Names and places

I was talking to a guy in work about this the other day - names of towns and
other places that have been changed around by the locals to show their
disdain for the dump they find themselves living in. Deadcat and Shagbot
were mentioned - anybody have knowledge of similar or wittier
transmogrifications?

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platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative."

 

Platypus?

 

Hayling Island. Good grief.

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platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative."

 

Mornington Crescent?

 

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&h...Y6pKIS22AL_i73mAw&sig2=XbWdPVF-haUDzJ6-BXG_TA

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platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative."

 

The amended sign at the entrance to cHaverford West seemed quite appropriate
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platypus says...

Deadford (Bedford)

 

platypus says...

Some of the signs to a village near where I was dragged up were changed
for quite a while from Cranfield, to Crapfield

 

There was a sign I saw going into Maryport a couple of years ago, said
"Please drive slowly", "drive" was altered to "d i e".

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platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative.”

 

Earl Shitton (Earl Shilton), Stinckley (Hinckley), Shitshed (Shepshed)
are some of the ones I can think of in Leicestershire.

 

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And yes, I've posted it before. Is it possible to "ginge" one's self?

 

Surely you cannot make that move while In Spoon?

 

Sadley Broke

 

Canal scrape near spurn head was changed to anal scrape........

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Kim Bolton

 

Retchworth

 

Ever-wet, Washington. (Everett)

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It was inevitable that signs for Shilbottle (A1 I think) were
repeatedly altered by crossing the 1st l. Even before the alteration I
always read it that way.

 

Tallafornia (Tallaght, Dublin) as seen in:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332658/

 

Slutton.

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