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Giant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canada
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this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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It can't be.
That is an accurate statement.
There are some quite tounge in cheek place name in NFLD.
Do we blame Leif Ericson and other Vikings?
No, more likely to have been Irish settlers
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.