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Message: A little town in Austria is thinking of changing it's F*cking name
A little town in Austria is thinking of changing it's F*cking name
18/04/2012 10:20 am
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Do we all know of the little town in Austria called 'Fucking'? Well the villagers are finally sick of all the fun that gets poked at them so they're thinking of changing the town's name. The buzzkills.

We’ve all looked for humours place names on Google Maps before, but no search is quite as funny as Fucking, located in Austria close to the German border. For hundreds of years the small village of only 100 or so residents lived a happy peaceful life, blissfully unaware of what their town’s name meant to the rest of the world.

That was until World War Two when American soldiers rolled into town and stumbled across a geographical source of humour that has stood the test of time… until now.

“People are now willing to discuss changes to the spelling of the name,” Franz Meindl, the village’s mayor, said in a television interview. “But first all Fuckingers have to agree on whether they want to change it or not.” Fuckingers? Nice.

If the vote goes ahead and they decide to change the name, it will more than likely just see the ‘ck’ being changed for the 16th-Century spelling of ‘gg’. So Fucking will become Fugging, which in our opinion is still fairly fugging funny.

According to the Irish Independent, at least 13 road signs bearing the village’s name have been stolen over the years, and the sight of semi-naked women posing for photographs beside signs has become a common sight.

Surely there’s room for a quick stop off on the way to the Euro’s?

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