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Tuesday, July 26, 2005

My Next Vacation Town

What small town in Austria with a population of around 150 souls was founded in 1070 A.D. and has a name that stands for 'place of Focko's people' in Germanic? You guessed it: Fucking, Austria. The sign to the entrance of the town (see photo below) is the most stolen street sign in all of Austria. Although in German the word means absolutely nothing (the one you want to scream at your accountant is ficken), the townspeople did have a vote to change the name in 2004 but ended up deciding not to. The article in Wikipedia lists some other interesting town names, so I might make a gallery with all the authentic photographs of these town's street signs in the near future (Lost, Scotland and Hell, Norway are up there).



















The sign at the bottom reads 'Please - not so fast!'

1 Comments:

At 4:11 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

There's Point No Point, on the WA State coast...

 

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