You wouldn’t be laughing if you were from F---ing, Austria. Well, okay, maybe you would, a little.
The town is sick of the vulgar jokes, and they’re finally casting their ballots about changing the town’s name. Some say it’s bleeping time.
It wasn’t always this way. The tiny hamlet in northern Austria, home to 104 residents, lived in peace until U.S. troops discovered the town at the end of World War II. Ever since then, residents have had to endure an endless stream of jokes and disrespectful tourists.
At least 13 road signs from the small Austrian town have been stolen, although the vandalism is offset somewhat by a boom in sales of local postcards. (The town’s name is actually pronounced “foo-king,” and not what its spelling would suggest.)
Experts say the town’s name is derived from Focko, a 6th Century Bavarian nobleman, and the modern spelling was adopted in the 18th Century.
Franz Meindl, the village’s mayor, declared in an interview that “People are now willing to discuss changes to the spelling of the name. But first all F—ingers have to agree on whether want to change it or not.”
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