• Bastard, Norway

I've removed this entry since I've never heard of it, and besides the name means exactly the same thing in Norwegian as in English so it does not seem very likely that it exists, either. -- Egil 22:07 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)

acording too: [1] it exists. -fonzy

Excuse me, but this is the worst reference I've seen for a while. From geocities, with no mention of in which county or municipality. And no attribution. There is certainly no municipality, town or village with that name. And no river nor lake. And no farm. I'm pretty sure it is someone who thought they saw it. Sweden has a Båstad, for instance. Egil 22:39 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)

I deleted the similarly dubious "Cunt, Spain" pending a decent source. (possibly what the above website lists as "Cuntis, Galacia"?) -- Infrogmation 22:44 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)

Why is Honolulu interesting or unusual?

Does anyone know a better translation for German "Sommerloch"? It's a word describing a period of time during summer when most people are on holiday and nothing interesting is happening because of that. -- Timwi 01:16 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Some translate it as the "summer pause" or the "summer hole". --Menchi 08:56 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)

This name is a serious encyclopedic attempt in listing linguistically unusual and unique placename, like all other lists, right? Then why is there a fake one here?

Bob, a made-up name for Northwest Territories, is a joke, nothing more. It is not a placename in any sense. The poll is limited, and very light-natured. It is not even a nickname, like Italy is called The Boot.

It is not a part of Canada, that's probably what the original contributor realized, and so s/he didn't place a specifer country behind the name. So, there you go, a "placename" that belongs to noplace. Nowhere.

--Menchi 09:07 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)

If there is an ambiguity, maybe a more serious footnote could make this clear? User:Docu

I've read up on it and from what I see, I think Menchi is right and Bob doesn't really belong on this page. -- Timwi 21:42 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)

but, even if it's not a place named in an interesting or unusal way, it may be a place name that is interesting or unsual. Thus before we remove it, we should find a better place for it. Toponymy suggests a place for this. User:Docu

Then you are invited to take it there :)
P.S. if you type four tildes (~~~~), it'll insert a nice signature like this one: Timwi 22:00 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Well, there it is. :) User:Docu

Oh, how interesting is "interesting"???? :P Wshun

Indeed. and Why is Honolulu interesting or unusual? says somone, above. Here are my Votes for not being very interesting;

• Goodyear - dull - surely just someone's surname
• Lough Neagh - no more interesting than hundreds of other Irish and Scottish gaelic names?

These are a bit "less interesting " on similar grouds, maybe...

• Rann of Kachchh, India
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
• Tiruchchirappalli, India

Opinions? Andy G 20:18 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Agreed. If it's funny, it has to make sense. Otherwise it's just a 1st-grader who laughs uncontrollably at Mahatma or Gaylord. Other than Goodyear, they -- including Honolulu -- are "odd" to some Americans or English, just because of their lack of contact w/ other ethnicities. Some call such an isolation "ignorance". --Menchi 20:56 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

"If it's funny, it has to make sense"? Ever heard of abstract humour? Regardless of you finding it funny or not, it's humour and it doesn't make sense. I'm the one who has included Rann of Kachchh and Tiruchchirappalli because of the chchh/chch which you don't (often) find in English. FYI, I also included Boom, Belgium, which, as a Belgian, doesn't make me laugh (boom means tree in Dutch). My point is, this page is inherently POV, because humour is POV. D.D. 05:39 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)