>I wasn't sure that it would be used in the USA as you have so many towns similarly named to those in Europe that I thought Americans might not catch the allusion. Like "What do they mean, Newcastle? It's village in Vermont!" (not an actual example).
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>For years I thought Jimmy Osmond's "Long haired lover from Liverpool" was about MY home town. :-)

Nope, that's a different one. Something like a car pool, just with livers.