A town in Austria named F*cking.

[Prrkitty]

Who'da thunk?! I don't condone "thugery" ... but having one of their town signs would be pretty cool <lol>.

http://www.larrykenney.com/austria.html

[Petoe]

Hehe... British tourists have an obsession with F*cking... :)

I imagine it would be funny to be visiting that town and getting a call froma buddy
BUDDY - Where are ya?
ME - F*cking.
BUDDY - F*cking who?
ME - No, I'm in a place called F*cking.
BUDDY - ...yes? Fucking what?
ME - Fu... ah, nevermind.

[Seraphim Sniper]

I had to tell an English lady . . . there were no Fucking postcards.

*Hilarity*

[Prrkitty]

Imagine having to write that for your address every time you mailed something...

123 Somewhere Street #567
Fucking, Austria 99999

I'd crack up every time I mailed something.

[Tygore]

123 Somewhere Street #567
Fucking, Austria 99999

It's even funnier if you forget the comma.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking%2C_Austria) claims that it's pronounced like "cooking". Even so, it's still hilarious that they have so much trouble with the stolen street sign.

[mrz84]

:lmao: :lol: I read the entire article and I gotta say that I almost died laughing. Freaking hilarious. :kitty:

[Rainman]

I wonder if you would get in trouble for saying the name on television. I can imagine a funny comedy bit could come out of this.

[cbailey78]

WOW! I would not believe that they would name towns bad words!

[{DSG}DarkRaven]

When I was in high school, I was a student ambassador to western europe twice. We were going to austria as part of the first trip, and we had a riot when we found out about the existence of this city. We never got to go there, but the jokes abounded for days.

[ZTC]

lmfao

There's my laugh for the day. Interesting find

[The_Amaster]

Bizzare...you have to assume that the town was founded, like, 300 years ago, when the word wasn't even around, or somthing.

[redmage777]

Try close to 1000 years...


Fucking (IPA: /ˈfʊkɪŋ/ — it rhymes with the English word "cooking") is a small settlement (population c. 93), part of the municipality of Tarsdorf,[2] in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria, located at 48°04′02″N, 12°51′49″E, bordering Bavaria. [3] It is near the city of Salzburg, and also the town of "Tittmoning". The village is known to have existed as “Fucking” since at least 1070 and is named after a man from the 6th century called Focko. “Ing” is an old Germanic suffix meaning “people”; thus Fucking, in this case, means “place of Focko’s people”.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria

[Dogchew9]

Haha, I like that part where it says they have an obsession with Fucking