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- From: pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: Strange Place Names (English)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.233629.61131@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 23:36:29 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- In article <C19uy9.AtL@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v140pxgt@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case) writes:
- >In article <45092@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, jmcd@cea.berkeley.edu (John McDonald) writes...
- >>
- >>Well, i was perusing the latest Europe map sent out
- >>by National Geographic. There's a town about 60km
- >>south of Minsk in Belarus called.....Slutsk!
- >
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- I must disappoint you fellow netters. That town is not swarming with the
- kind of females the name suggests. BTW, in Russian (or Byelorussian) it
- is also a funny-sounding name, to some extent, as one of the meanings of
- "slutchatsya" is "to copulate". However, the other meaning is "to occur".
- ^^^^
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- Thus spake Kalmoth the Dreaded, Bane of the Forests of Gnoy.
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