Aussie Place Names
May 20th 2008 | 12:44 am
#16
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Re: Aussie Place Names
The UK is just as bad...We have such gems as New York (Tyneside), California (Derby).
My personal favourites are Twatt (Scotland) and Penistone (Yorkshire)
My personal favourites are Twatt (Scotland) and Penistone (Yorkshire)
May 20th 2008 | 12:49 am
#17
Jan4kids
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Re: Aussie Place Names
I lived near a Villiage called 'Ugly' in the U.K.
May 20th 2008 | 12:52 am
#18
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Re: Aussie Place Names
Last edited by MartinLuther; May 20th 2008 at 12:54 am.
May 20th 2008 | 1:41 am
#19
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Re: Aussie Place Names
here's a good road trip.Start at the tip of Yorkeys Knob(Qld) down to Mt Buggery (Vic) ending up in Nowhere Else(Tas)
May 20th 2008 | 1:45 am
#20
da Bonehead
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Re: Aussie Place Names
May 20th 2008 | 1:50 am
#21
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From: Birkdale QLD
May 23rd 2008 | 4:16 pm
#23
Anything,Anytime,Anywhere
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From: The Magic Roundabout
Re: Aussie Place Names
Actually it's the Victorians that are referred to as "Mexicans". NSW residents are "cockroaches".
May 24th 2008 | 9:07 pm
#24
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From: Now Perth! Kalamunda
Re: Aussie Place Names
How about all the "knobs", Yorkeys Knob in Queensland and Iron Knob. Then there is Wetwang in Yorkshire...
May 24th 2008 | 9:37 pm
#25
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From: Angle vale Sth Australia
Re: Aussie Place Names
In SA we have Worlds End, Iron knob, in the Barossa valley we have Nurioopta,......that always gets them.......mm
May 24th 2008 | 9:53 pm
#26
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Re: Aussie Place Names
Apart from that and Iron Knob(probably a Viagra overdose) , any other famous knobs in Australia?
JTL
May 24th 2008 | 11:39 pm
#27
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From: Redcliffe, Brisbane
Re: Aussie Place Names
A part of Redcliffe is called Humpybong
May 24th 2008 | 11:47 pm
#28
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Re: Aussie Place Names
oh and I forgot to mention
Hornibrook Bridge and Woody Point!
Both around Redcliffe, jeez... it's making me see the place in a different light
Hornibrook Bridge and Woody Point!
Both around Redcliffe, jeez... it's making me see the place in a different light
May 24th 2008 | 11:55 pm
#29
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Re: Aussie Place Names
Jeez thats true too, this is opening my eyes. Mrs JTL has been looking at Woody Point. And she can't even give me grief for saying that because she really has been looking at properties on Woody Point. And I completely missed the innuendo... until now.
Ha Ha
. Must get her to look a woody point again...JTL
May 25th 2008 | 12:07 am
#30
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From: Redcliffe, Brisbane
Re: Aussie Place Names
We've just moved into a new place in Clontarf. If that's not rude then it should be... and we're just a few kms downwind of Burpengary.... what have we done??
