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03-21-2008, 05:45 AM
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Country:  | You British are a randy lot! As for us in the states, we're alittle more sophisticated when it comes to naming our towns.
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03-21-2008, 06:30 AM
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Country:  | Shouldn't that be "WELCUM!" ..??!  | |
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03-21-2008, 06:37 AM
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Country:  | Are these two, two of the streets in town?? 
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03-21-2008, 01:40 PM
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Sorry guys, it's a good laugh, but I think it's a hoax...if it exists then it's a Gypsy tent camp,as the whole region is a swamp with no road access. There is a place called Franking, but that's a bit south of the weichsee.
| Try a google earth search. I did check it existed before posting.
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03-23-2008, 04:24 PM
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Country:  | 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"
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03-23-2008, 04:32 PM
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Country: | Well, in Norway there's a place called HELL....popular to send postcards saying "Been to Hell and back"...
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03-24-2008, 04:59 PM
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Country:  | 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").
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03-24-2008, 06:34 PM
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03-25-2008, 06:33 AM
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Country: | I take it that these names aren't political correct today, eh? 
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03-25-2008, 10:18 AM
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03-26-2008, 07:54 AM
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Country: | 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...
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03-26-2008, 08:11 AM
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Country: | 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!) | |
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03-26-2008, 08:17 AM
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Country: | 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.
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03-26-2008, 09:17 AM
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Country: | Ah, cool - I didn't know that.
Also: Australians living in Austria? That is just too weird and confusing...
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