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- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: Strange Place Names (English)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.191517.21854@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <45092@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1993Jan22.221333.19930@cunews.carleton.ca> <C1AJ1x.CK9@news.ucs.mun.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:15:17 GMT
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- In article <C1AJ1x.CK9@news.ucs.mun.ca> cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh ) writes:
- >>>Well, i was perusing the latest Europe map sent out
- >>>by National Geographic. There's a town about 60km
- >>>south of Minsk in Belarus called.....Slutsk!
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- >> How about Dildo, Newfoundland.
- >> Colon, Panama.
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- And let us not forget Soab, Canada, named after Lake Soab, which
- was named by the survey crew that was visited by Murphys' Law
- to such an extent that the only comment they had on the area was,
- "This place is a son of a bitch!" (they had problems with their
- float plane, camp, weather, radio, just *everything* went wrong).
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