I go by the rule that any place that has a cake named after it will be quite nice
See also:
Pontefract
Eccles
Bakewell
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umm the village of Sponge?
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Tue 30 Aug 2011, 11:02,
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Pontefract
Eccles
Bakewell
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umm the village of Sponge?
I know I drive past Eccles on a regular basis.
It's an area of Salford - might well be the exception to your rule.
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Tue 30 Aug 2011, 11:06,
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Having never visited, I remain fast in the belief
that it is a charming bucolic rural village, where hardy handed sons of the soil, toil in the sun blessed fields, waiting for the sound of the ECCLES-HORN that heralds the arrival of the ECCLE-GAFFER who distributes said cake to all working men, who give hearty cheers and proceed to dance in the Lancashire fashion.
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Tue 30 Aug 2011, 11:11,
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...and the M60 is naught but a sleepy turnpike where twice a day the oxen pull their carts laden with raisins and suet for use in the manufacture of said delicacy.
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Tue 30 Aug 2011, 11:15,
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Devil's Food Cake, Berkshire is quite pleasant
But avoid Dundee. I briefly passed through there and I gained 2 anecdotes.
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Tue 30 Aug 2011, 11:07,
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Dundee's quite nice
so long as you frequent the scummy areas.
Dundee Neds are innefectual and quite nice. It's the posh bastards you have to watch out for.
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Tue 30 Aug 2011, 11:27,
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Dundee Neds are innefectual and quite nice. It's the posh bastards you have to watch out for.