Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!ubc-ean!ubc-cs!ludemann From: ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP (Peter Ludemann) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: bizarre place names Message-ID: <1225@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 19:56:38 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.1225 Posted: Mon Aug 19 19:56:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 00:34:58 EDT References: <128@drutx.UUCP> Reply-To: ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP (Peter Ludemann) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 13 How about: Dildo, Newfoundland (named in the late 1700s, apparently referring to a long spit of land nearby). Horsefly, British Columbia (the name says it all). Spuzzum, British Columbia (on Highway 1, just a little beyond Hope). -- ludemann%ubc-vision@ubc-cs.uucp (ubc-cs!ludemann@ubc-vision.uucp) ludemann@cs.ubc.cdn ludemann@ubc-cs.csnet Peter_Ludemann@UBC.mailnet