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Gippsland GeekFest returns to Coal Creek, Korumburra this year!
Gasp in horror at the sight of what PuddingWrestler ACTUALLY looks like!
Howl with laughter at drag artistes performing extracts from Star Wars!
Take part in RPGs and Floorgames!
Dress in finest steampunk and cosplay!
Earn prizes by lying about your age and entering the colouring contest!
Talk to people who have done impressive things like work on Star Wars!
Eat sausages prepared by men who own classic cars!
Quote video games in pubic without feeling foolish!
Grumble at the grim fate which means that the event takes place in rural South Gippsland while you live in remote and distant lands such as Europe and the US!
I had to look on Google Earth to see if this was a real place! It is!
Quote from: kerick on January 02, 2016, 09:05:00 PM
I had to look on Google Earth to see if this was a real place! It is!
So is Tittybong. Never doubt Australian place names again.
Quote from: puddingwrestler on January 03, 2016, 01:38:54 AM
Quote from: kerick on January 02, 2016, 09:05:00 PM
I had to look on Google Earth to see if this was a real place! It is!
So is Tittybong. Never doubt Australian place names again.
There's a fair number in UK too:- Piddletrenthythe, Pow, Stargate, Findo Gask to name but a few.
Quote from: Rheged on January 03, 2016, 04:52:17 AM
Quote from: puddingwrestler on January 03, 2016, 01:38:54 AM
Quote from: kerick on January 02, 2016, 09:05:00 PM
I had to look on Google Earth to see if this was a real place! It is!
So is Tittybong. Never doubt Australian place names again.
There's a fair number in UK too:- Piddletrenthythe, Pow, Stargate, Findo Gask to name but a few.
There is a Hell, Arizona.
Quote from: kerick on January 03, 2016, 01:10:29 PM
Quote from: Rheged on January 03, 2016, 04:52:17 AM
Quote from: puddingwrestler on January 03, 2016, 01:38:54 AM
Quote from: kerick on January 02, 2016, 09:05:00 PM
I had to look on Google Earth to see if this was a real place! It is!
So is Tittybong. Never doubt Australian place names again.
There's a fair number in UK too:- Piddletrenthythe, Pow, Stargate, Findo Gask to name but a few.
There is a Hell, Arizona.
Don't forget about Punxsutawney, Pa.
There's a Baghdad in Tasmania.
For those not in the know, Tasmania is the wettest, coldest, greenest part of Australia. It looks like someone tried to recreate Australia in a drizzly spot in England.
A few others in the US.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/wackytowns.html
I always wanted to go to Toad Suck, Arkansas on the way to Sweet Lips, Tennessee.
Although, its hard to beat Tittybong.
Too funny. Thanks for the laugh.....oh, and enjoy yourself !
:cheers:
My favourite silly place name in the whole wide world is Cheesequake in New Jersey USA.
Pratts Bottom, Kent.
Gippy is a bit further than I'm prepared to hike unfortunately. Have a good one.
Westward Ho! in england - one of only two places world wide with an exclamation mark in the name (the other is in Canada, and is French, but I cannot recall the name) that are NOT in the Kalahari (the local languages use a lot of clicking sounds, which are represented by !)
Another local town is Meeniyan (pronounces meenyun, like a stereotypically villainous chihuahua would say 'minion'). I like to think that it is where Minions come from.
I would be remiss not to mention picturesque Poowong.
Fun fact: I was testing out the obscenity filter on the website at the school where I work, and added the word 'poo' to the list of words to censor. A few weeks later, an equine studies ecursion was organised to Poowong. It was put on the school bulletin, which was run via the website. The result? A trip to <CENSORED!>wong.
Quote from: zenrat on January 03, 2016, 11:39:16 PM
My favourite silly place name in the whole wide world is Cheesequake in New Jersey USA.
Some us in NJ call it Cheesecake :wacko:
Quote from: puddingwrestler on January 05, 2016, 12:11:36 AM
I would be remiss not to mention picturesque Poowong.
Fun fact: I was testing out the obscenity filter on the website at the school where I work, and added the word 'poo' to the list of words to censor. A few weeks later, an equine studies ecursion was organised to Poowong. It was put on the school bulletin, which was run via the website. The result? A trip to <CENSORED!>wong.
Scunthorpe can give similar problems.
As a child, my first encounter with Scunthorpe was in a book by Spike Milligan. I assumed it was a fictional name...
Sunny Scunnie ? New it very well. As a town it produced the most steel of any in the UK. Basically one big steelworks and the only one where they named the blast furnaces - Queen's Anne, Mary, Bess and Victoria. Every where else just gave them No's. Works is still there but no idea of it's scale now, been retired to long
Quote from: puddingwrestler on January 05, 2016, 12:11:36 AM
I would be remiss not to mention picturesque Poowong.
Fun fact: I was testing out the obscenity filter on the website at the school where I work, and added the word 'poo' to the list of words to censor. A few weeks later, an equine studies ecursion was organised to Poowong. It was put on the school bulletin, which was run via the website. The result? A trip to <CENSORED!>wong.
I once worked for a Government department. They purchased an email filter device (basically a computer) and I was placed in charge of configuring it. After reading the manual I mentioned to my superior that there were quite a few email filters. I asked if he wanted them implemented? "Go ahead!" He declared. I did so. Email for the entire department slowed and halted. It appears Australian public servants have a much more robust vocabulary than most Americans! I was instructed to turn the filters off immediately. :banghead:
Quote from: rickshaw on January 07, 2016, 04:18:52 AM
Quote from: puddingwrestler on January 05, 2016, 12:11:36 AM
I would be remiss not to mention picturesque Poowong.
Fun fact: I was testing out the obscenity filter on the website at the school where I work, and added the word 'poo' to the list of words to censor. A few weeks later, an equine studies ecursion was organised to Poowong. It was put on the school bulletin, which was run via the website. The result? A trip to <CENSORED!>wong.
I once worked for a Government department. They purchased an email filter device (basically a computer) and I was placed in charge of configuring it. After reading the manual I mentioned to my superior that there were quite a few email filters. I asked if he wanted them implemented? "Go ahead!" He declared. I did so. Email for the entire department slowed and halted. It appears Australian public servants have a much more robust vocabulary than most Americans! I was instructed to turn the filters off immediately. :banghead:
And yet we get overly sensitive about the word root and describe the piece of equipment which connects many computers so it rhymes with flauter rather than with fluter.
:rolleyes:
It can get interesting when your company merges with an overseas based one, especially when those overseas tend to speak better English than we did and we couldn't speak a word of theirs. :banghead: There were a couple of words which were perfectly legitimate nouns in English but uncouth words in the other lots slang. They used to think it was hilarious when we would "say have you got the latest figures for so and so business". Didn't let on for months ;D