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Cryptic clues = station name
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Loppylugs
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My wife has always referred to him as Bumphrey Hogfart.
D6130
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Hythe
Hythe (RH&DR) to be precise not to be confused with the one in Essex which is not at the end of the line.
Your turn.
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D6130
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Thanks. This one should be pretty easy:
Ian can tak' the high road and Rich can crac the low road, but who'll be in Scotland before whom?
Ian can tak' the high road and Rich can crac the low road, but who'll be in Scotland before whom?
D6130
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Indeed. Your turn to split the 156s.
Ah thank ye, mon.
By poor linguist, re spelling / pronunciation -- concerning crude and basic "corrugated" toilet hut: telling to use same, domestic fowl; or Glaswegian lady (lamely).
DaleCooper
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Portlethen
It isn't that one; but your mind is in part, in the right groove. (I tend not to be too good on Scottish stations: have been dimly aware of Portlethen -- south of Aberdeen -- but just now, it was right out of my head: had to look it up. Initially your suggestion had me thinking of Porthleven, Cornwall [to where a friend of mine has recently moved]; which has never had a railway station. Stupid boy...)
DaleCooper
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This bowdlerising business by the Net is called, I believe, "the Scunthorpe problem". I presume you refer to the place in Dorset beginning with S, near the various "Puddle / Piddle" villages (is this call-of-nature stuff a Dorset speciality?) -- indeed, a biggish always railway-less area.
(On a rather similar theme re lingo of our cross-Channel neighbours: I've always been rather tickled by the place on the one-time Reseau Breton metre-gauge network, called Merdrignac. I suspect that -- with this settlement being in Brittany -- its name is the result of "Frenchisising" of something innocuous in the Breton language.)
At all event -- beyond the toilet "conceit": my clue / answer feature nothing actually rude.
DaleCooper
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It's a good job I didn't suggest Liver***l, ****fosters, ****nal or Ligh****er.
D6130
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....not to mention P**istone!
What with all this: the estimable Thomas Bowdler -- who gave rise to the word -- lived to the age of seventy, vigorously expurgating away. If he'd been spared for many more years -- there would still have been enough material to keep him a busy guy...
DaleCooper
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Hengoed ("ed" short form of "head": heads - naval slang for toilets)
Again, on right track; and, right country -- but it isn't Hengoed. (The "corrugated" -- metaphorical -- bit: is significant.)
DaleCooper
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Llanishen
It's on a heritage line.