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Offline Gentleman Thug

100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« on: August 18, 2014, 08:55 AM »
Amen Corner
 Angel Corner
 Animal Reception Centre
 Badgers Mount/Badgers Rise       
 Bald Faced Stag
 Blackness Lane
 Blood Transfusion Centre
 Bounces Road
 Butter Hill
 Casino Avenue
 C E M E
 Chargeable Lane
 Clamp Hill
 Chelsea Worlds End
 Cockabourne Bridge
 Copt Gilders
 Crabtree Manorway North
 Crooked Usage
 Crook Log
 Cummings Hall Lane
 Dongola Road
 East View Kennels
 Electric House
 Faggs Road
 Fakruddin Street
 Farwig Lane
 Fish Island
 Force Green
 Ford Gate 3
 Gibbon Walk
 Golf Ride
 Goose Green
 Graham Hall Coachworks
 Great Benty
 Gubbins Lane
 Guy, Earl of Warwick
 Ha Ha Road
 Halt Robin Lane
 Ham Parade
 Hasluck Gardens
 Heathrow Close
 Highgate Group Practice
 Holiday Inn
 Horse Leaze
 Icity
 Ickenham Pump
 Jutsums Lane
 Kodak Sports Ground
 Lady Dock Path   Lings Coppice
 Little Britain
 Lunar House
 Malden Rushett/Shy Horse
 Maypole/Bo Peep
 Medical Research Institute
 Naafi Messing Store
 National Physical Laboratory
 Neasden Underpass
 Nonsuch Park
 North Pole Road
 Nutter Lane
 Old School Close
 Pools on the Park
 Popes Grotto
 Pratts Bottom
 Pricklers Hill
 Quorn Road
 Reapers Way
 Roundel Close
 Safari Bridge
 Savage Gardens
 Scotland Green
 Secombe Centre
 Seething Wells
 Shaa Road
 Shirley Clinic
 Snakes Lane East
 St Mary Axe
 Stoats Nest Village
 Susan Wood
 The Cauliflower
 The Chinese Garage
 The Cottage Loaf
 The Hop Exchange
 The Pavement
 The Rabbits
 The Squirrels
 The Thames Riviera
 Tiepigs Lane
 Times Square
 Uneeda Drive
 Velopark
 Vulcan Way
 Waltheof Avenue
 Wavelengths
 Wibbandune Sports Club
 William Barefoot Drive
 Zangwill Road
 Zig Zag Road
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Offline ninjumper

Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2014, 11:43 PM »
 :D :D :D :D :D
 
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Offline Niobe

Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2014, 12:41 AM »
 :D
 
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Offline misspebbles

Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2014, 04:01 AM »
I like Icity...sounds like an apps for my phone...but what about Faggs Road,everybody dumped their cigarrette butts there? :D  Pratts Bottom...better not to give my personal explanation
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Offline Gentleman Thug

Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2014, 04:32 AM »
I have to give you

The London Bus Driver's Prayer

Our Farnham, who art in Hendon
Harrow be Thy name.
Thy Kingston come; thy Wimbledon,
In Erith as it is in Hendon.
Give us this day our daily Brent
And forgive us our Westminster
As we forgive those who Westminster against us.
And lead us not into Thames Ditton
But deliver us from Yeovil.
For Thine is the Kingston, the Purley and the Crawley,
For Esher and Esher.
Crouch End.


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Offline Gentleman Thug

Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2014, 06:10 AM »
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I like Icity...sounds like an apps for my phone...but what about Faggs Road,everybody dumped their cigarrette butts there? :D  Pratts Bottom...better not to give my personal explanation

Oh go on, I know you are dying too!  >:D
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Offline Gentleman Thug

Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2014, 07:29 AM »
8 more slightly strange London bus stop names
 Brian Close
 Charles I I Street
 Clitterhouse Road South
 Lebanon Road Tram Stop
 Oval Square
 Tibbetts Ride/Green Man
 The Jolly Farmers Open Space
 University of Cumbria in London
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Offline Gentleman Thug

Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2014, 07:35 AM »
Some foreign stops...

In Rome, Largo Labia
and:
In Tourcoing, just on the French side of the French/Belgian border, outside Lille, Risquons Tout

Melbourne has Moonee Valley and Moonee Ponds, Sydney has Rooty Hill. (BTW Never say you are rooting round in your draws!  :D ).  Yorkeys Knob in Cairns
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Offline ninjumper

Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2014, 12:03 AM »
damn, these are hilarious  :D :D :D
 
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Offline Gentleman Thug

Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2014, 05:36 AM »
Some more from around Britain... please add anymore from anywhere else

In Sheffield you can get a bus the destination of which is Halfway.

In the West Midlands buses go to, or via, New Invention, Fighting Cocks, California and Londonderry.

Southern Vectis on the Isle of Wight have both a 'Middle of Nowhere' and a 'Back of Beyond'
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Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2014, 07:41 AM »
In Spain we have some really fun ones, but they lose all meaning in translation, and then, we have ¨urban poets¨who keep changing metro station names , but the plate and everything...
and in Rome you can find altered  traffic signs  made the same way
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Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2014, 04:18 PM »
 :laugh: :laugh:

Things change
 
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Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2014, 11:37 PM »
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In Spain we have some really fun ones, but they lose all meaning in translation, and then, we have ¨urban poets¨who keep changing metro station names , but the plate and everything...
and in Rome you can find altered  traffic signs  made the same way
:D :D :D :D
 
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Offline Gentleman Thug

Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2014, 07:24 AM »
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In Spain we have some really fun ones, but they lose all meaning in translation, and then, we have ¨urban poets¨who keep changing metro station names , but the plate and everything...
and in Rome you can find altered  traffic signs  made the same way

You soon have a wider audience  ;D, according to the BBC News at 1pm today.  Spanish is becoming more popular in Schools than French.

Perhaps it is due to the native speakers.  According to a commentator "If you try to speak less than perfect French in France they treat you with contempt but if you try very bad Spanish in Spain they praise you"
« Last Edit: August 22, 2014, 07:32 AM by Gentleman Thug »
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Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2014, 08:49 AM »
But, alas! remember it´s not the same classical Spanish than the one spoken by the commoners
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Offline Gentleman Thug

Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2014, 05:13 AM »
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But, alas! remember it´s not the same classical Spanish than the one spoken by the commoners

Commoners?  Are you a Duquesa, Marquesa, Condesa, Vizcondesa or Baronesa??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2k1iRD2f-c

I know my place.

now you know some London streets, we can play a round of Mornington Crescent?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVszcAgsBxs

mind you there are some interesting village names... like Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter  :D

Thuggy
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Offline misspebbles

Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2014, 02:37 PM »
Oops, i thought you knew I´m a princess ...a rotten spoilt one.Always a princess so I can do whatever and never take any responsibility. >:D
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« Last Edit: August 23, 2014, 02:39 PM by misspebbles »
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Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #17 on: August 26, 2014, 11:08 AM »
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Oops, i thought you knew I´m a princess ...a rotten spoilt one.Always a princess so I can do whatever and never take any responsibility. >:D
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Mmmm I claim you are Princess Cristina and I my claim £20  :D
but you maybe more popular
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or maybe you are from the island of San Serriffe.  At least you would be set out beautifully
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Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #18 on: August 26, 2014, 11:25 AM »
Don´t you remember when we started complaining about thieves in our countries? well, there you go.So I proclaim to be the princess of my house, really good for me.
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Re: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names
« Reply #19 on: August 27, 2014, 08:04 AM »
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Don´t you remember when we started complaining about thieves in our countries? well, there you go.So I proclaim to be the princess of my house, really good for me.

Well I think like Admiral Byng, we should shot one from time to time to encourage the others  >:D

Byng's execution was satirized by Voltaire in his novel Candide. In Portsmouth, Candide witnesses the execution of an officer by firing squad; and is told that "in this country, it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, in order to encourage the others" (Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres).

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By the way, would it be even more annoying to people in Spain, if the British still held Minorca as well as Gibraltar?  >:D

Spotted this in "The Oxford Book of Humourous Prose"

"Surveyor Willmott's habit of punning was responsible for some quaint names.  He is said to have named such places as 'Katamatite' (because an earlier settler driving home drunk kept asking his wife "Kate, am I tight"); Miepoll (after a police magistrate who had a habit of saying "My Poll says this... " and "My Poll says this..."); he might even have been responsible for naming Bandiana after a bandy-legged lubra [aboriginal woman] named Anna"

A man after my own heart Princess Pebbles  :D

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