a taxi driver..... picked his butt.....

Classic.

I thought it had been named after a certain author and ex-jailbird: from Butt Hole to arsehole.

Btw, I drove past Whipass lane on Sunday. No doubt that will succomb to the language police soon, despite it obviously referring to donkeys.

Surely thats inviting "Archer takes aim at Butt Hole" type headlines.

And is "An Archer of butt hole road" listed in Rogers profanasaurus along side "Sailor of the windward passage"

The Butts were places where archery was practised.

Perhaps your research needed to go beyond The Sun and Wikipedia.

http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/help/help.asp?code=BTThes/a/68831.htm

There's a road called Butt Hedge in Long Marston, just outside York (and a few miles from where I live) - I'm fully aware of the toxophilogical connection but it still never fails to raise a snigger.

they just get people puking over the sign after drinking a bottle of a peach flavoured schnapps drink?

make pilgrimage, must make pilgrimage...

Sad : (

It's sad when you lose some of that eccentricity that makes this country still a great place to live in sometimes, but I suppose if I had to live there I would not be quite so open minded about it!

There's a local firm that for years was called T Butt & Son, but a couple of years ago they changed to Travis Perkins, which is abbreviated to TP on their signs.

From Butt to TP...

"It's good to see that mindless obscene language isn't limited to just the UK :) The F-word, England’s major contribution to international communication."

Ahh yesss, the most versatile work in the English language where it can be a noun, a verb, a pronoun and an adverb, is English the only language where one can create a sentence like:-

The fu©king Fu©king's* fu©king fu©ker is fu©king fu©cked

* Our favourite town in Germany (or is it Austria?)

Paris, who much prefers Intercourse in Connecticut in the US of ‘Merkin-land

and we can change it back

Wookey Hole. Has George Lucas been randomly naming our topography again?

Cos here in Sussex we have the hamlets of Cocking and Filching (which aren't that geographically close btw)

Oh and there's a hill in Cornwall called Brown Willy.

Not bad, butt

There used to be a pharmacy in Dublin called "Fannin Healthcare", the name was above the shop front in 3D letters and painted on the side of the building.

The place was also be routinely vandalised to remove the last "n" from the first word of the name.....

Paris, who is also interested in healthcare

Whoa! You have a Whipass Lane in your neighborhood? Lucky bastard. You should worry less about the Language Police and more about losing your chance to cash in before everybody and their cat starts tour photo concessions and selling replica signage.

Or, perhaps have a run of custom-packaged beer for sale (do you do that over there?), so I can fly all the way to England to have my picture taken actually, literally opening up A Can Of Whipass (or Whoopass, as we say over here).

I'm hurt that my distant cousins in the UK would hiding this little nugget of joy (dingle berry?) from the world for this long.

I'm sure Paris is very disappointed as well!

With the all time winner, Gropecunt lane.

Paris, oh puuhlease.... If I need to explain that one...

In the old days they knew how to do it....

Love Lane, off Fleet Street used to be called Gropecunt Lane. Apparently Citylink won't deliver there either.....

...Gropecunt Lane:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_lane

not far from where I live is a road the revels in the name of "Adams Bottom" even more amusing is that this road is also home to one of the local parks... imagine the hilarity that ensues.

On slow news weeks, the local papers are always full of indignant "Adams Bottom" dwellers (see? hours of fun!) decrying the rest of the town for taking the piss

Consider that the Thai "ph" letter pair sounds like a 'p', and imagine my delight to find a property listing in "Hang Dong, Phu Ping".

For sheer wonder, however, you can't beat Newfoundland, Canada -- where you can live in "Witless Bay" or, heaven help you, "Dildo".

and never mind who put the T in britain.

What about scunthorpe?

Upper Swan

Innaloo

Hi, I've just looked and Letsby Ave is indeed in Streetview, and if you go to the end at "Letsby Ave, Norton, Sheffield S9 1, United Kingdom" there is a police van. Cool

is Slut's Hole Lane (from the Dutch apparently), and right in the heart of Norwich the equally attractive Upper Goat Lane