

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Henk, there's a place in France called "Silly"..now that is silly!

Cheers
Pete

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We've also got "Grünkraut" here in Germany which always makes me wonder what he had been drinking. But probably he is still better off than "Sterbfritz"!


Pete

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We have a town called "Blue Ball" which is near a town called "Intercourse". Both are in Penssylvania.

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When I go to my mates place in Devon, I go through a village called "Nomansland"

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it was such a nice day i went out for a ride on my M20 to Holland without a passport it only took a few minutes to ride through the village

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Horror. Nomansland is in the New Forest......Unless there are two? Ron

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I used to pass through a town called "Cow Roast", a rather delicious name.....

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I would rather pass through a town called "Pork Roast"

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This is the church at Kuttekoven, the village next to where I live. For some reason the name always makes dutch-speaking visitors laugh. I don't know why. What's a 'kut' ?

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Even more completely off topic

In light of the British success in the Tour de France recently,
I thought you would like to see a rare photo I have of the 1940 one.

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Because it is Black & White, it is difficult to spot the yellow jersey...

Jan

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I see the bicicles are Dutch made maybe where this all stolen bikes from holland Gr. Theo

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The 1940 Tour de France did at least last a month, unlike 1940's Tour de Belgique and Ronde van Nederland.

Despite the Baedeker raids, Great Britain thankfully stayed off of the main continental tourist routes from 1940 - 1945. (We did have a surplus of American tourists though but they usually got a good thrashing at closing time !)

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Ron Pier
Horror. Nomansland is in the New Forest......Unless there are two? Ron


Ah ok Ron, there must be 2 then.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomansland,_Devon

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Horror. I think my pub is prettier than your pub

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/59875


Ron

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And you've got white horses

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Today I passed by 2 villages

Wargrave - nr Reading

brightwell cum sotwell - nr Didcot

The second beats all out, it must mean something to someone, or at least it must have had

It is almost rude

:-D

Job

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Just driven from Plymouth to Looe and gone through another village called No man's land in Cornwall

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even further west is a place called coswinsawsen...

it means the farm of the englishman...

kernow bys vyken

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