Surnames - the third fine language mess

There is a river Piddle down in Dorset...

 

Don't know about England-but here in the US i(with only one "T'") it's vernacular for "vagina". What makes Merlins's photo even funnier is that the arrow is actually pointing to a woman.. Cant top that...

Hey! heres a town in Southern Brazill called Pelotas (balls)...

 

Same in England.
Although it has other uses...
It is also a low-grade insult - "you twat" = "you twit"
And "I'll twat him" = "I'll hit him"

Most people rarely, if ever, use the other meaning.

 

O.K in Dorset, as previously mentioned we have the River Piddle. Upon the river Piddle is the village of Piddletrethide. The town of Piddletown (now known as Puddletown. The name was changed when Queen Victoria came on a visit to Dorset). But best of all, the "Piece de la resistance";" La creme de la creme" must be the suburb of Bere Regis called...............

















SHITTERTON

 

Somewhere in the Netherlands (I have been bribed into not telling the exact location ) there is a place called Moddergat (Mudhole).

And of course near and beyond the German border there is the wonderful combination, three villages in a row called Meppen, Twist, Meppen (hitting, quarrel, hitting). :lol:

 

In a county not far from me, there are 2 villages called Ugley and Nasty.
A few years ago, there was a wedding announcement in the Parish magazine - Nasty man marries Ugley woman!

 

Ricky

That has got to be a wind up, surely?

 

No - the towns exist. Look them up in your road atlas!
I had heard he story & thought it was a wind up. Then I was looking for something in the index of my road atlas & found one of them!

 

The Germans have Titz and Wankum.

 

Reminds me of a Cricket match between West Indies and England, when the commentator said ' the batsman's Holding the bowler's Willy'.

 

Austria has a town called F*cking. Imagine the faces of the American soldiers who liberated it in 1945.

Sorry for the little star, forum censorship won't allow me to write this Austrian place name like it should be!

 

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There are at least three places in England called Willey!(and pronounced Willy) one in Shropshire, ons called Willey Green in Surrey and one just off the A5 in Warwickshire, the latter having it's road sign off the A5 stolen regularly, the local pub "The Sarah Mansfield" does a speciality sausage meal called "The Willey Whopper".

 

Oh us English & our "toilet" humour. :lol:

 

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information please. Is it true that the "brassiere" (Busten halter") was invented in 1912 in New York by a German underwear designer by the name of "Otto Titzling"?
According to my Google search engine this is true!

 

Told my lawyer about this section over lunch...He has a client called Richard Quick..Dick Quick...and another called Enzo Passalacqua (Pass the water-) 8)