There'll always be an England.

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One reason I occasionally pop a statcounter into an entry is to see just how far afield I'm getting page views from.  This one wasn't particularly far away, but it just reminded me of how gracefully tacky the Brits can be with their place-naming:

Maidenhead,   Windsor And Maidenhead,   United Kingdom

So that's what Queen Victoria was thinking about when closing her eyes- at least the first time.

Oddly, the term just came up the other night during our Hitchcock marathon. There's a scene in Trouble with Harry in the Captain's very cluttered and nautical living quarters, showing the figurehead from a ship.




 Right, one of those. Apparently, ages ago, one of Eleanor's very proper relatives was meeting another of her Ladies Who Lunch friends at a restaurant with a nautical theme. "I'll be at the table next to the maidenhead," she said.

Or on top of it, anyway.

Probably nobody else finds any of this amusing, but then, I've always had "Buster Hymen" as one of my favorite fake names for sign-in sheets and department store paging systems.

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Court calls. Avast, me hearties.

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[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

No, no, I've always been deeply amused by Maidenhead.