Is it obscene ?

[Externet]

Well, if it is, please delete.  Or move to the humor section.  Or change the name of the town... or block the icebergs from wandering that place...🥵

---> https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/giant-phallus-shaped-iceberg-floating-in-conception-bay-surprises-residents-of-dildo-canada

[geordief]

Is that the North Pole?

 

 

[Peterkin]

Of course it's not obscene. It's an accident of nature, and one species - only one - finds it risible.

(Would it be obscene if it had been deliberately sculpted by a human who knew why it's funny? No, but it wouldn't be a terrific work of art, either.)

[John Cuthber]

What's funny is having a town named Dildo in Canada,

[npts2020]

1 hour ago, John Cuthber said:

What's funny is having a town named Dildo in Canada,

Ya, but it's probably better than calling your town "Artificial Stimulation".

[Genady]

2 hours ago, John Cuthber said:

What's funny is having a town named Dildo in Canada,

There are places with such names in PA, e.g.,

[TheVat]

6 hours ago, John Cuthber said:

What's funny is having a town named Dildo in Canada,

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(just clicked the link, and I see the caption writer made the same joke, so I deleted)

Some of the town store names could be potentially amusing.

Dildo Appliance

Dildo Electric

Dildo Construction

 

Let me restate here:  every store with the town in its name is going to be amusing.

Edited May 13, 2023 by TheVat

[Peterkin]

7 hours ago, John Cuthber said:

What's funny is having a town named Dildo in Canada,

 

I suspect the town's nautical name predates the other usage. 

What's even funnier is foreign surnames that sound like body parts and functions.

https://www.momjunction.com/articles/funny-last-names-surnames-in-the-world_00773821/

Edited May 13, 2023 by Peterkin

[TheVat]

93, on that list...seemed understandable why it's rare.

In the county of Berkshire, in England, there is a place called Soggy Bottom.  (it was also a fictitious locale in Louisiana, in the movie O Brother Where Art Thou?)

https://mapcarta.com/N1246380035

[StringJunky]

1 hour ago, TheVat said:

93, on that list...seemed understandable why it's rare.

In the county of Berkshire, in England, there is a place called Soggy Bottom.  (it was also a fictitious locale in Louisiana, in the movie O Brother Where Art Thou?)

https://mapcarta.com/N1246380035

Soggy Bottom was probably a bog/marsh area. In the US there's Froggy Bottom and that was named for its land type. I find it interesting that street names denote what the area was and maybe the only clue. Being 61, I've seen places disappear under street/ road signs and commerce and that's all that's left.

[Peterkin]

Quote

 

Subdivision names are important for a whole host of reasons.

Some of our favorite subdivision names include:

• Alexander Woods, Beverley Woods, Brittany Oaks 
• Sycamore Village, Chestnut Lake, Victory Lakes
• Magnolia Estates, The Waters, Crystal Cove Coldwater Canyon, Rolling Hills, Hidden Hills
• and for a retirement community: Heaven View Estates

This is why there are subdivision name generators like SubdivisionNamer, where you can quickly brainstorm name ideas for your community.

Now, that's obscene!

[TheVat]

Indeed.  Especially when they deceive.  A common thing in US subdivisions, like in prairie area where name ends with -wood, and there are no woods.  

[Peterkin]

33 minutes ago, TheVat said:

wood, and there are no woods.  

Or if there were, they were bulldozed to make way for the freckled-brick houses and lawns you're not allowed to fence or grow vegetables in.

Real names have history. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/pov-ainsley-hawthorn-from-dildo-to-witless-bay-nl-unusual-place-names-1.5263826

Subdivisions, industrial 'parks' and shopping malls do not. 

Edited May 14, 2023 by Peterkin