BS:Exciting News!!!! ...?

Subject: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 02:19 AM

Dull, Scotland, seeks civic link with Boring, Oregon

By Ian Johnston, msnbc.com

The Scottish village of Dull is hoping to persuade Boring, Oregon, to become "sister" communities, according to reports.

Boring's Community Planning Organization is due to vote on the idea at a meeting Tuesday, The Gresham Outlook reported.

Meanwhile, excitement is building in rural Perthshire.

Dull community councillor Marjorie Keddie told BBC News that, "everyone has been smiling at the prospect of the very eye-catching road sign this will inevitably require."

The BBC said Elizabeth Leighton, from Perthshire, came up with the idea after a cycling vacation in Oregon when she visited Boring.

Boring - population more than 12,000 - was named after William H. Boring, who fought on the Union side in the American civil war.

Dull, numbering less than 90, is thought to have got its name from the Gaelic words for a meadow or possibly a snare, the BBC said.

There is, inevitably, already a Dull & Boring Facebook page.

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There are a number of cities that have adopted "twin cities" or "sister cities" in other countries. Some of the associations have been noted in other threads, but I don't recall, and didn't find, a thread devoted to just that idea.

Perhaps some of us know of some such pairings that have had some effect on either or both of the peoples involved - that merits a comment or maybe even a song?

Or maybe someone can suggest some pairings as suitably matched as the one in the report?

John

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 02:34 AM

Can anyone find a pairing for Ugley, Essex?

~Michael~`

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 04:45 AM

Cowes, Isle of Wight?

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 07:04 AM

There IS , a suburb of Leeds Yorksire UK named Idle ! I woukld rather like a Membership card for the Idle Working Men's Club

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 07:14 AM

Little Snoring and Great Snoring in Norfolk?

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 07:54 AM

This news story is not dull, nor boring.

Dont believe everything you are told

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 08:06 AM

"We're trying to deal with it internally," he said.

You couldn't make that one up.

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 08:25 AM

Heard this on NPR, too...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 10:24 AM

Sister cities?

Fucking, Austria

and

Intercourse,Pennsylvania

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: Fergie
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 10:29 AM

There is a costal village/town in Donegal in Ireland called Muff. Their subaqua club is known as the Diving Club of Muff.

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: saulgoldie
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 10:29 AM

Yawnnnn...

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 10:31 AM

There's always Shaftsburg in Michigan, not to mention Climax and Hell.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: Bert
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 12:20 PM

You guys are 'Barking' mad.

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 01:52 PM

I'd assume that the Mamitoban delicacy actually would have been "a nutritious mixture of wild berries and grass" - as processed by the moose.

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: MikeL2
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 02:36 PM

Hi

Northwich Cheshire is just down the road from me. It is twinned with a City called DOLE.

How appropriate eh ?? And the next constituency on the border of Northwich.......Tatton .......yes George Osborne country !!!

No Kidding !!

Cheers

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: EXCITING NEWS ...?
From: GUEST,sturgeon
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 02:46 PM

'Their subaqua club is known as the Diving Club of Muff.'

No it's not. It's called the Muff Diving Club. My brother is a member.

http://www.muffdivingclub.ie/