Zeus_Hunt Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 Fucking (IPA: /ˈfʊkɪŋ/; rhymes with "looking") is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. It is located 32 km north of Salzburg and 4 km east of the border with Germany. 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."Fucking's most famous feature is a traffic sign with its name on it, beside which English-speaking tourists often stop to have their photograph taken. It is a commonly stolen street sign. Significant amounts of public funds are spent on replacing the stolen signs. In August 2005 the road signs were replaced with theft-resistant signs welded to steel and secured in concrete to make the signs harder to take.In 2004, due to the stolen signs and embarrassment over the name, a vote was held on changing the village's name, but the residents voted against doing so.A similar phenomenon can be attributed to Bavarian places such as Kissing and Petting, although less outside attention is paid due to less obscene names. Other Germanophone village names with an English-language connotation are Hacking and Rottenegg in Upper Austria; Attaching near Munich; Mailing near Ingolstadt; districts in Austria named Kicking; and the Berlin neighborhood Wedding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolt_Gundam510 Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 heh heh now that's funny to have a name called fucking on a sign like that. that's nothing, this street in New York and it's in New York the name of the street is called Moan and the other is called Cumming. try and tell your friends to pick you up on moan and cumming heh heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted July 15, 2007 Author Share Posted July 15, 2007 For once I can use the "F" word without any of these ~*$#@&^* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 i always see that coming up on trillian when you right click it comes up with a definiton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tker Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 hahah thats awesome i wanna live in !@#$%^& austria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybersky Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 roseanne in a talkshow ... about fu... in austria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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