News Item: Austrian town of Fucking changes its name . .

Tired of the ridicule, fed up with the Fucking sign-posts being stolen, the town is changing its name to . . .

(Wait for it . . . )

Fugging

This, apparently, is considered an improvement?
Link to news story.

The story is apparently true, but a similar story circulated in 2012 turned out to be false. As Wikipedia stated at the time, in a report whose wording could not possibly have been improved upon, “The Fucking mayor denied these rumours when contacted.”

If people would just take some dam pictures instead of stealing the Fucking signs, they wouldn’t have had to change the name.

Here’s a quick video about Fucking I found a year or so ago.

If all else fails, try Wank

Or Felching.

The Raw Story article I linked does mention a nearby town, just across the border in Germany, called Petting.

Ah, shame. I guess that’s going to be the end of the best-named beer ever, Fucking Hell (‘hell’ of course denoting the style, a ‘Helles’, ‘hell’ meaning ‘pale’). I wish I’d kept a bottle of it…

I think it was Eddie Izzard who spoke of a German who decided to escape the ignominy of having the former Fuhrer’s surname, so he thought tacking an “S” onto the beginning of it would be the right way to go.

Muff, County Donegal, Ireland, continues unabashed. There’s even a Muff Diving Club (seriously).

Intercourse Pennsylvania

My sentiments exactly!

And strangely, all of the streets in the town are either “Fucking” or “Wolfing”. How do they deliver mail?

There’s about about 2 dozen buildings in the city and 4 or 5 roads, one of which is Wolfing, everything is is Fucking. I’d wager that all the buildings have unique numbers, as opposed to the same group of numbers on each block (like you’d find in a grid system). So, it might require a slight familiarity with the city, but the entire town looks like it would only take about 5 minutes to walk from one of to the other.

I’ve heard about those.

Which – a touch ironically – is only about 15 minutes from Blue Ball, PA.

Did they do this because they know about Norman Mailer’s 1948 novel The Naked and the Dead?

Owing to the threat of censorship back then, Mailer used “fugging” instead of “fucking” throughout the book.

This lead to the (apparently apocryphal) story about a female celebrity who, upon meeting him, said “Oh, you’re the young man who doesn’t know how to spell ‘Fuck’”.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/03/12/fug/

Bird in Hand, PA.? Just down the road from Fertility? WTH?

A really true True Fact: The route from Blue Ball, PA, to Paradise, PA, goes directly through Intercourse, PA.

I gather all these are small, unincorporated hamlets. Google maps shows several routes from Blue Ball to Paradise; if you go via PA-23, you’ll miss going through Intercourse.

^ Nice! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: The Amish are pulling our leg, aren’t they, English?

Wrong body part.

Likewise, US 666 in Arizona and New Mexico was renumbered as US 491, mostly because the US 66 it was a spur of had been eliminated but also because the signs kept disappearing. After the announcement of the number change in 2003, it got worse.

Although sign theft has always been a problem along this highway, thefts reached epidemic proportions when the pending number change was announced. Within days of the announcement, virtually every US 666 sign had been stolen, some for sale on eBay.[34] Officials in Utah reported that five entire sign assemblies had been cut down with a chainsaw and stolen, while New Mexico officials reported that even signs welded to metal posts, as a theft deterrent, had been stolen. Officials speculated from one scene that someone had intentionally crashed a car into the sign post to break the welds.[26]