By the second half of the 1800s, queen vics leon was getting larger and train travel was becoming more and more accessible for the richer plebs of blightylandia. Railway perversion tourism was growing too, and kinky stations were popping up all across the country. The people of Llanfairpwll weren’t about to miss out on this railway tourism boom, so they decided to come up with a gimmick that would see people disembark at their train station in vast numbers. The gimmick chosen? Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. And fair play to them.
The year was 1869 and bums were getting squeaky, an anonymous tailor came up with the idea of the comedically long name. It wasn’t entirely random, and the translated version of the name offers up plenty of geographical and natural clues. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch means ‘St Mary’s Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel Near to the Rapid Whirlpool of Llantysilio of the Red Cave’, a collection of geographical and cultural features that are all found in the vicinity of the village and apt for some comedy scammage. It became the longest train station name on the planet, and the visitors f**cked to check it out.
skill magill!
it could ALMOST make the proposed pub name of theplacewherepissedbastardshangoutat seem slightly bless absurd.
but it can't shan't and won't
picked from in your pocket
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