A few miles up the road from where I live
Is a village called Shilbottle. It is signposted from the A1 and someone, years ago, put a little cross bar on the 'l'.

It still makes me giggle when I drive past. I'm pushing 40.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 17 Sep 2009, 16:54, 11 replies)

Shilbottte
I don't get it...
(ComplexStuff Was confused by life on, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 18:26, closed)

I should have said
The first 'l'

:)
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 17 Sep 2009, 18:29, closed)

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there used to be a blank road sign in Milton Keynes pointing into an empty field (this wasnt unusual for MK, the fields would later become housing estates, and the blank signs had been put there in readiness).
Someone had stencilled the words "Plum Bottoms" onto the blank sign. I was never sure why they chose those words, but it made me laugh every time I drove past it.
(Lionel Tiger, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 19:18, closed)

Plump Bottoms
The sign's still there(on the H8 heading towards Kingston, just before the V10 roundabout), or was a few weeks ago when I last went past it. It actually used to say Plump Bottoms, but some while ago the second P seems to have disappeared.
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 9:36, closed)

I always
assumed that it originally said 'plump', but somehow its funnier as 'plum'.

Indeed it is still there, and has been fo many years now.
(Lionel Tiger, Sat 19 Sep 2009, 12:03, closed)

That's a bit slow for the A1

( Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Fri 18 Sep 2009, 2:43, closed)

Yes, but
don't you also live moderately near 'Pity Me'? If it helps at all there's a hill in Cornwall called Brown Willy, which at the age of about 10 amused me for a good 90 minutes on holiday down there.
(berk, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 16:12, closed)

Norfolk n'good
This is near Norwich:

www.flickr.com/photos/simonsteward/372221374/
(square go, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 18:22, closed)

Do not forget
Shitlington Crag/Hall, neither of which is too far away.
(Sathington Willoughby, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 18:16, closed)

One of those village signs disappeared about twelve years ago and found its way to South Wales
Not that I'd know anything about that...
( eXOBeX, Sat 19 Sep 2009, 16:11, closed)

Hee Hee !
I pass it every time we go up to see Ma and Pa in Bamburgh. I've been reading the signs as Shitbottle for as long as I can remember :D
( rabbitz, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 8:56, closed)