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Reciprocity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 09:48 PM
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'Stop stealing our F**king signs'
(Sadly they never say what F**king means in Austrian.)

The mayor of an Austrian town called 'F**king' has appealed to British tourists to stop stealing the road signs.

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Siegfried Hauppl said the small town always attracted a lot of attention from tourists driving up from nearby Salzburg to pose for pictures in front of the signs.
But he said that, while the money they spent in the area was welcome, locals were fed up with having to replace the signs because people had been stealing them as souvenirs.


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"After all, F**king has existed for 800 years, probably when a Mr F**k or the F**k family moved into the area. The 'ing' was added as a word for settlement."
Apparently the villagers didn't find out about the English meaning of the word until British and American soldiers stationed in the area in 1945 started arriving in large numbers.
For more and picture of the sign
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1500991.html?menu=


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evil_orange_cat Donating Member (910 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 09:51 PM
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1. awesome
awesome
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 09:55 PM
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2. "W**k on the Lake" = "WANK on the Lake", right?
Edited on Mon Aug-15-05 09:55 PM by MrScorpio
I can't think of anything else
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democracyindanger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 10:08 PM
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4. Could be "Work on the Lake"
Sometimes I treat that word like an obscenity.
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Reciprocity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 11:39 PM
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5. I thought wanker was just a geek.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 10:06 PM
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3. They should capitalize on the demand
and SELL them to tourists, I would buy one if I went there.
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