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- From: "Jon \\lnes" <jon@ifi.uio.no>
- Subject: Re: Strange Place Names (English)
- In-Reply-To: fenton@scs.carleton.ca (Trevor Fenton)'s message of Fri, 22 Jan
- 1993 22:13:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.2.728052892.jon@gode.ifi.uio.no>
- Sender: jon@ifi.uio.no (Jon \lnes)
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- References: <45092@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
- <1993Jan22.221333.19930@cunews.carleton.ca>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:54:52 GMT
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- Originator: jon@gode.ifi.uio.no
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- In article <1993Jan22.221333.19930@cunews.carleton.ca> fenton@scs.carleton.ca (Trevor Fenton) writes:
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- > 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!
- > >
- > >Or am i the only one that finds that funny...?
- > >
- > >Others?
- >
- > How about Dildo, Newfoundland.
- > Colon, Panama.
- >
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- Hell, Norway (just outside Trondheim). English tourists use to buy train
- tickets to Hell, _and back_.
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- JON
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