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Whacko in Waco
Posted by Mark Ellen on 24 April 2008 - 3:07pm.
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
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surely
Doubled Over in Dublin
Maybe?
Vomiting in 'Vegas?
Erm...
could you explain that one a little more, Pat?
In the meantime, I'm sure Incensed in Islington was appropriate recently.
?
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".
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)
Matron!
I see now how it could have been "taken the wrong way"
It could well have led to an unpleasant entry like
Sciatica in Sodom
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 )
How about
Sore head in Southend
If you don't mow that lawn tomorrow...
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.
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...
Fraser
I bet Fraser did it for him.
Hyperventilating in Hackensack
Dyspeptic in Daytona
Priapic in Peoria
Panic in Detroit, er, no, hang on . . .
Febrile in Falkirk.
Flatulent in Farnborough
Foolhardy in Falmouth
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
Pardon?
Being a Scot is an ailment?
errmmm
no
OK
Just checking. Wasn't sure myself.
I think
I got carried away and thought it rather clever.
Trumping in Trumpington
Trenchfoot in Trenchtown
Alma mata
Hitching in Hitchin
Malingering in Manhattan
Sounds like every movie Woody Allen's ever made.
Psoriatic in Sausolito
Tenebrous in Tehachape
Busted Flat* in Baton Rouge
Hamstrung in Hampton
* rare condition first observed by Professor Kristofferson.
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)
Buffaloed in Buffalo
Constant in Opal.
Nice one
then Entertained in Houston
stockport
Shagged out in Stockport
the old ones are the best
Acne (near Shoreditch)
One from my neck of the woods
Unstable in Dunstable
Ha Ha!
That's just genius...
Haemorrhoids in Hemel Hempsted
A f#cked knee in Putney
The heebie-jeebies in Fiji
Collywobbles in Colorado
Rickets in Rickmansworth
Comatose in Cleethorpes
:)
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
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.
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.
Well yes I agree
I know what you mean.
Grim...
in Grimsby
MMMMm!
Couched potatoed in Chesterfield
Redundant in Workington
Rhumatic in...
... Ruislip.
Never been myself, mind. (That's rhumatic - nor Ruislip for that matter)
'Shroomed...
in Froom.
...
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.
Coruscated in Colchester
Don't panic; nobody there knows what it means either.
Shanghaied in Shanghai
as recorded by Nazareth
Saucy
in Worcestershire
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?
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...
Cystisis in...
... Sydney
stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again
Someone's already done that one, you say? Bastard!