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France has already beaten you to it[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I wonder if my neighbor was from there? 
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Bacon.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Sometimes, the names are perfectly fine. There are two town in Texas, Alice and Louise. On the road between them is a third town, Comfort. According to legend, a Holiday Inn used to have a billboard on that road advertising the hotel with the slogan: "Sleep in Comfort, between Alice and Louise."
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We moved to AZ in 1959 and there was a billboard somewhere in Texas that had a teenage girl lying on the floor with her legs up on the bed and the sign read; "But a ding-a-ling for your ding-a-ling". I thought that was the neatest saying...Ok maybe just me!
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Dry Gulch.
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That way whenever someone asks where you are going you can reply:
"I am going to kill you"
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...rename Luton to Sto-vo-kor just to annoy gullible Trekkies when they get there... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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So I can tell people that I live in Idleness.
Then, when my correspondent points out they were asking where I lived not how I lived, I mutter some woefully un-humorous thing about living by the church.
modified 21-Feb-14 11:24am.
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Didn't know it was the most common, but, there IS a Bowling Green about 10 miles from me...
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I believe Fairview is the most common name for a town in the US.
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Holy crap, you're right! 
/ravi
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I would name it 'Abandoned Settlement' to hide it from the tax man
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Asboville - to deter people from moving to Cambridge and as a consequence stop the constant building of new housing when the roads in Cambridge are already over full.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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What's the problem with ASBOs? For some of them, it's the only qualification they are ever going to get! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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As a child my Grandmother lived in Noplace (clicky)[^]. Wouldn't have changed that for the world !
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Crawley -> Sarf Lunnon-innit-Wot
Luton -> Norf Lunnon-innit-Wot
Chertsey -> Chertsey-under-Thames
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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RIP Malcolm Tierney.
Wiki[^]
Played in Dr Who, then found fame as oily antiques dealer and cad Charlie Gimbert.
Was also excellent in House of Cards (The original, brilliant, BBC one, not the OK'ish Merkin one)
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Mohamad M. Mohamad wrote: Is this true or myth?
Coming from somebody who believes in God? 
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Conclusion: Wi-Fi is harmless.
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Wohohohooo, please put that religion card back in your pocket.
Edit: Removed that bit here.
The scariest moment is always just before the Start - Stephen King
Die Frauen warten auf die Liebe, und die Männer warten auf die Frauen - Wolf Wondratschek
modified 21-Feb-14 8:37am.
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Please. You are not the Internet Police.
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