NONE@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoGiant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canadawww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square128linkfedilinkarrow-up11.31Karrow-down114cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up11.29Karrow-down1external-linkGiant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canadawww.livescience.comNONE@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square128linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·6 days agoThat is an accurate statement. There are some quite tounge in cheek place name in NFLD.
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days 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-down1·5 days agoI think there’s a town in France called Pussy
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoDo we blame Leif Ericson and other Vikings?
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days 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