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Whacko in Waco

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In an idle moment, mighty WORD correspondent JOHN NAUGHTON finds himself extending the 'Sleepless in Seattle' minor ailment franchise.

Breathless in Baltimore
Incontinent in Indianapolis
Anaemic in Anaheim
Constipated in Concord
Flatulent in Flatbush
Asthmatic in Albuquerque
Jaundiced in Jacksonville
Nauseous in Nashville
Anxious in Anchorage
Bronchial in Baton Rouge

Any other readers care to add?

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surely

Doubled Over in Dublin

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Pat Carty | 24 April 2008 - 3:11pm

Maybe?

Vomiting in 'Vegas?

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Steve Hill | 24 April 2008 - 3:16pm

Erm...

could you explain that one a little more, Pat?
In the meantime, I'm sure Incensed in Islington was appropriate recently.

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Paul | 24 April 2008 - 3:16pm

?

What's to explain? Perhaps you've ingested too much stout and, in this advanced state of refreshment, your stomach decides to empty itself through the northern orifice hence "doubled over".

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Pat Carty | 24 April 2008 - 3:21pm

Just checking,

you can't be too sure these days, Pat.
Anyway;
Shingles in Shoreditch
Chickenpox in Chiswick
Rheumatic in Rotherhithe
Hot Flushes in Harrow
and lastly;
Wind in The Willows Shopping Centre (Torquay)

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Paul | 24 April 2008 - 3:37pm

Matron!

I see now how it could have been "taken the wrong way"

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Pat Carty | 24 April 2008 - 5:00pm

It could well have led to an unpleasant entry like

Sciatica in Sodom

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Paul | 24 April 2008 - 5:16pm

Bilious in

Bilious in Billericay
Exhausted in Exeter
Hungover in Hanover
Tender in Tennessee
Poorly in Poole Harbour
Wrecked in Wrexham
Touching Cloth in Tunbridge (not strictly a medical term )

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Mondo | 24 April 2008 - 3:19pm

How about

Sore head in Southend

If you don't mow that lawn tomorrow...

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JoanneC | 25 April 2008 - 9:20am

Once stayed at a house in the Lakes

at which someone had written an annoyingly twee entry in the Visitors' Book about what he got up to on his holiday: he'd skidded down Skiddaw, ambled round Ambleside etc. etc. As the house was only a mile or so from the charming Cumbrian market town it was only the restraint of my dear wife which stopped me posing the obvious question about what he'd got up to in Cockermouth.

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Richard Lowe | 24 April 2008 - 3:22pm

never mind all that...

who the hell let Mark Ellen lose on t'interweb...if we're not careful, he'll start editing his Wikipedia entry...

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ivan | 24 April 2008 - 3:26pm

Fraser

I bet Fraser did it for him.

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Twangothan | 24 April 2008 - 4:35pm

Hyperventilating in Hackensack

Dyspeptic in Daytona
Priapic in Peoria
Panic in Detroit, er, no, hang on . . .

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Archie Valparaiso | 24 April 2008 - 3:30pm

Febrile in Falkirk.

Flatulent in Farnborough
Foolhardy in Falmouth

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Suzy Pepper | 24 April 2008 - 4:08pm

Florid in Florida

Florid in Florida
Listless in Liverpool
A Scot in Ascot
Unwell in Hanwell
Healing in Ealing
Eating in Eton
Windy in Windsor

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Leedsboy | 24 April 2008 - 4:13pm

Pardon?

Being a Scot is an ailment?

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Fraser Lewry | 24 April 2008 - 4:14pm

errmmm

no

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Leedsboy | 24 April 2008 - 4:23pm

OK

Just checking. Wasn't sure myself.

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Fraser Lewry | 24 April 2008 - 4:25pm

I think

I got carried away and thought it rather clever.

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Leedsboy | 24 April 2008 - 5:00pm

Trumping in Trumpington

Trenchfoot in Trenchtown

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Sven Garlic | 24 April 2008 - 4:22pm

Alma mata

Hitching in Hitchin

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Twangothan | 24 April 2008 - 4:34pm

Malingering in Manhattan

Sounds like every movie Woody Allen's ever made.

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Archie Valparaiso | 24 April 2008 - 4:46pm

Psoriatic in Sausolito

Tenebrous in Tehachape
Busted Flat* in Baton Rouge
Hamstrung in Hampton

* rare condition first observed by Professor Kristofferson.

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Vulpes Vulpes | 24 April 2008 - 5:08pm

Pox in

Pox in Pocklington
Hypochondria* in Hyderabad (*only disease I haven't got, boom boom)
Lethargy in Littlehampton (until those spam emails did the trick)

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adze thuggery | 24 April 2008 - 5:14pm

Buffaloed in Buffalo

Constant in Opal.

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skirky | 24 April 2008 - 5:14pm

Nice one

then Entertained in Houston

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Twangothan | 25 April 2008 - 9:32am

stockport

Shagged out in Stockport

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Bingham | 24 April 2008 - 5:29pm

the old ones are the best

Acne (near Shoreditch)

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Indus | 24 April 2008 - 7:27pm

One from my neck of the woods

Unstable in Dunstable

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Pete Kavanagh | 24 April 2008 - 8:53pm

Ha Ha!

That's just genius...

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JoanneC | 25 April 2008 - 9:23am

Haemorrhoids in Hemel Hempsted

A f#cked knee in Putney
The heebie-jeebies in Fiji
Collywobbles in Colorado
Rickets in Rickmansworth

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Joe Muggs | 24 April 2008 - 9:23pm

Comatose in Cleethorpes

:)

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Patrick Crowther | 25 April 2008 - 7:12am

Obnoxious in Oxford

Nearer to home

Lecherous in Lichfield
Balmy in Birmingham
Tosser in Tamworth (there are a few of them)
Asshole in Aston (there are a few of them too)

Loony in London
Nutter in Nottingham
Shyster in Sheffield
Batty from Battersea

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Steve Turner | 25 April 2008 - 11:49am

Obese

in Oxford I would say, as it is more like an 'ailment'. Except that apparently Oxford is one of the places with the lowest levels of obesity in the country - he says, as if this is an exercise with any actual meaning or purpose.

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Sven Garlic | 25 April 2008 - 12:00pm

Negative...!

Stand outside the Westgate Shopping Centre on a Saturday and your eyes would provide you with plenty of evidence to the contrary, trust me.

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Patrick Crowther | 26 April 2008 - 5:55am

Well yes I agree

I know what you mean.

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Sven Garlic | 26 April 2008 - 9:28pm

Grim...

in Grimsby

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Dave Holley | 25 April 2008 - 12:36pm

MMMMm!

Couched potatoed in Chesterfield

Redundant in Workington

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Bingham | 25 April 2008 - 4:32pm

Rhumatic in...

... Ruislip.

Never been myself, mind. (That's rhumatic - nor Ruislip for that matter)

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Reno Dakota | 25 April 2008 - 5:48pm

'Shroomed...

in Froom.

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Patrick Crowther | 26 April 2008 - 5:53am

...

Hand-carved in Hastings

Hastings' serial killers are known for their traditional attitudes towards dismemberment, preferring old-fashioned knives and cleavers over modern power tools.

Newsworthy in Newton Valance

Your arrival in the insular community of Newton Valance makes the front page of the Parish newsletter, bumping a lesser story about a missing milk churn to page two.

Vesitgial in Virginstow

Your amply proportioned male member means nothing to the chaste inhabitants of this Devonshire Parish.

Beatified in Buttercrambe

Your posthumous daytrip to this small North Yorkshire village proves to be a positive step on your road to Sainthood.

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backwards7 | 26 April 2008 - 4:07pm

Coruscated in Colchester

Don't panic; nobody there knows what it means either.

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Archie Valparaiso | 29 April 2008 - 9:16am

Shanghaied in Shanghai

as recorded by Nazareth

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James Blast | 26 April 2008 - 6:51pm

Saucy

in Worcestershire

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Steve Turner | 26 April 2008 - 8:12pm

Icky..

in Billericay

Ill in Rhyl?

Blind in Glynde?

etc etc

oh bollocks - just noticed billericay's been used um...

what about

diarrhea in tyne and wear?

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Carwash Casteneda | 28 April 2008 - 9:49pm

how about a slight variation to the theme...?

glum in brum

grisly in wisley

or my personal favourite - the rather understated

sad in chad

oooh what about

blue in crewe

ah make it stop...

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Carwash Casteneda | 28 April 2008 - 10:03pm

Cystisis in...

... Sydney

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Reno Dakota | 30 April 2008 - 7:23pm

stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again

Someone's already done that one, you say? Bastard!

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GeoffWashington | 1 May 2008 - 2:14pm
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