h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

floosey (sp?)

i must bow my head to gnu and give a chuckle...

pronounced "niu" in Italian, sort of.

Flageolet.
Bowl.
Muck-spreader.
Flock.
Apron.
Snooze.

Mandragora Scrymidden. That makes me smile.

People. the Welsh word is pobl (pron. pobble) I don't know. Peeple. Pobble. Can't make up my mind which is funnier.

School.
Read it over and over and you'll notice that it looks really weird.

Have you ever had a competition at work when you chose a word for the day and the winner was the person who managed to encorporate it seemlessly into a conversation with a client/customer?

Favourites were always words like flange or gusset.

Try it if your bored.

I could act all stuffy and be offended that my name amuses you. But it amuses me also, so I won't bother. I have a friend whose cousin is called Peter Falloon. I've also heard of a Mr. Godbehere, a Mr. Trump, Christopher Slack and the Bland family.

I used to live near a place in Suffolk called 6 Mile Bottom.

Always got a chuckle when commuting to work.

Rama

There's two other places in East Anglia I know, one called Three Holes and a road called Cat's Bottom.
I've also known some funny names. Mr Backholer and a Miss Taken were to good ones.

I've also lived in Devon where there is a Tor (hill) called Brown Willy.

Oh the schooltime chuckles.

Rama

'Halifax' is funny for some reason. Near us there is a Hazely Knob. And you're familiar, no doubt, with Chipping Sodbury, but there's also Old Sodbury and Little Sodbury.
For sheer silliness, you can't beat Barton-in-the-Beans, Minchinhampton, Drayton-le-Clay, Wormelow Tump or Lower Slaughter.
People: I know a Miss Slaughter, and someone whose surname is Bunney. They're nothing like their names. I'd hate to work in anything to do with the public- wouldn't you just collapse if you had to talk to a Miss Lusty?

At school I was taught my a Mr. Pratt,

And (this is the absolute truth I swear)

A girl from Hong Kong joined our school whilst I was there. Obvious on HK she had a chinese name but when she came to England her parents decided on an English name. That name was Halley.

"Not so bad!" I hear you cry, well what makes it is that the family name was Butt.

So this poor girl, for about 4 years at school got a neverending stream of fish jokes that 99% of the time she didn't understand. I should feel sorry but for some reason I don't....

Rama

p.s. For those slow out there her name was Halley Butt (Halibut?.. Oh foget it!)

I did hear of a poor girl getting called Dawn Key once.

Whoever gave her that name must have been a bit of an ass!

I also knew a guy at Uni called Chris Hunt (!) and if that wasn't bad enough his nickname was Mike.

Rama

Good names I have heard:

Guy (pronounced Gooey)
Barcelona
Saddam McCarthy
Kirk Douglas (not the famous one)
Ultan Ryan (signs his name V Ryan)
Polly Walley
Miss Fortune
Holly Berry and Ivy Berry (sisters)

Other names I have heard but which may not be genuine:

Myles Long
Justin Case
Annette Curtin
Tara McAdam

Further non-genuine ones:

Seymour Butts
I.P. Freely

etc.

etc.

Rama

one of my favorite place names is Scotrun, PA (ok, try reading it on a sign as you go by at about 60mph and see if you dont get it)

there's also and Intercourse,PA as well....

There's a road near Rochdale called Wham Bottom Lane. Well it makes me laugh. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned poo.

Incidentally, somebody mentioned the woody and tinny word sketch - I remember it, it was definitely Python.

A river in Devon or Dorset called the River Piddle.

PP

On the naughty school tittery type front

Loads of places in USA called Beaver
Denmark - Ars
France - Brest
Hertfordshire - Bushey
Algeria - Tit

And so on.

Oh and a planet which has stopped being called Uranus and is now known as Uranus. (If you get my drift).

PP