A Conversation for Townies
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Divy Started conversation May 8, 1999
Are we talking about any British town, or just those in the provinces?
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Colin (The Happy Robot) Posted Jun 13, 1999
Well it seems to sum up Coventry dwellers pretty well.
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Queex Quimwrangler (Not Egon) Posted Jun 22, 1999
Specifically, I was thinking of Nuneaton.
But I wouldn't be at all surprised if it applied in other places.
Answers on a postcard...
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Colin (The Happy Robot) Posted Jun 29, 1999
Isn't that a bit inefficient? Espeically when I can just reply on this forum.
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Colin (The Happy Robot) Posted Oct 5, 1999
No I'm not, I'm just being my usual blend of sarcastic and ironic.
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Eli Towells Posted Oct 7, 1999
Shrewsbury has a splendid selection of Townies,
I like to call them mons, the study of which is
monism.
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Colin (The Happy Robot) Posted Oct 7, 1999
My Dad, stepmother and half brothers live in Shrewsbury.
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Queex Quimwrangler (Not Egon) Posted Oct 12, 1999
We used to drive through Shrewsbury when we went on holiday, before they opened the by-pass. An absolute arm-pit of a place. Nice daffodils, though.
Exactly how is it supposed to be pronounced, anyway?
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Eli Towells Posted Oct 12, 1999
It's actually quite a nice town - not the most exiting I'll
grant you, but we have just got a multiscreen cinema which
seems to be a pretty neat idea.
Pronounced Shrose Berry historically, infact it used to be spelt
with an 'O' however these days only the toffs call it anything
other than Shrewsbury (as in shrew.)
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Queex Quimwrangler (Not Egon) Posted Oct 15, 1999
I'll forego the obvious dead rodent jokes.
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Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' Posted Aug 13, 2000
Okeford Fitzpaine (pronounced Fippeny Ockford, so I'm told) takes the prize. Then there's Berkshire, trying to get out of the fact that its first syllable is a synonym for 'idiot'. Or am I the only one to mispronounce it?
Found! An American web-site devoted to 'stopping Teeny-Boppers'. It's clearly a personal commitment and a bit lackadaisical, but its principles are sound. Contributed by offering Townies as a British version of that particular scourge.
Worcester doesn't have many Townies. We could all go there and set up a Sanctuary.
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- 1: Divy (May 8, 1999)
- 2: Colin (The Happy Robot) (Jun 13, 1999)
- 3: Queex Quimwrangler (Not Egon) (Jun 22, 1999)
- 4: Colin (The Happy Robot) (Jun 29, 1999)
- 5: Queex Quimwrangler (Not Egon) (Oct 5, 1999)
- 6: Colin (The Happy Robot) (Oct 5, 1999)
- 7: Queex Quimwrangler (Not Egon) (Oct 7, 1999)
- 8: Eli Towells (Oct 7, 1999)
- 9: Colin (The Happy Robot) (Oct 7, 1999)
- 10: Queex Quimwrangler (Not Egon) (Oct 12, 1999)
- 11: Eli Towells (Oct 12, 1999)
- 12: Queex Quimwrangler (Not Egon) (Oct 15, 1999)
- 13: Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' (Aug 13, 2000)
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