Junior to relocate to this UK address in 2004?

[emad]

LONDON (Reuters) - A British couple have been forced to move house because of the shame caused by the name of their street -- Butt Hole Road.

Paul and Lisa Allott sold their $250,000 bungalow in Conisbrough, northern England after living there for just 15 months, fed up with the constant leg-pulling.

Taxis and pizza delivery men would fail to turn up, thinking their order was just a prank, and they grew tired with groups of youths posing for photos by the nearby street sign with their buttocks bared.

"I like a laugh, but it was beyond a joke," Allott told the Sun newspaper.Attempts by Reuters to contact the new residents were unsuccessful -- they have taken a confidential telephone number.

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http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=3685073

More:http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003491559,00.html

[Wickerman]

1. That Stinks!

[meegbear]

2. DUPE

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=320472

[emad]

3. Missed it by a whisker.........

[sexybomber]

7. 'tis no biggie.

But I'm still going to lock the thread. Kindly continue discussion here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=320472

sexybomber
DU mod

[Zuni]

4. who names the streets over there in the UK?

They couldn't come up with anything better than Butt Hole road?
It sounds like something I would name a road for God's sake, and i am very low brow. Brits always struck me as being a little classier.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Classier, eh? Not hardly...

London used to have streets named Gropecunte Lane (ex-red light district), Stinking Lane, Blood Lane, Pissing Lane, and a few others that slip my mind at the moment.

I'd guess that the source of the name "Butt Hole Road" probably isn't scatological, though. "Butt" is an old name for "barrel". But language changes with time, so most people are ignorant of the original meaning.

[emad]

6. Maybe some prescient town planning department honcho

who wanted to get even..........