Talk:Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador

really?
"A dildo is also an object often shaped like an erect penis used for sexual stimulation" really? i am stunned. While i am sure this is a necessary line in its way, surely it can be incorporated better than this. WookMuff 11:24, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

What's stopping you? 69.213.242.13 09:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Clearly it's whatever stopped you too. --jazzle 19:09, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * No, I think it's fine the way it is. 69.221.222.110 01:26, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I'd Like to suggest that this page be protected from edits by unregistered users as it's quite an obvious target for vandalism. VolvoMan (talk) 09:00, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

How so?75.174.5.107 (talk) 00:46, 23 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Why not mention that a dildo is a peg on a ship's oar (hence the name of the town), *without* mentioning the sex toy (which also got its name from the oar part). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.19.192 (talk) 17:09, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * That seems like the obvious thing to do. Everyone's first question when they read this page is going to be why the town has this name.  208.226.153.25 (talk) 13:43, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

uhh huhuhu you said dildo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.56.154.226 (talk) 13:48, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Reference to Anderson's Cove in the preceeding article:
On older charts of the area the cove is listed as Annette's Cove. —Preceding unsigned comment added by WiccanWarrior (talk • contribs) 23:24, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Origin of the name
I've been trying to research the origin of the name of the town. It seems the town was named after the Island of the same name, so really the source of the naming of Dildo Island is in order. I've been looking at historical atlases and have not yet been able to come to the date of the original naming of Dildo Island (the maps I have all list it as Dildo Island, so I know it was named sometime before 1920). It could be named after the Dildo-tree, but that seems to be a warm weather cactus native to Spanish-America so it is unlikely to be the origin of the name. The OED says that Dildo was a word "used in the refrains of ballads," so maybe the first European settlers named the Island after that word. It could also be a transliteration of some Dorset or other First Nations word. I highly doubt it has anything to do with what Dildos mean in todays' parlance, but it could be related to the phallic or maybe a phallic shaped thing. This meaning was in use starting in the late sixteenth/early seventeenth centuries. Does anyone have any information on this? Perhaps a local would know the story of the town's name? Peter Napkin Dance Party (talk) 16:29, 21 October 2009 (UTC)


 * *sigh* Okay, when the weather turns warmer, I'm going to drive out and stop on the shore road in Broad Cove and look north across the bay at Dildo Arm and take a picture for you.  It's a basalt 'sugarloaf' that's only maybe a hundred feet above sea level with a lower spit of land extending out to connect it to the 'mainland'.  I swear by all that's holy and profane, the resulting geographic structure resembles a phallus, corona and all.  My parents have a summer cottage on the 'fashionable' edge of the town.  "Dildo" may have had other references - oar-pins and the like - but the geographic appearance is something that has to be seen; I'm a little annoyed that my repeated searches of the Internet result in nothing. ADDENDUM: I've found one photo taken from a kayak in the bay of just Dildo Head itself, taken just a couple of weeks ago; it's dim, and hazy (it was snowing at the time), and doesn't really show much beyond the 'squashed sugarloaf' itself.  Guess we'll have to wait until April or so. :( Empath (talk) 21:01, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

south dildo
just to suggest that as a community large enough and not an actual part or something of dildo,perhaps south dildo should have its own article.i may myself take care of it not too later.thanks,Keserman (talk) 18:30, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

list of towns of notoriety
"The town's unusual name has brought it a certain amount of notoriety in the same vein as Fucking, Austria; Anus, France; Nob End, England; Effin, Ireland; Twatt, Scotland; Bald Knob, Arkansas; and Wankum, Germany."

This list should also mention Intercourse, PA. Of course, the list can't be limitless, but this is one of the most "notorious" town names in the US. Here's a longer list of "rude place names", just for reference: http://www.i-r-genius.com/rudeplaces.html

24.23.134.241 (talk) 17:08, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Isn’t it instead absurd to list a bunch of other towns already in the fourth sentence of the article? Shouldn’t this text focus on this article? /Hangsna (talk) 21:03, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

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as an insult
'as an insult for a "contemptuous or reviling" male' Should this read 'as an insult for a "contemptible or reviled" male'? In other words, would it sound like "calm down, don't be such a dildo" or "what a loser, he's such a dildo"? We've lost the OED link. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 02:08, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

"town"
I know the word 'town' has a common use. Dildo is not listed on the official Newfoundland and Labrador government "municipality and Inuit government directory". See https://www.mae.gov.nl.ca/municipal_directory/ It might be helpful to find out what status if any Dildo has and explain this before using words like "community" and "town" in more general senses.--134.153.14.79 (talk) 16:57, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 January 2020
Residents of Dildo commonly refer to themselves as Dildonians, as noted on popular local singer/songwriter Dean Reid's album release "A Proud Dildonian", as well as t-shirts produced by a resident of the town for locals (Born & Bred Dildonian) and visitors (Wannabe Dildonian). Additional information may be found at www.dildonian.com or at facebook.com/@realdildonian. Dildarrell (talk) 15:53, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Could you point to a reliable secondary source for that? Not really clear whether it is in a joking manner or not. – Thjarkur (talk) 16:05, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Get your head out of the gutter, the name isn't dirty
I takes all of 30 seconds on Google to find several possible sources for the name of the town and not one of them has anything whatsoever to do with the sex toy. (Try any of the history sites, or maybe the Canadian news sites which actually do their research before writing articles.) They are all boat/sailing related terms from French and Spanish which over time were mispronounced and anglicised over time and became something else, the same way the English language was created. The dildo (sex toy) appears to have been named after the term used for a peg used to hold docking ropes, which is a similar shape. Also, the town is believed to have been named after the island of the same name, so the name has nothing to do with any fallic shaped landmarks people believe they can see nearby. The island is called Ile D'eau (pronounced "ill dough") the French for "of" is "de", so the town named for it would be "the town of Ile D'eau", pronounced "la vill d ill dough", it's a fairly simple and direct link. 2A02:C7C:C602:2100:57C:4DEC:D535:3059 (talk) 12:41, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 March 2024
I wish to provide images in the gallery from a recent visit to Dildo in 2023. CyberDetroit (talk) 23:07, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Please make your request for a new image to be uploaded to Files For Upload. Once the file has been properly uploaded, feel free to reactivate this request to have the new image used. Tollens (talk) 08:26, 21 March 2024 (UTC)