There's a B. Kliban cartoon of two Chinese blokes in a Chinese landscape. One says to the other "Personally, I'm sick of this whole Fukien Province"
Of course, the place is pronounced foo-jen and pronouncing it as fuckin' only marks you as a complete gweilo (鬼佬). Although my Chinese girlfriend caught the joke when she saw the cartoon.
Needless to say,this is a road sign that tends to be stolen. The local authorities now have them lodged in concrete and under video surveillance.
Just imagine the caption for this news story!
Oh, YEAH, baby!
I don't know if it's funnier that there are other towns near Fucking called Unterfucking and Oberfucking.
It is believed that the settlement was founded around the 6th century by Focko, a Bavarian nobleman. The existence of the village was documented for the first time in 1070 and historical records show that some twenty years later the lord was Adalpertus de Fucingin. The spelling of the name has evolved over the years; it is first recorded in historical sources with the spelling as Vucchingen in 1070, Fukching in 1303, Fugkhing in 1532, and in the modern spelling Fucking in the 18th century, which is pronounced with a guttural "oo" sound. "-ing" is an old Germanic suffix indicating the people of the root word to which it is attached; thus Fucking means "(place of) Focko’s people."
Well, you could live here...
