Saturday, 6 August 2011

Short Lists

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.

12 comments:

Wolfers said...

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.

dearieme said...

Embonpoint, Quebec, and Decolletage, Belgium.

Mark Wadsworth said...

W, excellent.

D, you made those up, I checked.

Lola said...

entirely o/t topic. Seen this (crap)?:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0&feature=player_embedded

Lola said...

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...

Bayard said...

Burgau, Austria, Burgau, Germany and, surprisingly, Burgau, Portugal.

Anonymous said...

In Denmark,

Upperfart
Middlefart
Lowerfart


Best,
Mikew

Mark Wadsworth said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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

Tim Almond said...

There's Bayreuth in Germany (where Wagner's ring is performed) which is pronounced almost the same as Beirut in Lebanon.

Anonymous said...

Another town name of the mammarial persuasion: Nork.

expat said...

A suburb of Kuala Lumpur is call Titiwangsa. Does that count?