Lunt

[rogerzilla]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1312178,00.html

No-one in here is doing it, I hope 

[alecstilleyedye]

which caunts have done that

[CAMRAMan]

There's a big Lunt near Coventry

I once worked with a Lunt. Her maiden name was Wiper, so I'm not sure which was worse.

[border-rider]

We have the same problem in my town
Posted by Peter parker from Hithole, surrey

[rogerzilla]

I've mentioned this before, but I once drove through the village of Faulkland (near Bath) in a tropical rainstorm, and nearly crashed the car, I was laughing so hard at the lovingly-modified sign (white paint to obscure the "A", black paint to turn the "L" into a "C").

[Charlotte]

You should see what the filthy gaysexuals have done to the Canal Street signs in Manchester 

[rogerzilla]

Probably the same ones that got the Stoke Bruerne (C)anal Museum.

[rower40]

Reminds me of the joke:
Signmaker up a ladder, fitting letters to the side of a "Pollocks and Son" factory:
"Can I have a 'P' please, Bob?"
"I haven't got a 'P', only a 'B'."
"Well we've made a right mess of the 'London Brick Company', then."

[simonali]

Surely a similar thing happens in Scunthorpe, but with white paint, not black?!

[Wendy]

My mate took a liking to my bont laces:

http://www.londonskaters.com/banners/10082006058.jpg

[border-rider]

[alecstilleyedye]

don't call him lenny…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Lunt 

[Pete]

Why don't they do what the good folk of Fulking, Sussex, did?  Put the village name-signs on 10-foot posts?  And they're made out of individual shaped letters mounted on to a batten: far harder to alter!

[rogerzilla]

The people in F***ing, Austria don't have their signs defaced - why bother? -  but they were getting stolen a lot so they're now extra-securely fixed.

I still smirk at the knowledge that there is a Mayor of F***ing, who usually has to give a statement to the English-speaking media about such frivolities.

[border-rider]

The people in F***ing, Austria don't have their signs defaced - why bother? -  but they were getting stolen a lot so they're now extra-securely fixed.

That's the case in Llandewi Brevi also.  A few audaxs go through there, and until a few years ago it was a sleepy little village

I once had a pleasant doze on a bench there in the early hours.

[CAMRAMan]

Can I gratuitously add this to the thread?

I know, I know, but I haven't posted it here before...

[simonali]

There's a Dildo in Newfoundland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador

[border-rider]

Good job it's not in Labrador

[steveB]

Good job it's not in Labrador

 

[JonBuoy]

Decathlon's Rockrider branded items are just crying out for the first letter to be changed.

[rogerzilla]

Careful, or I'll pea roast the "Dad's Got A New...Mountain Bike!" advert.

[Mr Larrington]

I still smirk at the knowledge that there is a Mayor of F***ing, who usually has to give a statement to the English-speaking media about such frivolities.

At least the good people of Mortagne au Perche don't have this problem

[mecwales]

According to the local website, the area was first documented in 1251 in the Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey where it was referred to as "de Lund".

Snigger

[border-rider]

Good job it's not in Labrador

Talking of which...that breed of dog that had its name changed here for reasons of wartime acceptability is still known in the US as a German Shepard, and I believe that name is now the favoured one here

Anyway, back when it wasn't I was at a conference in the US and our host, who was involved with a chap from the French-German border,  mentioned in conversation that "my boyfriend is an Alsatian". Cue much worried confusion amongst the Brits, and an Alexi Sayle-alike piping up "Is that a hobby, like, or do you make films ?"