Our brand new Whatsapp line is up and running (087-4100102, since you asked) and this morning I got so many messages into the Early Breakfast from all over the world.
Sydney! Bahrain! Dubai! Canada! South Africa! Hong Kong! Singapore! Finland! Sweden! And Franz Josef in New Zealand, which I thought was a joke.
It wasn’t – it’s a real place. As are these, as donated by the listeners of the Early Breakfast:
- “Good morning Paula, we were doing some work for Vodafone. We were in Muff and Boobyglass and we got a good giggle out of it!” - Jim
- “Morning Paula. The town of Dull in Scotland is twinned with the town of Boring in Oregon in the States while the town of Bland in Oz want to join them. And I'm from Hospital in Limerick.” - Jim now in Abbeyleix
- “Bastardstown - it's in south Co, Wexford!” - Mick
- “Paula I'm from Shercock in Cavan when people ask where I'm from they start to laugh!” - Emmet in Cavan
- “Paula what about Hackballscross in Co. Louth?” - Sinead
- “Hey Paula, there's a Hotel in Virginia called the "Kill More" close to the crematorium... very apt. Love your show. You keep me company every morning!” - Niamh
- “Paula my children were born next to a village called Pratt's Bottom, in Kent England!” - Tommy the Tonka.
- “Ballylickey, Paula – I’m from there! It’s in Cork!” – Pat
- “Paula I used to live in Dickward Drive in Fannie Bay in Darwin!” – Seamus
- “Hi Paula, Will here. Black Knob is a place in Waterford. Nearly died laughing in geography class when we spotted it on the map!”
- “Paula, there’s a place in Western Australia called Cockburn. The locals are embarrassed by it so they pronounce it Co-Burn!”
- “Cockermouth in Donegal!” – Damien
- “Eh, Sally’s Gap is a bad one Paula!”
- “Once went through a place in Cavan called Killawilly Paula!”
- “You’d be hard pushed to find a worse place name than Nobber in Co Meath!”
- “Doody’s Bottom Paula, on my life!”
- “Legwee anyone?!”
- “Fannystown in Co Tyrone always makes me laugh Paula, heehee!”
- “Hi Paula. There is a place in Leitrim called Gowel!” - Brian in Leitrim
- “Cockermouth in Cumbria, UK!” – Rayme, Monaghan
- “Muff in Donegal and there is a diving centre there – yep, the Muff Diving club!”
- “In Wexford there is place called Bastardstown and Horeswood (also has a Lousybush)”
