Mike B. FIRAXIS
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Truronian said:Any word on why The Mumbles is an English city?
Don't know... Somebody must have thought it was a cool place and put it in the city list. If I had to guess I would say "somebody" was Soren.
Truronian said:Any word on why The Mumbles is an English city?
Whomp said:Mumbles is in South Wales...the area is in fact named after the two islands, which stand sentinel at the end of the promontory. It's believed they were so called perhaps by the Romans, because of their visual similarity to 'breasts'; 'mamma' in Latin and 'mammelles' in French.
MikeB said:- Not Constantinople: The song was not originally by They Might Be Giants. It predates them by a number of years. I'm not sure who the original artist is though.
If Mike B. or another Firaxian verifies this, fine. but the expression "cutting me own throat" goes back long before Terry Pratchett....belteshazzar said:Here's a little egg: when trading, you sometimes get "Well, it's cutting me own throat..." which is a reference to Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.