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DanaC 04-21-2012 02:55 AM
Fucking Austria
 
Or rather: Fucking, Austria.

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Austrians considering renaming their village from Fucking to Fugging have been told to think again – because the name is already taken.

Villagers at Fucking in Upper Austria voted yesterday to change the name to Fugging. But then came the news that there used to be a second village with the name Fucking in Austria – and residents there had already bagged the name Fugging more than 100 years ago.

Fugging mayor Andreas Dockner - 200 miles away in Lower Austria - said: "Nobody alive now remembers why it was changed from Fucking to Fugging, but it was and that is now our name. We think one Fugging in Austria is enough.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...renamed-798433


The writer of this article must have been giggling throughout. :

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Fucking mayor Franz Meindl said that apart from the name their tiny village with just over 100 residents would be a rural paradise. ...

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Fucking residents said the final straw was a growing number of calls by pranksters from abroad who ring up locals and ask in English "Is That Fucking" - before bursting into laughter and hanging up.
The phone calls are really the final straw", said Fucking Mayor Meindl, who confirmed that the villages street signs were regularly stolen - even though they had been welded on steel posts set in concrete in the ground.

Drivers heading into the village often disturbed naked couples romping in front of the signs, and local entrepreneurs made the situation worse by flogging off Fucking postcards - Fucking Christmas cards and even more recently a Fucking beer
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If the name change does go ahead there will still be plenty to amuse the pranksters when Fucking vanishes.

Also available on the online Austrian telephone book are the villages of "Oberfucking" "Windpassing", "Wankham" and "Rottenegg".

Not to be outdone on the old rude names front:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-n...-the-uk-799573

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It may be the Austrian village of Fucking that is the source of cheeky giggles at the moment - thanks to residents’ unsuccessful plans to change their little hometown’s name to Fugging – but rude place names aren’t limited to continental Europe.

We have more than out fair share of obscene locations in the UK too,
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Beaver Close, Surrey

Bell End, Worcestershire

Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire

Felch Square, Powys

Fine Bush Lane, Ruislip

Butt Hole Road, South Yorkshire

Minge Lane, Worcestershire

Dick Court, Lanarkshire

Slag Lane, Merseyside

Hole of Horcum, North York Moor

Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire

Spanker Lane, Nether Heage

Funbag Drive, Watford

Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire

Shitterton, Dorset

Lickfold, West Sussex

Ladygate Lane, Ruislip

Twatt - there's two! One in Shetland and another in Orkney

Cocks, Cornwall

Cockermouth, Cumbria

Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire

Friars' Entry, Oxfordshire

Fingringhoe, Essex

Crotch Crescent, Oxfordshire

Cumming Court, Gloucestershire
I've highlighted the ones that most amuse me. Ymmv :p

monster 04-21-2012 07:22 AM
Some Americans are also amused by Penistone, South Yorkshire, iirc, but are not remotely bothered by living on Felch St, Ann Arbor, MI.

TheMercenary 04-21-2012 08:34 AM
Those are great.

DanaC 04-21-2012 08:41 AM
What's the betting the prank callers are Brits? :P

monster 04-21-2012 12:33 PM
I wonder if, years ago, the townsfolk pissed off a Brit, and she thought: you know what, forsooth, I'mm'a make fucking a synonym for a very badde thing. I shall write a letter to 10 of my homies detailing that fucking is now a euphemism for "doing it" an implore them to copy it to ten of their friends and soon it will spread like the plague.

?

wolf 04-21-2012 12:44 PM
I wonder if they had any idea before the British and American tourists started showing up? That is not the German word for the activity.

SteveDallas 04-21-2012 01:39 PM
I'm disappointed the list of naughty names didn't refer to the Scunthorpe Problem.

DanaC 04-21-2012 04:52 PM
Great article.

My favourite bit is this:

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In June 2008, a news site run by the American Family Association censored an Associated Press article on sprinter Tyson Gay, replacing instances of "gay" with homosexual, thus rendering his name as "Tyson Homosexual".[

GunMaster357 04-21-2012 05:36 PM
A very nice locality in Burgundy (France) is the ass hole of our country : Anus

BigV 04-22-2012 12:00 AM
um... if it's burgundy you might want to see a doctor, and quick.

ZenGum 04-26-2012 03:18 AM
We all have our cross to bear:


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In what seems a perfect match, a Scottish village named Dull is seeking to twin with the US town of Boring.

"It might seem like a joke but this could have real benefits. Everyone has been smiling at the prospect of the eye-catching road sign this will require," Dull community councillor Marjorie Keddie said.

wolf 04-26-2012 11:20 AM
The American town name probably has it's roots in mining. The Scottish one, OTOH, is probably really apt.

dmg1969 04-26-2012 11:44 AM
Imagine the arguments that started.

Wife calls husband's cell phone..

Wife: Hi Honey...where are you?

Husband: I'm at the Fucking supermarket and after that I have to go to the Fucking bank.

Wife: I was JUST asking...<click>

Sundae 04-27-2012 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by wolf (Post 808710)
The American town name probably has it's roots in mining. The Scottish one, OTOH, is probably really apt.
Just to be really Boring... It's a family name. There are apparently still a few members of the original Boring family around.

No I didn't look it up, it was on 5 Live earlier this week.
I've been listening to a lot of talk radio...


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