If you're a local, it's Wagga

Did you think it the least bit funny? Maybe I have a weird sense of humour.

@JudyEv I was trying to figger out a way to get fourth Wagga in there.

@TheHorse We also have a town called Woy Woy but I've never heard it referred to simply as 'Woy'.

That's very clever too. Thanks for sharing that with me.

@JudyEv You are welcome.

@JudyEv I still could not laugh

I just thought it was funny that they could put Wagga together three times. I've put extra commas in, in case it helps. He said ‘You can’t call Wagga Wagga, Wagga’ to which she replied ‘If you come from Wagga, you can call Wagga Wagga, Wagga’.

@allknowing No problems.

I thought so. I had to laugh.

@JudyEv

There is indeed. lol

We have some strange place names here.

@Mshafeeq I guess every country has strange names. England certainly has its fair share of them.

@JudyEv Yeah, in India also we have some weird names

I'm pretty careful about when I use WA for West Australia as some who don't know me well think it means Washington. Australian are very keen about shortening some names.

@JudyEv There is ono sci fi book where the first flying saucer landed in Grinnell Iowa, where I went to college.

@TheHorse @AmbiePam I know it shouldn't surprise me but when I went to an op shop in Ireland a great many of the books had Irish settings! When I was much younger, it was almost unusual to find a book set in Australia. Most had English or American settings.

We also have a town called Woy Woy but I've never heard of that being shortened. I always get quite excited if a book I'm reading includes a town I'm familiar with.

Thanks for the extra information. I didn't know about the place of many crows.

@JudyEv I got it now, thanks Judy.

@LadyDuck @DaddyEvil @LindaOHio @Beestring It's very hard to explain what's funny but I'll try. Maybe you have to be an Australian to get it. The man thinks that, as the town's proper name is Wagga Wagga, people shouldn't just call it Wagga. The lady believes that, if you come from the town, it's okay to call it Wagga. Here it is again with extra commas: He said ‘You can’t call Wagga Wagga, Wagga’ to which she replied ‘If you come from Wagga, you CAN call Wagga Wagga, Wagga’. But it's not important. I'm sure I wouldn't get some jokes from other countries either.

I thought it was funny.

We're so far from most other countries that many things seem strange to others.

Goodness! That would be very confusing!

I think it is of aboriginal origin.

I'm glad you liked the Wagga repartee. Australia has such a wide variety of landscapes. It can be very hard to generalise sometimes.

Fair enough. Some jokes are hard to explain.

That's good. I'm glad.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Yes, a lot of the more unusual names are aboriginal in origin. We have a lot of towns named about British towns too. We used to live in Donnybrook and I think there are two more Donnybrooks in the eastern states.