Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site water.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!water!jbtubman 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 Lines: 15 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