[SOC] The Mount Everest of Boring Places

Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:18:04 -0500

HOO - HAW ! obviously you guys have never been to Drumbo, Ontario....

73 - 72 - OO
Dennis - [email protected]
"CW from the Great White North"
FP-512, SOC-545,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Redding" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] The Mount Everest of Boring Places

> Agreed...Yate, Chipping Sodbury and Widnes are all on the same isobore
(this
> is a line on a map which joins together places of equal crappyness).
>
> The Mount Everest of boring places is the village of Twenty, in
> Lincolnshire, which is universally regarded (even by its inhabitants) as
the
> single most boring inhabited place on the face of the entire United
Kingdom.
>
> http://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/twenty.htm  (only if you are a
> glutton for punishment)
>
> It is a village without a centre...there is not even so much as a pub
there,
> and (apart from a few wind-blasted trees) the landscape is totally flat
and
> featureless right out to the horizon in all directions.
>
> Some local comedian added 'Twinned with the Moon' to the road name signs.
>
> Even Twenty's sole web page (above) doesn't even feature a picture of the
> village, but is instead of its long-closed railway station, which is miles
> from the actual village.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Bartlett" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 9:43 AM
> Subject: RE: [SOC] Rugby
>
>
> > >Then drove home (to Yate) in a 'casual manner' :-)
> >
> > It's rare to hear of anyone actually admitting to living in (or
> > having lived in)
> >
> > Yate. On the subject of England being boring, Yate would have to
> > be the capital.
> >
> > Most people just say they live near Sodbury.
> >
> > P ;-)
> >
> >
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