An Austrian town called.......

[Marcel]

The dutch love the swiss airport Kloten because of similar reasons. "Kloten" means in dutch balls or testicles. We make jokes about sending "Mooi kloten" postcards, strickly translated "Beautiful Kloten", but it is the dutch equivalent to "it sucks"

 

[Lucky13]

Well, in Norway there's a place called HELL....popular to send postcards saying "Been to Hell and back"...

 

[Clave]

There used to be a street in London called 'Gropecunt Lane"


The earliest citation of the word in the Oxford English Dictionary is a reference to the London street name "Gropecunt Lane" dated to about 1230. This was the name of a roads where prostitues went about their "business" Southampton, Hereford, Reading and Worcester had streets named "Grope Lane" in their town centres; the more explicit "Gropecunt Lane" was located in Bristol, London, York and Newcastle. Other similar names included Love Lane, Fondle Street and Puppekirty Lane (meaning "Poke Skirt Lane").

 

[Njaco]

 

[Lucky13]

I take it that these names aren't political correct today, eh?

 

[wilbur1]

Still funny though

 

[Clave]

I think those streets are long gone - especially in London - when you think of all the bombing, rebuilding, and redevelopment over the couple of hundred years...

 

[A4K]

Well, well...according to google it seems you're right Kiwi!
Didn't make it onto the F B Austrian map though (Considered to be the best...) with every town with a population of atleast 10 marked on it. Pride or prejudice ???
Anywhere else they'd seize the great tourism opportunity, but the Austrians can be a strange bunch. (Trust me, I've lived there!)

 

[plan_D]

The streets aren't all gone, Clave. All those that were called Gropecunt Lane or Grope Lane have been renamed - if you ever see a Grape Lane, or Grape Road; odds are it used to be called Gropecunt. I believe the last Gropecunt Lane was called Pelican Way in London.

 

[Clave]

Ah, cool - I didn't know that.

Also: Australians living in Austria? That is just too weird and confusing...

 

[Njaco]

Australianianians?

How about these?

 

[Lucky13]

Ladies and Gentlemen....just a few.

Ta Ta Creek (Canada)

Boysack (Scotland)

Anus (France)

Trim (Ireland)

Clap Hill (United Kingdom)

Tittisee (Germany)

Cockintake (United Kingdom)

Ballplay (Tennessee)

Caulkerbush (Scotland)

Agay (France)

Assloss (Scotland)

Bohner's Lake (Wisconsin)

Bigadic (Turkey)

Backside (Scotland)

Cockplay (Scotland)

Bangs Beach (Maine, USA)

Bare (United Kingdom)

Dickey (North Dakota, USA)

Blackdykes (England)

Pennis Wood (United Kingdom)

Gofuku (Japan)

Three Cocks (Wales)

Dickeyville (Wisconsin, USA)

Dunmovin (California, USA)

Peterhead (Scotland)

Mount Gay (West Virginia)

Beaverville (Illinois, USA)

Boody (Illinois, USA)

Bone Gap (Illinois, USA)

Vergennes (Illinois)

Little Dix Village (West Indies)

Tightsqueeze (Virginia, USA)

Iron Knob (Australia)

Big Knockerstown (United Kingdom)

Climax Springs (Missouri, USA)

Fertile (Minnesota, USA)

Ironwood (Minnesota, USA)

Willacoochie (Georgia, USA)

Moreheadsville (Pennsylvania, USA)

Weener (Germany)

Deep Gap (Tennessee, USA)

Glasscock (Texas, USA)

Seman (Alabama, USA)

Long Dong (Guangxi, China)

Titless (Switzerland)

Onacock (Virginia, USA)

Maiden Gully (Australia)

Penistone (England)

Fort Dick (California, USA)

Gash (Iran)

Probe (Utah, USA)

Butztown (Pennsylvania, USA)

Thong (England)

Mary's Inlet (Canada)

Bobbin Head (Australia)

Mount Titlis (Switzerland)

Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)

Elephant Butte (New Mexico, USA)

Dikshit (India)

Pis Pis River (Nicaragua)

Blowhard (Australia)

Sexbierum (Netherlands)

Reamstown (Pennsylvania, USA)

Pecker's Point (Newfoundland, Canada)

Lickdale (Pennsylvania)

Pickles Gap (Arkansas)

Nether Wallop (England)

Petting (Germany)

Mount Mee (Australia)

Titting (Germany)

Titty Ho (England)

Yocumtown (Pennsylvania, USA)

Fugit (Kentucky, USA)

Assinippi (Massachusetts, USA)

Big Cockup and Little Cockup (England)

Cocktown (Wexford, Ireland)

Cockburn (Australia)

Bangor (Wales)

Dyckesville (Wisconsin, USA)

Ballville (Ohio, USA)

Prickwillow (England)

Black Charlie's Opening (Australia)

Kinmount (Ontario, Canada)

Euren (Wisconsin, USA)

Cockland (Ohio, USA)

Spuzzum (Canada)

Bloody Dick (Montana, USA)

Shafter (California, USA)

Beaver (Oklahoma, USA)

Mt. Buggery (Australia)

Handcock Town (North Carolina, USA)

Shitlingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)

Sackville (Canada)

Twatt (Orkney, UK)

Muff (County Donegal, Ireland)

Maggie's Nipples (Wyoming, USA)

Bone's Knob (Queensland, Australia)

Fingringhoe (Essex, UK)

Titz (Germany)

Needmore (Texas, USA)

Fruitport (Michigan, USA)

Zip Down (Pennsylvania, USA)

Mount Holly (New Jersey, USA)

 

[wilbur1]

nice lucky!

 

[Clave]

Take me to the top of Mt. Buggery! oh wait...

What a great list!

 

[A4K]

As they'd say here Lucky, KIRÁLY!!! Great list!

And re Austria, the most popular tourist T-shirts in Wien (Vienna ) have the Aussie 'kangaroos crossing' road sign on them with the motto 'There are no kangaroos in Austria' !

(...And I'm a kiwi, BTW!!!)