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September 15, 2007
The Answer
I'd like to thank everybody who played along in yesterday's game in which I asked you to guess which English city, county, hamlet, village, burg — one I've mentioned in a recent previous entry — the following picture brings to mind.
Jack gets spiritual points for Kent, as the photo was taken in Kent. He may have recognized the fern in the background that is known, among botany enthusiasts, to thrive in only Kent county, UK. Or, he may have used his knowledge of Lady P's sister living in Kent to his advantage. Kent, however, is not what I was looking for.
My compliments to Dave for his Yorkshire entry. Monty, the alpha dog in the photo, looks like me might have some Yorkshire Terrier in him. Yorkshire, again, isn't where I was going.
Buckeye Doc had me worried for a bit with his Penny Lane entry. He's known me for 30 years and should know how my mind works better than most readers. His wife has known me for almost the same amount of time so, between them, they have almost 60 years of knowing me between them. His later Peterborough entry bought him some WADLL Street Cred. Even though it was still wrong. [Edit: Buckeye Doc has received a Street Cred boost in the comments section of this entry.]
Mike O's Big Bone Lick was way off; he knew it and stated as much. His entry is appreciated as it proves to the rest of the world that Americans are able to come up with names just as eye catching as the one the above picture reminds me most of.
I was looking for Bagshot:
Posted by delmer at September 15, 2007 12:02 AM
Comments
mmmm......nutcase
Posted by: Jack at September 15, 2007 2:34 AM
Penny Lane??? Blimey!
My sister will be thrilled that Hamish (the black lab) has taken such a starring role in this post ;) Oh and I used to live in Peterborough, *almost* 20 years ago.
Posted by: Pen at September 15, 2007 3:53 AM
I knew you weren't looking for the actual name, I guess I didn't look at the photo close enough. um... for good reason. But it made me laugh either way.
Posted by: mikeo at September 15, 2007 8:36 AM
I was thinking ... had I been quicker with the camera I could have got the Big Bone Lick photo you suggested. And, should there be a place with such a name, I could have gotten several shots of Head Humping as the dogs has some sort of I'm in charge game going.
(Monty, perhaps due to age, seemed to always come out on top.)
Posted by: delmer at September 15, 2007 12:20 PM
Oh. Even though he is stil incorrect, I find I need to boost Buckey Doc's WADLL Street Cred by a power of 10.
Penny Lane. Very good.
What's sad is that I've known Buckye Doc for 30 years and I know his sense of wit. I should have picked up on the subtle meaning of his answer.
Instead I went with, "what?"
(What's worse is one of my boys had to point it out to me. And I'm kidding there. It was an adult person.)
Posted by: delmer at September 15, 2007 1:35 PM