In the comments, DBC suggested: "Which common British bird,featured in popular song, is known for its addiction to marijuana?" and Bayard suggested "Queens of England that were born commoners?"
Fair enough, you can be getting on with those, but, having spent a lot of time staring at maps and railway timetables while on holiday, my suggestion is "Towns in different countries with similar sounding names". To get the ball rolling, how about:
Friedrichshafen (Germany's most southern port) and Frederikshavn (Denmark's most northern port)
Epping (outer suburb of London) and Eppingen (outer suburb of Heilbronn in Germany)
Kempton (town where they do horse racing) and Kempten (town in Bavaria)
UPDATE: Bayard submits Burgau (Germany), Burgau (Austria) and Burgau (Portugal).
Joseph Takagi submit Bayreuth (pronounced Buy-roit) and Beirut.
I spotted another corker this afternoon while explaining to my sisters where we'd been on holiday: Hereford, England and Herford, Germany.
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I'm not aware that there are any other towns named in honour of women's breasts, but if you know of one, please leave a comment!
UPDATE: Wolfers submits Brest (excellent) and Bristol, but that doesn't count because Bristol City is rhyming slang and the town is not called after its own football team.
Anon submits Nork.
Expat submits Titiwangsa.
We can harvest these from Google Maps, actually. There's Boobery, United Kingdom and Bubry, France, which would thus qualify for the first short list as well. See also Titisee, Germany, Tytsjerk, Netherlands, Mammari, Cyprus.
Inconvenient people
1 hour ago
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Well, there's Brest and Bristol, so I suppose they together make a pair.
I've been looking on Google Earth and have yet to locate a town called 'Dirty Great Knockers' though.
Embonpoint, Quebec, and Decolletage, Belgium.
W, excellent.
D, you made those up, I checked.
entirely o/t topic. Seen this (crap)?:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0&feature=player_embedded
Just found a better link
http://www.thersa.org/events/video/vision-videos/david-harvey-the-crises-of-capitalism
I had forgotten about this bloke...
Burgau, Austria, Burgau, Germany and, surprisingly, Burgau, Portugal.
In Denmark,
Upperfart
Middlefart
Lowerfart
Best,
Mikew
L, the video is 31 minutes, can you summarise?
B, good ones.
MikeW, you made those up. And they're all in the same country anyway.
MW,
They are all in Denmark true...ish. But I have been to one and searched for the other two - on the grounds of symmetry!
MikeW
There's Bayreuth in Germany (where Wagner's ring is performed) which is pronounced almost the same as Beirut in Lebanon.
Another town name of the mammarial persuasion: Nork.
A suburb of Kuala Lumpur is call Titiwangsa. Does that count?
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