I'm thinking of affecting a Hyacinth Bouquet approach and insisting my address is Warwickshire in future.
No one really likes these modern counties.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 15:45, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

cov, cov, cov, cov, cov

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 15:45, Reply)

They filmed the shit bits of that programme in Cov.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 15:47, Reply)

Cov Homs
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 15:48, Reply)

Hyacinth.
B3ta. We have a nickname.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 15:49, Reply)

The booKAAAYYYY residence, theladyofthehouse SPEAKING

( Kroney, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 15:50, Reply)

I still refer to Middlesex like it's a place that actually exists.
I think it was wiped off the map before I was even born.
( Kroney, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 15:49, Reply)

Yeah where did it go and why?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 15:52, Reply)

Dunno. It just fucked off.

( Kroney, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 15:53, Reply)

In the 60's I think.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:01, Reply)

I'm sure it was still there when i was a nipper

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:01, Reply)

or not...
the small county became densely populated, leading to problems with its viability. It was subject to a significant loss of territory in 1889 and was abolished on 1 April 1965.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:02, Reply)

It was/is a postal district and not a county?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:02, Reply)

Coventry used to be a county in its own right, Hyacinth fans.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:05, Reply)

nobody cares

( Kroney, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:08, Reply)

I know, it is exciting.
Apparently Henry VI granted Coventry the status of a county in 1451.
It remained a county until 1842.
I can gaz you more details, if you like.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:11, Reply)

The annoying part is that Warwickshire does still exist and, for administration purposes AND geographically, we are firmly in it.
But no, for some unknown reason we get lumped in with the Yam-Yams and ridiculed for THEIR accent.
It's not as if we don't have enough problems of our own to be ridiculed for.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 15:53, Reply)

There, there. Hyacinth the Yam-Yam.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:01, Reply)

what is this "yam yam"?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:02, Reply)

Does google not work for you?
You should've got Monty to ask about that for you earlier today.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:04, Reply)

You're a Somali poet?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalil_Abdulkadir_Farah_Hersi
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:06, Reply)

Are you using a different google from the one I've got?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:07, Reply)

yeah a better one

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:08, Reply)