I’ve chosen this one for a friend
the village this week is Bell End
Some may have a keenness
to think of glans penis
Be assured this will not set a trend
Bell End is a village in the English county of Worcestershire, situated approximately 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south-east of Hagley on the A491, north of Bromsgrove and close to Kidderminster Stourbridge and Halesowen. It lies in the local government district of Bromsgrove.
On the western side of the village is Bell Hall, a Victorian Gothic mansion on the site of the original manor house. It was built in 1847 for Charles Noel, later a High Sheriff of Worcestershire, by the architect Edward Smith of Oldswinford.
The village shares its name with the British slang for the glans penis.
An intriguing piece of British slang…. that I’ve not heard before …
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You always entertain and enlighten me, Peter.
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Thank you Margo. I’m sure life was incomplete without this particular gem!
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I was merrily reading along not getting the connection. That you for clearing it up! 🙂
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😀
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SO glad this will not set a trend!
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I have to decide what to do now as I’ve gone A to Z and back to A twice!
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Hmm… how about consonants only? B, C, D, F, G… etc.
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I Googled glans penis and my virus protection software would not let me visit any of the sites.
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That is very strange since it is a medical term and every male has one!
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I am suppose to google Glands penis I suppose?
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If you really want to there is a link in the poem to the village wiki page and from that page to further information!
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Half an hour from now: “Honey what were you doing today?” “Nothing much, I googled Glands penis.” LOL
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How wonderful for Bell End!
Do they make sausages or manufacture condoms there?!?!
Fun limerick, Peter! 🙂
HUGS!!! 😀
PS…now I shall click on the link and learn more.
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I hope you are now properly informed!
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Limericks are always funner when they are a bit “naughty”. 😉 😛
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I first heard this name a couple of weeks ago until then I’d not heard it used before. I had to ask what she was referring to, it’s hardly a term that would come into every day conversation!
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We learn something new every day – whether we want to or not!
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We certainly do! If I needn’t have bothered asking her what it meant, I could have just waited for your explanation.
I do enjoy your snippets of information that just pop up willy-nilly. 🙂
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Very punny, whether intended or not!
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I thought you’d like it!
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x-rated body parts equal quality limericks.
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The truest form of the genre!
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Indeed. There’s a great scene in “The Crown” which depicts a limerick competition between LBJ and Princess Margarate. The Limericks aren’t great, but they’re certainly not PG.
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Ah, Bell End, featured in so many stories and articles about comedy place names.
You can’t help but snigger 🙂
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Google searches for ‘cockwomble’ levelled out to roughly 20 or 30 a week in the UK in the first half 2018, but then spiked in the 70s in mid-July. That was about the time Boris Johnson – a man with more culpability for this trend than most – resigned as Foreign Secretary.
And now look where he is!
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Love it! How about a series of towns with body part names?
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Yikes. I better not tell my grandson this one. He already takes pleasure in knowing Greek slang learned from his grandmother.
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Ok. I can’t stop laughing. I am 56 years old and somehow had never heard of “glans penis”. So I googled it. 🤣 I thought it would be an exotic flower or something! 🤣 Yup. Was gifted with a huge visual by Google just in case I didn’t understand the words. Alrighty then! That’s the kind of Friday it’s going to be! Thanks for the great limerick and the laugher that ensued! Cheers, Peter!!! 💖💖🤣
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The UK seems to have quite a few places with slightly “rude” names. Not surprisingly they are often small villages with few people choosing to live there!
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🤣
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