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LANGUAGE WARNING...well, sort of.

Wiki entry for the village in question.

1 posted on 06/01/2012 9:44:22 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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2 posted on 06/01/2012 9:46:43 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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Can’t.... breathe....


3 posted on 06/01/2012 9:54:45 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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Well, if the F word has been the name of the place since F knows when it would be F’n wrong to go all PC and force a change.

It's in Austria for F sakes and the only thing since Hitler the world has ever noticed about that Hun backwater was Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I prefer to deal with Leftist PC trying to uproot my traditional semantics—like marriage being defined as a holy and legal union between a man and a woman and not between take your pick of sex or species and take your pick of sex or species!!!

4 posted on 06/01/2012 9:57:10 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("If an Evil be politically correct--none dare call it Evil.")
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Too...bloody...funny!


5 posted on 06/01/2012 9:59:52 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Rename the village “A”, as in, “F***ing A!”. Puts you right at the top of the listings of villages to see while in Austria.


6 posted on 06/01/2012 10:02:18 PM PDT by kevao
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10 posted on 06/01/2012 10:10:37 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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That’s the funniest Wiki article I’ve ever seen.


11 posted on 06/01/2012 10:11:54 PM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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From the Wiki entry:

Rumours spread through international news media in April 2012 that the townspeople were thinking about changing the name of the town, or had actually voted to change it. The satirical website The Spoof! published a story on 18 April saying that the townspeople were fed up and wanted to change the name.[25] This minor satire was expanded upon and appeared on the same day in the Daily Mirror newspaper[26] and elsewhere during the following week as a genuine news item, and was repeated by The Guardian and The Huffington Post, who reported that a vote had taken place to change the name to Fugging, but it was discovered that a village with that name already existed just west of Herzogenburg.[27][28] The irritated mayor of F***ing denied these false stories when contacted.[29]

So, the news story is a lie.

You'd think some enterprising F***inger would set up a souvenir stand to sell F***ing signs and F***ing mugs. I mean, the possibilities are endless.

13 posted on 06/01/2012 10:15:56 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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I wonder if a bunch of N*GGERS live in F***king?


20 posted on 06/01/2012 10:37:51 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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It's a little Platz on the continent where they speak Austrian, er, Deutsch.

The Anglosphere is a great thing, but it can be inconvenient at times, especially when there is Google.

Wiki entry for the village in question.

According to the Wiki, the pronunciation rhymes with look, as does that of the correct pronunciation of the name of birth control whore Sandra Fluke, who tried to shut down Rush but only succeeded in boosting his ratings.

21 posted on 06/01/2012 10:53:46 PM PDT by cynwoody
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What the F***?


24 posted on 06/01/2012 11:47:07 PM PDT by packrat35 (Admit it! We are almost ready to be called a police state!)
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My favorite sentence in the article:

“There is a bus service operated by OÖVV between Schärding and Eggerding which makes stops at Unterf***ing (Lower F***ing) and OberF***ing (Upper F***ing). Bus route 2302 operates once a day from Monday to Friday.

Amazing the name has lasted as long as it has.

They should stop worrying about their signs and have a business selling them.


28 posted on 06/02/2012 12:32:52 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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I have been in Intercourse Pennsylvania.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse,_Pennsylvania


33 posted on 06/02/2012 3:38:44 AM PDT by njslim (St)
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If it’s a proper name, it’s absurd to censor it. Call it by its name. Let the people who make everything a dirty word change.


35 posted on 06/02/2012 4:37:59 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (they have no god but caesar)
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"I spend over $3000 a year in that village..."


36 posted on 06/02/2012 4:50:11 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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I was going to post the google-map link to the town but f***ing is in the address link.

Looks like a pretty area, take wolfing north to f***ing.


37 posted on 06/02/2012 5:42:00 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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It seems to me that the town of F***ing could rake in the bucks by just holding tours.

All you would need is a tour guide who could keep a straight face.

"Ladies and Gentlemen here we are at the F***ing border.

OK everyone off of the F***ing Tour Bus so we can go see the F***ing City Hall. Later we will stop at the F***ING gift shop so you can buy all sorts of F***ing Souvenirs. Also will be touring the F***ing Brewery where they make F***ing Beer. And then we will stop at the F***ing Tavern where they serve the Best F***ing Beer in the world."

People would pay 100 Bucks American to take the tour with their video cams. The waiting time to get tour tickets would be months long and maybe even years.

38 posted on 06/02/2012 6:02:32 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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Why, after reading this thread, do I keep thinking of Randy Quaid?

"Where do I get some dam bait?"

42 posted on 06/02/2012 6:58:15 AM PDT by FLAMING DEATH (Are you better off than you were $4 trillion ago?)
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The 16th-century name for the village was ‘Fugging’ and many want this reinstated.


46 posted on 06/03/2012 10:01:26 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
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51 posted on 06/03/2012 1:40:47 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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