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Title: Mixed up places
Post by: grahame on October 21, 2007, 09:09:51
Can you identify these places?

1. Dearly

2. Grained

3. Overtint

4. Lower

5. Mailless

6. Ethan


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: Conner on October 21, 2007, 09:14:55
4.Worle
Know a few more but i'll leave them for someone else.


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: grahame on October 21, 2007, 09:36:16
4.Worle
Know a few more but i'll leave them for someone else.

Yes - and thanks - "one each" is a good idea!


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: TerminalJunkie on October 21, 2007, 10:20:11
2. Reading

Number 3 isn't strictly correct, though: how about 'Wavy Kent Airport'?


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: grahame on October 21, 2007, 10:28:37
2. Reading

Number 3 isn't strictly correct, though

You're right on both counts.


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: TerminalJunkie on October 21, 2007, 10:55:27
Here's a few more:
6. Settles a dim problem
7. Poignant
8. Cancel fir draft
9. Raw whales rind
10. Planet bras
11. Want boob net
12. Legs to cure
13. Pinch me, pah
14. Tricky dado paw
15. Swell shirt brochure



Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: grahame on October 21, 2007, 11:01:20
I'm really bad at working these out but I think 7 may be Paington ...


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: devon_metro on October 21, 2007, 11:33:54
Personally I think 7 is Paignton

 ;D


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: grahame on October 21, 2007, 12:21:09
Personally I think 7 is Paignton

 ;D

I never could smell properly!


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: TerminalJunkie on October 21, 2007, 15:53:20
Quote from: grahame
I'm really bad at working these out

Then why start the thread? ::)


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: grahame on October 28, 2007, 08:04:21
Quote from: grahame
I'm really bad at working these out

Then why start the thread? ::)

That killed it :o .... do I spot a "Cardiff Central" somewhere there in yours too?
Mine were:

1. Dearly
2. Grained (Solved as Reading)
3. Overtint (Missing a "Parkway" ....)
4. Lower (Solved as Worle)
5. Mailless
6. Ethan

Yours:

6. Settles a dim problem
7. Poignant  (Paignton !)
8. Cancel fir draft       (Cardiff Central)
9. Raw whales rind
10. Planet bras
11. Want boob net
12. Legs to cure
13. Pinch me, pah
14. Tricky dado paw
15. Swell shirt brochure


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: TerminalJunkie on October 28, 2007, 09:33:02
Quote from: grahame
do I spot a "Cardiff Central" somewhere there in yours too?
Yup.

1. Dearly Radley

5. Mailless Sea Mills

6. Ethan Neath



Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: grahame on October 28, 2007, 10:33:04
And a Chippenham at 13 ....


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: moonraker on October 29, 2007, 01:12:05
12. Gloucester :)


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: TerminalJunkie on October 29, 2007, 14:15:57
In a desperate effort to keep this thread alive, here's five more:

16. Ten Hebrew immigrants
17. Meant to sculpt a horn
18. Kidnap by a worm
19. Vexatious abductor raid
20. Newer mousetraps


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: grahame on October 29, 2007, 14:57:04
I'm a programmer ... I'm lazy and have written a program to do it :-\

Filling in the first batch:

6. Bristol Temple Meads
8. Dawlish Warren
10. Barnstaple
11. Newton Abbot
14. Didcot Parkway
15. Worcester Shrub Hill

Personally, I can never forget that a particular town (not in the FGW area) has an anagram of "Wanker" - thanks to Jasper Carrot,, and the fact that I knew someone who moved to there.



Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: vacman on October 29, 2007, 15:44:00
NEWARK!

also, can you spot the rude word in SCUNTHORPE!


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: Conner on October 29, 2007, 21:13:23
3. Tiverton(Parkway)


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: TerminalJunkie on October 30, 2007, 00:48:36
Five more, as I'm bored:

21. Lets pop once
22. Diverts sex date
23. On screwy tents
24. Lean condom symptom
25. Melt a slovenly pig


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: grahame on October 30, 2007, 07:11:05
earth-wind-and-fire:~/oct07 grahamellis$ perl ogado (http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=p212/ogado)
Anagram? 24. Lean condom symptom
'24. Lean condom symptom' is  Lympstone Commando - LYC
Anagram? 16. Ten Hebrew immigrants
'16. Ten Hebrew immigrants' is not known
Anagram? 18. Kidnap by a worm
'18. Kidnap by a worm' is  Bodmin Parkway - BOD
Anagram?
earth-wind-and-fire:~/oct07 grahamellis$

Can you spot the seriously sad programmer .... and the train company that doesn't list Birmingham New Steet amongst its places served  ;)

I am, by the way, one of those poor souls who got so bored with Sudoku that I wrote a Sudoku helper (http://www.wellho.net/demo/sudoku.php4) ...


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: TerminalJunkie on November 07, 2007, 18:14:38
Everyone seems to have given up, so:

21. Lets pop once - Copplestone
22. Diverts sex date - Exeter St Davids
23. On screwy tents - Newton St Cyres
[...]
25. Melt a slovenly pig - Lympstone Village

Quote from: grahame
Personally, I can never forget that a particular town (not in the FGW area) has an anagram of "Wanker"
Listeners of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue also have trouble forgetting that Finsbury Park spelt backwards is 'Krapy Rub Snif' :D


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: grahame on November 07, 2007, 20:11:34
Listeners of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue also have trouble forgetting that Finsbury Park spelt backwards is 'Krapy Rub Snif' :D

Thanks for the completions ... and for that "Finsbury Park".   Hmm.   It's rare that words fail me!


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: smokey on December 29, 2007, 14:18:45
I don't understand, mind you My PC is still Gas powered.


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: smokey on January 01, 2008, 11:45:35
Ok you Smart******, like what's the answer to 16, 17, 19 and 20


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: grahame on January 01, 2008, 13:34:20
Ok you Smart******, like what's the answer to 16, 17, 19 and 20

Anagram? meanttosculptahorn
'meanttosculptahorn' is  Southampton Central - SOU
Anagram? Vexatious abductor raid
'Vexatious abductor raid' is  St Budeaux Victoria Road - SBV
Anagram? Newer mousetraps
'Newer mousetraps' is  Weston-Super-Mare - WSM
Anagram? Ten Hebrew immigrants
'Ten Hebrew immigrants' is not known
Anagram?



Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: smokey on January 01, 2008, 21:51:10
Ten Hebrew Immigrants works out at that Awful place,

BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET

Do I get a Prize?


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: TerminalJunkie on August 21, 2010, 15:53:51
Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but I've found a big map full of anagrams:

http://www.pedt.demon.co.uk/network_rail/rational-nail.htm (http://www.pedt.demon.co.uk/network_rail/rational-nail.htm)


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: inspector_blakey on August 22, 2010, 03:24:41
...by someone who apparently thinks that "A Merchant" is an anagram of "Carmarthen". Now, I may have had a few, but I'm pretty sure the former has only 9 letters whilst the latter has 10. We're missing an 'r' somewhere...


Title: Re: Mixed up places
Post by: JayMac on August 22, 2010, 04:37:46
I do like the idea that I travel regularly through "SPLATTERED EMBOLISM". I tend to avoid the "Lofty Wide Baboon" because "Yacht Paw" (not on the map) is more convenient. My local station is "Shat Morphine"

And there's the station that I regularly travel to that I try and avoid naming on the forum for superstitious reasons - but I think I'm safe in mentioning "Not Tuna".  ;D

I'm disappointed to note that "Helm Mask"  is not on the map......



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