Maybe this explains why Lord Grantham’s yellow lab received such poor veterinary care?
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no we didn’t.
Like when you email your parents to let them know you’re graduating summa cum laude…
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Reminds me of an online game I used to play, in which the word “tit”, among others, was censored, as well as any word containing it. You just couldn’t post a message with that suit of letters.
The workaround I found when I discussed competition with other players was to write “compeboobion” instead.
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Could make for a fun news story if we link all the Scunthorpe examples together.
The Olympic compeboober, shortly after graduating summa semen laude, was the target of a buttbuttination attempt en route to his family home in Svaginahorpe. Sadly, despite his sturdy consbreastution, he sucsemenbed to his injuries.
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It’s my daughter’s middle name, in fact. And there’s a 504 liaison at her school named “Icis”, as well. Good thing I haven’t used Paypal since the Regretsy charity debacle.
In other news, the “war on terror” will soon be renamed “the war on words vaguely associated with things that scare us.”
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In theory, as long as they get their postcode correct, it’d probably work.
(UK postcodes are a lot more specific to zipcodes, more akin to the 9-digit zips. A house name/number + postcode technically works. If you’ve lived there a while and have a reliable postman, a surname + postcode will probably work too)
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It’s a particularly strange breed of stupidity at work here.
If I live at 742 Criminal Mastermind lane, that is not evidence that I’m engaged in illegal activity, just as living on Baker St doesn’t make me skilled with dough.
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It might even work without the postcode, as long as it wasn’t time critical.
When I was a kid, I remember my mum getting a badly addressed letter that had been to Carloway, Outer Hebredes and Caerleon, Wales before someone worked out it was meant to go to Carlisle, Cumbria. It took about a month to deliver though.
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Bravo!
I like this story - the letter was succesfully delivered.
(iirc there was a follow up - the address sticker fell off, but it already reached the correct delivery area)
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Reminds me of one I had in a book of brain teasers. The address:
WOOD
JOHN
MASS
Clearly an old one, as no one could imagine that working today.
John Underwood, Massachussetts?
Oh, Andover. At least I had it headed in the right direction.
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