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Ottery St Mary -Devon "not very ottery at all"

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Started 2 years ago by MrChigleysAunt
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MrChigleysAunt

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Posted 2 years ago #
saltire

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Try buying her a few drinks first ya tightwad.

Posted 2 years ago #
MrChigleysAunt

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That's an interesting take on it. I meant that it's distinguished by dearth of otters. The otterlessness is terrific in fact.

Posted 2 years ago #
rickwestwell

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You're not looking in the right places. I'm from round that way, and was practically raised by otters.
You have to know where to find them.

We have a fellow biscuiteer living in Ottery, I believe - maybe he can confirm what I say.

Reminds me - I've always thought that Zimbabwe's Harare under president Mugabe would be one of the places with the least "Hoorah"-ing going on.

Posted 2 years ago #
PluckyMunky

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I think as you have facilitated such an interesting debate, Mr Aunt, you deserve a full handful.

Posted 2 years ago #
Scroat

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Not to be confused with I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Ottery...

Posted 2 years ago #
rickwestwell

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With its fierce local rival, Ottery Buttery...

Posted 2 years ago #
PluckyMunky

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Not forgetting, Ottery Buggery...a rival to seal squenching.

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MrChigleysAunt

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Thank you Plucky. I had begun to regret my posting - thinking it had all got far too complicated. But having been out for an hour or so, it's pleasant to return to some stars.

Posted 2 years ago #
edward hack

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I live about 10 miles away
It is where Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born and they have a lovely church.
Somebody's dad called it 'Utterly St.Mary' which has a nice ring to it.
I found a giant dead otter just down the road in Sidmouth a while back - so it is certainly less ottery than it used to be.
Otterless St.mary sounds a bit sad.

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virtuallywill

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Maybe less Ottery but there are more beavers down this way.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2008/06/16/escot_beavers_feature.shtml

So maybe St.Mary's Beaver is a better name.
I'm about 5 miles from Crapstone.

Posted 2 years ago #
Stan Laurel

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We live near the village of Butterleigh in Devon.
Often been tempted to adjust their sign to read "Utterleigh Butterleigh"

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MrChigleysAunt

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Nice story about the beavers virtuallywill. 400 years! I hadn't realised planning permission took so long.
But OK, I accept that my original piece of whimsy was let down by poor research on my part. Ottery St Mary is actually pretty ottery in the scheme of things and I'm happy to set the record straight.

Posted 2 years ago #
Griffin

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Reminds me of a small, but famous, village in Austria which roughly translates to 'sexual intercourse'

Posted 2 years ago #
virtuallywill

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Or Finger, North Carolina, Griffin?

Posted 2 years ago #
Oxbridge

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There's a suburb of Bern called Wankdorf. I went there but alas wasn't.

Posted 2 years ago #
andhrimnir

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I've said it before when we were discussing coypu but I'll say it again
forget your squirrels

Posted 2 years ago #
Zadok the second

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FYI Oxy: Wankdorf Stadium is actually the home of Young Boys.

Posted 2 years ago #
Oxbridge

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[37 Catholic church gags omitted here]

Posted 2 years ago #
Doctor Moptop

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I expect Brooklyn Beckham was relieved his parents hadn't visited Iron Knob, Australia at the time of his conception.

Imagine having to live up to that?

BTW Intercourse is in Pennsylvania. Next door to Bird in Hand. Food's terrible.

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