Maybe Austria is more interesting than I give it credit

After my posts on the town of Fucking, Austria, it has come to my attention there is also a Wank. I really prefer fucking, but I'll give wank a mention.

Of course that isn't as interesting as Fucking. The Wikipedia article is a real hoot

"The Germans all want to see Mozart's house in Salzburg, the Americans want to see where The Sound of Music was filmed. The Japanese want Hitler's birthplace in Braunau. But for the British, it's all about Fucking."

The local residents are called "Fuckingers". I guess that beats the other choices.

"What they are, I am not at liberty to disclose, but we will not stand for the Fucking signs being removed. It may be very amusing for you British, but Fucking is simply Fucking to us. What is this big Fucking joke? It is puerile."

Yeah, well I've been called that more than once. I'm puerile and proud of it!

On the other hand, this person doesn't realise how funny that sounds: "What is this big Fucking joke?"

The fact that you don't see it is the "big Fucking joke". Besides, it gives me a reason to say "Fucking".

A local resident of the village, Josef Winkler, attempted to cash in on the village's fame by setting up a website, on which he sold t-shirts featuring the village road signs, with the slogan "I like Fucking in Austria" printed on them.

It also seems that people take pictures of themselves bonking under the Fucking sign, which was another reason for the video cameras. Now, that's a counterproductive method for dealing with exhibitionists.

Yeah, I think the residents of Fucking should be cashing in on its name, although Mayor Franz Meindl said "We don't find it funny. We just want to be left alone. We don't harm anyone and just want to live in peace."

Uh, yeah....

More Fucking around

Given my love of funny roadsigns as well interesting place and street names...

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...