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- From: johnson@sleipnir.pb.wes.mot.com (Mark Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Strange Place Names (English)
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- Organization: Motorola Wireless Enterprises, Schaumburg, IL
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:35:40 GMT
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- In article <C1AJ1x.CK9@news.ucs.mun.ca>, cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh ) writes:
- =)>>south of Minsk in Belarus called.....Slutsk!
- =)> How about Dildo, Newfoundland.
- =)> Colon, Panama.
- =)Actually, just go to a library and start looking up some of the place
- =)names in Newfoundland. Dildo is perhaps the most infamous one, but there
- =)are plenty of other ones. How about Upper Gullies for a start?
- =)
- My personal favorite, in the north of Newfoundland, is Joe Batt's Arm. I
- always wondered about Newfoundland, though--it seems that it's much better
- to be on an east-facing coast (Heart's Content, Heart's Delight, Paradise,
- etc.) than on a west-facing coast (Purgatory, Hades, Misery, etc.) Any
- reason for this correlation? Some of these towns are within a few miles
- of each other. :-)/2
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