please empty your brain below
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Have you been to another ISIHAC recording, dg?
Gordon | 23.07.17 - 7:05 a.m. | #
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Crafty. There is one accurate etymology hidden here among the funny ones!
Malcolm | 23.07.17 - 7:11 a.m. | #
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So when you get to the Count next February, how many cans will this post explain?
Expat from Hammersmith (horseshoe smithy) / Shepherd's Bush (soon to be mutton pasture).
Geraldine49 | 23.07.17 - 7:14 a.m. | #
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Tooting Broadway: avenue lined by owls
Oh was it owls? I thought the place name was much newer and came from the cars that used their horns in the early days of motoring.
Antipodean | 23.07.17 - 7:28 a.m. | #
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A bit Miles Kington. I like it..
Sarah | Homepage | 23.07.17 - 7:50 a.m. | #
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Brixton's origins are also represented in the tiled murals on the Victoria Line platforms there.
martin | 23.07.17 - 7:56 a.m. | #
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Oooooh! Kittens! In Catford, where else?
Leuconoe | 23.07.17 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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Thanks for the Sunday morning giggle DG.
Deptford-where only bankrupts can cross the river?
Jo W | 23.07.17 - 8:33 a.m. | #
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I'm in Brockley, home of the earliest vegetarians.
ganchi | Homepage | 23.07.17 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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Winchmore Hill : mound where helicopter rescue teams practised.
Roger | 23.07.17 - 8:44 a.m. | #
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Ruislip: where people don't wipe their face after Chinese food
Greg | 23.07.17 - 9:12 a.m. | #
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Carshalton: contains a big pile of immovable vehicles
D-Notice | Homepage | 23.07.17 - 9:26 a.m. | #
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Canonbury: Ecclesiastical graveyard
'Enfield: A place for keeping chickens
Euston: Many female sheep
Kingston: A comatose monarch
Waltham Cross: Walter's pig is upset
and, using local pronunciation . . .
Fort Neef: A army building that guards North-West Croydon
RayL | 23.07.17 - 9:39 a.m. | #
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Snaresbrook...watercourse too wide to jump over.
b | 23.07.17 - 9:39 a.m. | #
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Turnpike Lane: a hedge-line thoroughfare adjacent to a dead-leg on the river.
Frank F | 23.07.17 - 10:19 a.m. | #
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Manor House: a choice made by many of Rod Stewart's ex-spouses
Frank F | 23.07.17 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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Hahaha! Love it!
Edgware: Place to don appropriate clothing before entering London.
Totteridge: Dangerous elevated footpath
Clapham: Site of honoured pigs
Kensington: Home of an overweight warbler named Ken
Cornish Cockney | 23.07.17 - 10:35 a.m. | #
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Holloway - to shout directions at someone.
Archway - telling someone who is lost that they shouldn't start from here.
Still anon | 23.07.17 - 11:56 a.m. | #
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Quite a bit of Ham & Sorcery there
Ray | 23.07.17 - 12:01 p.m. | #
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Mornington Crescent - cost of a ton of cress is a cent in the morning from here.
B | 23.07.17 - 1:15 p.m. | #
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Croydon: home of a shy professor who can't spell.
John Simmons | 23.07.17 - 1:29 p.m. | #
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Burnt Oak-dwelling of the cannabis devotees.
Jimbo | 23.07.17 - 2:09 p.m. | #
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You'll find more cannabis aficionados at Tokyngton
MikeGTN | Homepage | 23.07.17 - 3:07 p.m. | #
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Beckenham - two words for cured meat
Elmers End- errm, (answers on a postcard please)
Pratt's Bottom- ditto. 😳
Jo W | 23.07.17 - 3:23 p.m. | #
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By the time I got to Bloomsbury, I knew you were taking the piss.
Miles Archer | 23.07.17 - 3:51 p.m. | #
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Vauxhall - not much at all
Joel | 23.07.17 - 4:05 p.m. | #
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Roehampton - a ton of sliced pork and fish eggs
Bedfont - a lazy typeface
Borough - a hole
Fulwell - where certainty began
Greenford - Before Henry settled on black.
Stanmore - Where Stanley left his boat
Golders Green - Where Percy studied alchemy
Surbiton - where fenland birds are knighted.
Turnham Green - Where environmental campaigning began
daveid | 23.07.17 - 5:58 p.m. | #
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I can't believe that I actually understand the puns despite the fact that English isn't my first language.
Patrickov | 23.07.17 - 6:44 p.m. | #
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I really really really wish I'd included the Brockley description :)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 23.07.17 - 8:08 p.m. | #
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Elephant and castle - from La Infanta Da Castilla???
SJM | 23.07.17 - 8:19 p.m. | #
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Walthamstow -- where Walter kept his bacon.
Leyton -- place with lots of sexual activity
James Webber | 23.07.17 - 8:19 p.m. | #
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Having just come to the end of the 13th annual Tour de France Knitalong, I was particularly amused by Woolwich.
RosemaryT | 24.07.17 - 7:47 a.m. | #
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Ho.
All it's worth.
David | 24.07.17 - 9:22 a.m. | #
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Walthamstow - Place of welcome, originally called Wilcumstowe.
Romford - River Rom
neyagness | 24.07.17 - 11:49 a.m. | #
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Do these now form the start of then Uxbridge Dictionary of Place Names?
Joel | 25.07.17 - 2:32 p.m. | #
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Have you been listening to 'It Eppinged Long Ago' by Les Barker?
Colin | 28.07.17 - 9:40 a.m. | #
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