NONE@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoGiant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canadawww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square125linkfedilinkarrow-up11.33Karrow-down116cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareHikingVetlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoThat is an accurate statement. There are some quite tounge in cheek place name in NFLD.
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoRural places get weird, doubly so when they got bored without the internet. Just ask Pennsylvania. Virginville, Two Lick Valley, Rough and Ready and so much more. Maybe it’s also a dutch influence…
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoI think there’s a town in France called Pussy
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoDo we blame Leif Ericson and other Vikings?
minus-squareHikingVetlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoNo, more likely to have been Irish settlers
That is an accurate statement.
There are some quite tounge in cheek place name in NFLD.
Rural places get weird, doubly so when they got bored without the internet.
Just ask Pennsylvania. Virginville, Two Lick Valley, Rough and Ready and so much more.
Maybe it’s also a dutch influence…
I think there’s a town in France called Pussy
and fucking.
Do we blame Leif Ericson and other Vikings?
No, more likely to have been Irish settlers