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Potty, Fartwell and Knob by Russell Ash (view source)
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|pages=256
|publisher=Headline Book Publishing
|date=4 Oct October 2007
|isbn=978-0755316540
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If you've ever trawled aghast through the 'births' column of your local
In this respect, the book will appeal to some of those those who enjoyed
the odd place names in Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's [[''The Meaning of Liff]]''. Though ''Potty, Fartwell and Knob'' does lack Liff's comicgenius. After all, it is little more than a list, albeit one enlivenedby authorial comment and the clever arrangement of the names.
Much of this goes unremarked. Like the fact that George Fatman was born
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|comment= A friend's husband is a paediatrician and tells fab horror stories of children called Channel (because the parents though that's how Coco spelt it) and Nokia (because her dad was a big fan of the phones). Sounds like they got off quite easy in the grand scheme of things considering the names in this book.
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|comment= Excellent - I suppose it could have been worse: they could have spelt it 'Charnel'.
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