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From: jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG])
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: bizarre place names
Message-ID: <789@water.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 12:56:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: water.789
Posted: Wed Aug 21 12:56:55 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 03:50:46 EDT
References: <128@drutx.UUCP> <1225@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG])
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <1225@ubc-cs.UUCP> ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP (Peter Ludemann) writes:
>How about:
>
>Dildo, Newfoundland (named in the late 1700s, apparently referring
>		     to a long spit of land nearby).

And how far is Dildo from Come-By-Chance?

John Crosbie (Canada's Justice Minister) once gave a speech in Parliament
mentioning many of Newfoundland's settlements with sexually suggestive
names.  I wish I could remember more of them.  (The speech sent the whole
House of Commons into gales of laughter.)

						Jim Tubman
						University of Waterloo