Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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There are no villages, towns, cities beginning with X in the UK.
Odd factoids
- Thread starter Blue Hills
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Apart from Xeter. During the great war with Yorkshire of 1922, the town fell and was overrun. The invaders had an annoying habit of pronouncing every 3rd word with an E or Ee in front of it, and thus that's how it was pronounced.
When the town was finally liberated by the Iraqi Republican Guard in 1979 they discovered all the road signs now read E'Xeter. Due to cost cutting g measure of the Thatcher government it was decided that it would be cheaper to change the towns name than to replace the signs.
classic33
Leg End Member
Does it also apply to
Exbourne - Devon
Exbury - Hampshire
Exceat - East Sussex
Exe - Somerset
Exe - Devon
Exebridge - Devon
Exelby - North Yorkshire
Exeter - Devon
Exford - Somerset
Exfords Green - Shropshire
Exhall - Warwickshire
Exlade Street - Oxfordshire
Exley Head - Bradford
Exley - Calderdale
Exminster - Devon
Exmoor - Somerset
Exmouth - Devon
Exnaboe - Shetland Islands
Exning - Suffolk
Exted - Kent
Exton - Hampshire
Exton - Somerset
Exton - Devon
Exton - Rutland
&
Exwick - Devon?
The government once set up The Cones Hotline folowing complaints that ice cream was being produced and sold in vast quantites and people had nothing to contain it in whilst they were eating it. Following some tragic messy food/nice shirt interface incidents the manufacture of wafer like cones was stepped up to an unprecedented level. Such was the panic among the general public the new cones were distributed free of charge at various venues.
To find out where.........you rang The Cones Hotline
...??
Or was it for the pine cone surplus panic...?
To find out where.........you rang The Cones Hotline
...??
Or was it for the pine cone surplus panic...?
I think you might have made that up.
No. The etymology of these names is completely different. These towns came into existence following the Divorce Act of 1563, which not only made divorce legal, but also made it illegal for divorced couples to live in the same town. The government of the time alleviated the problem by embarking on a significant housebuilding programme, very similar to the 1960’s “New Towns” schemes. These new towns, entirely populated by divorcees, all had names beginning “Ex”, as that’s where you sent your ex wife or husband when you got divorced.
classic33
Leg End Member
And Essex?
NorthernDave
Never used Über Member
- Location
- The real Northern Powerhouse
DCI Vera Stanhope covers the largest area of any British police officer, keeping the streets safe from Durham right up to the Scottish border.
ITV got special dispensation from HM Inspectorate of Constabulary for this on the grounds that "it's all up north"
ITV got special dispensation from HM Inspectorate of Constabulary for this on the grounds that "it's all up north"
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Thanks for that I have found my X for the ABC cycling challenge
classic33
Leg End Member
Exnaboe !!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Later named ABBA then ZZ Top
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
ZZ Tops beards are actually prosthetics. The guy without the beard did have a transplant but his body rejected it.
