Author Topic: 100 slightly strange London bus stop names (Read 13504 times)

Gentleman Thug · « **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

ninjumper · « **Reply #1 on:** August 18, 2014, 11:43 PM »

Niobe · « **Reply #2 on:** August 19, 2014, 12:41 AM »

misspebbles · « **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?

Pratts Bottom...better not to give my personal explanation

Gentleman Thug · « **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.

Gentleman Thug · « **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? Pratts Bottom...better not to give my personal explanation

Oh go on, I know you are dying too!

Gentleman Thug · « **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

Gentleman Thug · « **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!

). Yorkeys Knob in Cairns

ninjumper · « **Reply #8 on:** August 20, 2014, 12:03 AM »

damn, these are hilarious

Gentleman Thug · « **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'

misspebbles · « **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

quietgirlwiththebook · « **Reply #11 on:** August 21, 2014, 04:18 PM »

ninjumper · « **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

Gentleman Thug · « **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

, 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"

misspebbles · « **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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Gentleman Thug · « **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

Thuggy

misspebbles · « **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.

Some pics to add to our research
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Gentleman Thug · « **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.
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Mmmm I claim you are Princess Cristina and I my claim £20

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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misspebbles · « **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.

Gentleman Thug · « **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

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?

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

"President for Life" Thuggy

100 slightly strange London bus stop names

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