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Old 22nd Aug 2004, 12:42
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So adr, what about the other 'tit', Brown Clee Hill??? Or are you assuming that just adds to the breast metaphor?
Must have beennamed as a monument to our wonderful Chancellor of the Exchequer - Mr Brown, a 'tit' in many peoples eyes.
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Old 22nd Aug 2004, 12:55
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So adr, what about the other 'tit', Brown Clee Hill??? Or are you assuming that just adds to the breast metaphor?
Heh. Am I present at the birth of a new euphemism? "Hey, guys, check out the Brown Clees at ten o'clock." Not that anyone here would ever draw attention to a person's physical attributes, of course. Ahem. Is that the time? Must be going.

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Unless I'm mistaken,apart from the obvious topographical features , the "tits" comes from Titterstone Clee Hill (map/photo).
Note that Stocking Cottage is about 1200m NW of Titterstone Clee Hill............
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Old 22nd Aug 2004, 15:00
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But one wonders about the naming of a certain place near Woodbridge... At 332471 on my old 50 thou of the area was the splendidly named 'Gobblecock Hall' just south of the road across Sutton Common near World's End Plantation. Sadly it has disappeared from more recent versions of the map!
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Old 23rd Aug 2004, 17:35
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While we're on comedy place names, has anyone ever visited (intentionally or otherwise) the village of Muff? It's just inside the RoI north of Londonderry, and is on the coast, so it's entirely possible they have a diving club...
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Old 23rd Aug 2004, 21:06
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"Ere, look at 'er Brown Clees! " might also suggest one is regarding a young ladies knobbly leg joints. Or is that where 'they' are hanging down to....?!
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Old 23rd Aug 2004, 22:02
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Ah it is all so crude.

I prefer to have meandered around the Bosoms on West Falkland.

Well, maybe not preferred to be on west Falkland now I think about it.......

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Old 24th Aug 2004, 09:09
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On the Shetland Isles Mainland, just off the A971 near Bixter there is a place (not enough people even to be called a Hamlet) by the name of Twatt. My wife took a photograph of me standing next to the road-sign. That was an error of judgement.
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Old 24th Aug 2004, 17:06
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Twatt was large enough to have a Royal Naval Air Station (HMS Tern) from 1941 to 1949.
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Old 24th Aug 2004, 17:10
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I remember 'K**t Electronics' which was on the road to Antioch (no sign of the holy handgrenade) from Incirlik

And I have the picture (this is turning into an FHM article!)

edited for cleanliness
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Old 24th Aug 2004, 17:51
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Seem to remember in the States two airfields to get in your logbook were 'French Lick' and 'Intercourse'. Don't know if they really exist, but sound good!
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Old 24th Aug 2004, 19:03
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Gobblecock

Not that I would doubt it, but it would appear there is a novel entitled 'The Mystery of Gobblecock'.... a Thriller apparently...!

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Old 24th Aug 2004, 21:47
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I can certainly confirm there is a small town called Intercourse, in Pennsylvania.
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Old 24th Aug 2004, 22:33
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I hate to do this, but just north of Intercourse, Pennsylvania there appears to be a "Muddy Run".

Here endeth the smut........

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Old 24th Aug 2004, 23:34
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French Lick is in Indiana.

Short info link and one with even more fascinating ( ) facts here.
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Old 25th Aug 2004, 19:29
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Well, if we are in to airfield names then I have made quite a few approaches to those two, fairly close, airstrips in the Middle East. Namely Firq and Saik.

Their names do them justice.
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Old 26th Aug 2004, 06:10
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Before the Jebel Akhdar road was built, the only way to get the alfalfa needed as fodder by the beasts of burden at the top of the mountain was to fly it in robust fixed-wing a/c. Departure a/f was Firq, arrival a/f was Saiq; do the run 4 times and there was a "4 Firq Saiq" tie available to the lucky pilot.
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Old 26th Aug 2004, 12:07
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On the subject of Scottish hills, the Paps of Jura are mentioned above but we have Pap singular in the hill the Pap of Glencoe. Viewed from the north (usually from outside the Glencoe Hotel with pint in hand on a summers eve) it has a wonderfully pleasing form
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Old 26th Aug 2004, 17:47
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Not forgetting the airfield of MUFRASH which I'm sure all the chaps who have spent time in and around Basrah are more than familiar with ....

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Old 26th Aug 2004, 18:53
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In the early Eighties there was a NDB (?) called Sob Story which I think was in Iceland. It was listed in the Red ERS.
 


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