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Blue-Eyed BiPedal BookWorm from Betelgeuse (aka B4[insertpunhere]) Posted Dec 5, 2003
The Wombwell Golf Club is definitely a "tongue-in-cheek(?)" humour page. Someone is obviously 'having you on' with some overt innuendo. Good link; appropriate to the doings here. 
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anhaga Posted Dec 5, 2003
But they have a map of the course with links to photographic views of each hole.
It's a real golf course in the pictures. And there's a link to the "Wombwell Web" http://www.e-wombwell.co.uk/
It seems to be a real place, in South Yorkshire. I'm not sure that it really is a joke. I suspect that the Rumps were a couple once active in the Golf Club and they've sponsored two competitions. Unfortunate names.
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Blue-Eyed BiPedal BookWorm from Betelgeuse (aka B4[insertpunhere]) Posted Dec 5, 2003
Ah. Now I see... I clicked the humour link and wound up in the 'bedroom golf' parody. Yes, the rest of the site seems legitimate. The homour link is...quite!
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Blue-Eyed BiPedal BookWorm from Betelgeuse (aka B4[insertpunhere]) Posted Dec 5, 2003
In keeping with this thread, I should have at least stuck to the subject by posting another name that's suspect to innuendo or misinterpretation. I've thought, ever since I heard of the famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma, that humour can spring from cultural differences, too. Here in the US, anyone who doesn't listen closely could conceivably take his name as an 'ethnic taunt' deriding one's mother: "Oh yeah? Well...yo' Mama!"
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Lady Pennywhistle - Back with a vengeance! [for a certain, limited value of Vengeance; actual amounts of Vengeance may vary] Posted Dec 7, 2003
Speaking of culture differences - Moran is a rather common girl's name in Israel. I guess in the US it would sound a bit embarassing... same with Dudu (read: Doodoo), which is a short for David. 
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Tertonmike Posted Feb 21, 2008
I went to school with Philip Ennis - guess what he was known as?
I knew of a Conor O'Connor and an Alistair McAllister in the neighbourhood and my wife has allegedly met both Myles Long and Annette Curtin.
The Dutch politician Wim Kok always sounded to me like a scouring powder for an embarrassing and highly personal disease.
There used to be a journalist on the Dublin "Evening Herald" called Richard Balls.
Until not so long ago there was a business on an upper floor in D'Olier St. in Dublin, whose street-level nameplate read "J. Bite - Painless Ear-Piercing". What a come-on.
And my cousin used to have a work colleague named Gaye Hand. And I know of another Michael Hunt, who previously worked for a former colleague of my own.
It's endless........
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- 41: Blue-Eyed BiPedal BookWorm from Betelgeuse (aka B4[insertpunhere]) (Dec 5, 2003)
- 42: anhaga (Dec 5, 2003)
- 43: Blue-Eyed BiPedal BookWorm from Betelgeuse (aka B4[insertpunhere]) (Dec 5, 2003)
- 44: Blue-Eyed BiPedal BookWorm from Betelgeuse (aka B4[insertpunhere]) (Dec 5, 2003)
- 45: Lady Pennywhistle - Back with a vengeance! [for a certain, limited value of Vengeance; actual amounts of Vengeance may vary] (Dec 7, 2003)
- 46: Tertonmike (Feb 21, 2008)
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