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Post by granny2 on Jun 2, 2012 6:36:58 GMT -5
Waylonville is named after my grandson ( age 5), not to original ,but we had named it that when he started planning My Town. I watched him for several days, not necessarily seeing the big draw. Ever so often, he would say, "Granny, I've been good, can you buy this?" because he needed more coins or bucks foe something. Wanting to see what I was spending my real money on I visited his town one night. The rest is history -- it is now My Town, but still--Waylonville!
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Post by darrennie on Jun 2, 2012 21:09:58 GMT -5
Great idea for a thread Raven.
My town "Arizona Bay" is from one of my favourite songs by one of my favourite bands.
Aenima by Tool
On another note there is a incredible show about Crows & Ravens that aired last year on "The Nature of Things" with David Suzuki (CBC) called "A Murder of Crows" that I highly recommend to you Raven.
Learn to swim ;D
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Post by Raven on Jun 2, 2012 21:50:10 GMT -5
Hey will watch out for it darennie! Thanks - I love this thread - its amazing how many of us have taken the game over from a child or grandchild  mine was from my grand !!!! Lol Raven 29067906 |
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Post by Raven on Jun 6, 2012 11:57:09 GMT -5
I'm after some new stories! Like a story from Whirligiggyville!?!?!? how is it spelled?  And some of the other towns have intriguing names as well ! So thought I would post to bring this thread back to the surface! Raven 29067906 |
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Post by Ya Phyl Me on Jun 6, 2012 20:47:58 GMT -5
I'm after some new stories! Like a story from Whirligiggyville!?!?!? how is it spelled? And some of the other towns have intriguing names as well ! So thought I would post to bring this thread back to the surface! Raven 29067906 Whirligiggyville is one I'm interested in knowing as well.... |
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Post by cmeister23 on Jun 6, 2012 20:51:29 GMT -5
I'm after some new stories! Like a story from Whirligiggyville!?!?!? how is it spelled? And some of the other towns have intriguing names as well ! So thought I would post to bring this thread back to the surface! Raven 29067906 Whirligiggyville is one I'm interested in knowing as well.... Yep me too. Do tell. |
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Post by March Vegas on Jun 7, 2012 7:53:15 GMT -5
Good idea, this. About 10 years ago, a guy I worked with started calling me Shabba after Mr Ranks who sang Mr Loverman (yes, he called me it for the reason you're thinking  ) and now, after all these years, my ringtone is that song. I live in a multicultural suburb with lots of people of West Indian origin, who tend to call their homes their 'yard', hence Shabba's Yard. London? |
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Post by The FER on Jun 7, 2012 8:00:11 GMT -5
Good idea, this. About 10 years ago, a guy I worked with started calling me Shabba after Mr Ranks who sang Mr Loverman (yes, he called me it for the reason you're thinking ) and now, after all these years, my ringtone is that song. I live in a multicultural suburb with lots of people of West Indian origin, who tend to call their homes their 'yard', hence Shabba's Yard. London? Nope. I'm not a soft Southern ponce |
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Post by JayeGirl on Jun 7, 2012 8:55:24 GMT -5
Nope. I'm not a soft Southern ponce Lol, lets not start the North/South divide again Are you in the north west, Manchester or Brum maybe? |
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Post by JayeGirl on Jun 7, 2012 8:58:25 GMT -5
I soooo need to get a new town name, how boring it's just my name! Well most North Americans get my name but in England people tend to assume it's short for Jason hence I started to use JayeGirl when I'm on the net and have been using it for a long time now. People think I am just giving my initial when I say my complete name lol. Or ask what is Jaye short for |
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Post by March Vegas on Jun 7, 2012 9:59:48 GMT -5
Nope. I'm not a soft Southern ponce Lol, just a soft northern ponce then! Lol ;D |
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Post by whirligigville on Jun 7, 2012 20:42:18 GMT -5
I'm after some new stories! Like a story from Whirligiggyville!?!?!? how is it spelled? And some of the other towns have intriguing names as well ! So thought I would post to bring this thread back to the surface! Raven 29067906 Wow!  I didn’t know “whirligigville” would get so much attention! Well, I hope I have an interesting enough story to tell you… It comes from my sister. We are both from Taiwan and she learned the word “whirligig” from the book “The most important English vocabulary you need to learn to prepare an English test.” She used this word to describe a toy we played with when we were young. All her American friends just looked at her and said “what?” Everyone laughed after they figured out what “it” is and always make jokes about it. ;D Anyway, one of the translations of “whirligig” in Chinese is the toy top. |
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Post by Raven on Jun 7, 2012 21:00:01 GMT -5
Thank you whirligigville!! It was a good story - what a world we live in and now our curiosity has been satisfied !!!! +1 coming your way Raven 29067906 |
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Post by cmeister23 on Jun 7, 2012 21:37:04 GMT -5
+1 from me too! Thanks for telling the story. I was also waiting to hear it. I enjoyed the story too!
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Post by The FER on Jun 8, 2012 4:50:02 GMT -5
Nope. I'm not a soft Southern ponce Lol, lets not start the North/South divide again Are you in the north west, Manchester or Brum maybe? No hun, see my avatar? Bingo! For you to suggest M@nchester, of all places, I'm disgusted! |
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Post by The FER on Jun 8, 2012 4:50:41 GMT -5
Nope. I'm not a soft Southern ponce Lol, just a soft northern ponce then! Lol ;D I believe the correct terminolgoy is 'Northern Monkey' ;D |
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Post by sommerlou on Jun 8, 2012 5:09:02 GMT -5
I recently moved to Green Valley Ranch which is a suburb of Denver, CO, it's out by the airport and pretty far out for people....my sister started calling it shireville when she'd come over and her and I now have running jokes about having sintars with flutes, fairies and other ridiculous stuff in my neighborhood (my favorite, it doesn't snow in shireville, its actually glitter..LOL)...we now have all our friends calling it The Shire.. Anyway, that's my story!! |
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Post by The FER on Jun 8, 2012 5:11:31 GMT -5
I recently moved to Green Valley Ranch which is a suburb of Denver, CO, it's out by the airport and pretty far out for people....my sister started calling it shireville when she'd come over and her and I now have running jokes about having sintars with flutes, fairies and other ridiculous stuff in my neighborhood (my favorite, it doesn't snow in shireville, its actually glitter..LOL)...we now have all our friends calling it The Shire.. Anyway, that's my story!! Perhaps Booyah will release some special stuff when The Hobbit is released. That would make your Shire perfect! A few Bilbos kicking about, maybe Dark Lord here and there... the possibilities are endless! |
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Post by March Vegas on Jun 8, 2012 6:39:27 GMT -5
Lol, just a soft northern ponce then! Lol ;D I believe the correct terminolgoy is 'Northern Monkey' ;D Your words not mine! Lol |
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Post by bleeping slootie on Jun 8, 2012 7:25:20 GMT -5
Oh, thanks for resurrecting this thread. The question of my name came up on another thread but I will post it again here.
bleeping slootie = sleeping beauty.
Someone special to me used to call me Sleeping Beauty and when my oldest child was very young, he tried the name out and "bleeping slootie" was the result. The name stuck ...
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And some of the other towns have intriguing names as well ! So thought I would post to bring this thread back to the surface! 
) and now, after all these years, my ringtone is that song. I live in a multicultural suburb with lots of people of West Indian origin, who tend to call their homes their 'yard', hence Shabba's Yard.
