Two posts in one week…your asses better hold on!
September 28, 2005I saw this on netscape a few days ago and it made me giggle like a drunken schoolgirl.
Anyone who truly knows me knows about my unadulterated love of the word “fuck”…or any expletive in general. I can’t get enough off them.
Just remember kids, everything’s funnier with fuck.
One Town’s Very Obscene NameSee now, that’s just funny.
When you think of Austria, no doubt you think of such cities and towns as Vienna, Innsbruck and Salzburg. But there is another one. And because of its name, tourists steal the signs.The name? We can’t print it here. (But I can motherfuckers…) It’s Fucking.
Agence France Presse and Britain’s Sunday Telegraph report that the residents of Fucking (pronounced Fooking) are quite perturbed with British tourists who think the name of the town is so hilarious they want to take a piece of it home with them. So they swipe the signs. There are only 32 homes in this charming Austrian village with breathtaking views of lakes and forests and none of its residents understand why their signs are so popular. In fact, sign stealing is the only crime in Fucking.
The good people of Fucking have wised up. They have embedded their signs in concrete. Try stealing one now! We quote. Directly. Exactly. This is what police chief Kommandant Schmidtberger told the Sunday Telegraph: “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.”
Interestingly, it is only the British who seem to have such a fascination with the name of this little town. A local guide told the Telegraph that the Germans want to see the Mozart house in Salzburg, while the Americans only care about the area around which “The Sound of Music” was filmed. The Japanese just want to see Hitler’s birthplace in Braunau. The British are different. A woman who runs a guest house told the paper, “Just this morning I had to tell an English lady who stopped by that there were no Fucking postcards.”
These Austrians may be on to something about the Brits. The BBC News reports that a Northamptonshire secondary school in Great Britain has had such a problem with its students swearing that they have instituted a five-word swearing limit in each class. When a student swears, the teacher writes a mark on the board. After five marks, no one is allowed to swear for the duration of the class. If the rule is broken? They get a severe talking-to by the teacher. We’re thinking there won’t be any field trips to Fucking, Austria.
I had a lady I used to work with named Jodi was swore to me there was a Chinese restaurant in Florida called the “The Foo-King Diner”. I sat and came up with funny shit with that name for nearly an hour…
“Do you guys sell Foo-King t-shirts?”
“That’s the best Foo-King meal I’ve ever had!”
“Hey! Our waiter got our Foo-King order wrong…what kind of Foo-King place are they running here?”
“No way…it’s your turn to get the Foo-King check…you cheap bastard.”
Good times, good times.
So in summation I think I can sleep a little easier at night knowing there’s a place called Fucking.
The Fucking citizens have quite a little Xanadu on their hands…those lucky Fucking people.
I only wish I was lucky enough to live in a fucking village like Fucking Austria.