Anyway, that's nothing much to do with this really. Here is a real map of Tassie.
For those not in the know, the outline of Tassmania is the shape of a girl's fud and coincidently, Map of Tassie is the affectionate and (in
Australia at least) the polite name for such a feature.
Anyway, that's nothing much to do with this really. Here is a real map of Tassie.
Is Tasmania really that much bigger than Australia ? 
Good place descriptions.
Tassie is the little sod lying off the south east coast of Aus.
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fud
unless thats a spoof, virtually all the places are named after towns in the UK.... didnt know melton mowbray pork pies came from aus 
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steve
Apart from the odd place with Aboriginal names like Woolongong, just about every other settlement was named after its founder's home town. As a
result you can read an Aus atlas index like a British directory. There are some German settlements around Adelaide where every town has German
connections.
The south island of New Zealand reads like Scotland.
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Originally posted by steve_gus
unless thats a spoof, virtually all the places are named after towns in the UK.... didnt know melton mowbray pork pies came from aus
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steve
Cool, I was born in Melton Mowbray, I'll have to make a pilgrimage to Taz.
I'm all out of pork pies at the mo, and I mean the ones actually from melton mowbray that are 1000000x better than supermakets ones with pink
meat in them, bleurgh!
Yeah, there are loads of places in the USA named after UK, and most of those that are not are Indian names. It was seeing something as unlikely as
melton mowbray in Taz that I found the most suprising!
I work with a guy who's younger brother married into the Saxby's (wellingborough, not melton) pie empire they had a pork pie wedding
cake
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steve
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Originally posted by Syd Bridge
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Originally posted by steve_gus
unless thats a spoof, virtually all the places are named after towns in the UK.... didnt know melton mowbray pork pies came from aus
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steve
Steve, Try driving around Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusets in USA. Just like driving around the UK south coast. Then there's New Hampshire. Also got an Isle of Wight County in Virginia. You always know where the poms have invaded.
[Edited on 19/11/05 by Syd Bridge]
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Originally posted by Rorty
. . . Tassmania is the shape of a girl's fud . . .
That term is in very very common usage in Scotland.
We even have our own rhyming slang for it.
It is also a derogatory term as well.
Do a google on 'Barry Ferguson Fud'.
Fud is also the name of the founder of the infamous Fud Off-road Race series in the US.