F*cking Villagers Vote Against Name Change (Actual Headline)

ananova.com ^ | 6/8/04 | Staff

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Residents of an Austrian village called F*cking, have voted against changing the name.

The 150 or so people who live in the village debated the issue after roadsigns kept being stolen - many by British tourists.

Spokesman Siegfried Hoeppl, said: "Everyone here knows what it means in English, but for us F*cking is F*cking - and it's going to stay F*cking - even though the signs keep getting stolen."

He said the name came from Mr F*ck and his family who settled in the area 100 years ago, and added "ing", meaning village or settlement.

The villagers didn't find out about the English meaning of the word until Allied soldiers stationed in the region in 1945 pointed out the alternative meaning.

Local newspaper editor Menhardt Buzasa said there had been an increase in the number of signs being stolen, and said British tourists were usually blamed.

"I do not agree it is just the British. F*cking is universal. Germans use it as much now as the British, and it also means the same to the Americans, Australians and anyone in the English speaking world," he said.

Similar votes on a name change have taken place recently in neighbouring Austrian towns Wank am see and Petting, as well as in Vomitville and Windpassing.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

[Rebelbase]

Looks like Climax and Horneytown, NC have had their innuendo eclipsed.

[rabidralph]

I wonder if Kerry has a resort home there.

[garbanzo]

Similar votes on a name change have taken place recently in neighbouring Austrian towns Wank am see and Petting, as well as in Vomitville and Windpassing.

I need more confirmation of the story...I'm not buying it.

[I still care]

Don't forget the so much more sedate Intercourse, PA.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Perhaps they should adopt Intercourse, PA as a "Sister City".

[tdadams]

It's even funnier in this picture, with the accompanying sign that says "Please, not so fast". Apologies that I don't have a cleaned up version.

[tdadams]

I will vouch for it first hand. But if you need more than that, look here for background information and GPS coordinates.

[Ichneumon]

I need more confirmation of the story...I'm not buying it.

I can't vouch for the others, but F***ing, Austria really does exist. So does Condom, France, and P***y, France, among many other places with unintentional bilingually funny/risque names.

There's a Chinga river in Russia which is undoubtedly pretty funny to Spanish speakers.

[tdadams]

That's nothing. How'd you like to live in Dildo?

[Quix]

Perhaps they need to make the signs as big as billboards. Those would be hard to pack in a suitcase.

Just so they don't go to pictograms!

[San Jacinto]

How does someone come to be named "Mr. F***" ?

Did he have to use those asterisks every f******* time he signed his name?

[Izzy Dunne]

They have a soccer team called the "F***ing Dweebs"

[Fiddlstix]

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[mountaineer]

Maybe his name really was F(asterisk) - his friends called him F'isk for short.

[xsmommy]

hilarious

[11th Earl of Mar]

Interesting...

The mods found my posting of this story too offensive. But yours was not.

It says something regarding my relationship with the beloved mods.

[Arrowhead1952]

You can just find the wildest things on the web!!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

No, no; I think it was just that they didn't want two copies of the same story -- from the same source -- on the board at the same time, is all. Honest.

It happens to me occasionally, too. :)