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Seconded. I think I had the worst feed of fish and chips I've ever had from the Dannevirke Fish Supply. Bulls is crap, too. Te Awamutu is twaddle. Auckland was built where it is because they needed somewhere to put all the ignorant twats who think that "Shortland Street" is some kind of Kiwi cultural statement. Kind of explains why there are 1,000,000 people there. The alternate theory is that they just needed somewhere to put a gas station so people could fill up between Kaitaia and Bulls.
The rumour is that volcanic activity under Auckland is increasing and that one day One Tree Hill, Mt Hobson, Mt Wellington and all the other old volcanoes will blow their tops and wipe the place off the face of the earth. The rest of us are praying to Vulcan ...
And, if you hadn't cottoned on, Westies are the Kiwi version of rednecks. But the fact that the authors used it marks them down as Aucklanders. No one in the rest the of the country would be so crass as to use the term. Roll on the geothermal activity ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
Boy, Cap, and I thought it was the "Burms" from Birmingham that you were mad at. Boy-hidie, give you a bad feed of fish and chips and you are ready blow up the place with volcanos. And like you said..."Bulls is crap, too."
Well, try as I may, I can't generate much hatred for the Alabama version of Westies, it'd be kinda like the Rednecks calling the Trailer-trash "[white]".
But still, my beloved kin-country folk can match faux pas to faux pas with the best of yours. and if you think that "Te Awamutu is twaddle." just read below...
Errata, Alabama
Ten years after the War Between The States the L&N RR made a preliminary map for a proposed track route connecting Birmingham with the marble quarries of Sylacauga, Alabama. The map was flawed, it showed the tracks running on the wrong side of a ridge. The mapmakers caught the error and printed ERRATA at that place on the map. At that place in the real world, cotton farmers became much pleased when they found out that they had been living in the community of Errata and began acting proud. The Railroad went along with the joke and built a coaling station there with a big sign that read Errata. The town of Errata never amounted to much, but the sign is still there and Errata still appears on state maps.
Bug Tussle, Alabama
There wasn't much in the way of entertainment for a poor dirt farmer in Blount County during Prohibition. The Free Will Baptist Church provided diversions for the ladies, but the menfolk had only Saturday afternoon gatherings at Guffey's General Store to do their bonding, as it is current to call it.
One day early last century two Giant Pincher Beetle were discovered fighting in the dirt in front of the store. These Beetles fight for territory, and they fight until one throws the other on it's back. The overturned beetle can't right itself and slowly dies. Sometimes these battles go on for hours, the Beetle battle that day went on well past supper time, well after all the white lighting was gone, and in memory, it became the highlight of the menfolk's social life for years to come.
Today the Bug Tussle Steak House serves a 24 ounce steak. If you can eat all of it you don't have to pay.
City of Tarrant City City
New York City is so named so it could be easily distinguished from New York State. There is no state named Tarrant.
For whatever obscure and inane legal reason the State of Alabama township incorporation papers, incorporate the cities name in this manner...
The city of__________________city.
Insert Tarrant City into the blank and the presumptuous town is incorporated today as above.
Last year Tarrant City changed it's name to just plain Tarrant.
TEd
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
Cincinnati is on the Ohio River where the Licking River flows into it, and from this comes the earlier name, through a polyglottal process of jamming words together: ville (city en Francais) ante (across from in Latin) os (mouth in Latin) and "L" for Licking, so "City across from the mouth of the Licking River."
The city lies in Turtle Township (Turtle Creek) runs through it, and the police squadcars thus must suffer the ignominy of bearing as their insignia Turtle Police.
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