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Tumidaj, Poland.
There are plenty of places with names that sound funny to English speakers, like Fucking, Austria and Batman, Turkey. The little town of Tumidaj in Poland means “Give it to me here” in Slovene. And, yes, it really exists. Luckily for them there aren’t that many Slovenian tourists or else the sign would end up regularly stolen.
(Thanks Matjaž!)
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How does one Mapquest Tumidaj in Slovenia? Or, rather, if one needs to ask for directions to Tumidaj, are they, without even a Howdee-do, heave-hoed back to Austria?
Funny thing, manners. If you’d ask for directions to Intercourse, PA, the Amish would tip their hats and point you in that direction.
That direction being Hell, yes. But, they would at least point.
Had a decent comment here tying in Intercourse, PA,, but one of the words must have hosed me up…..
Bevaer, CO and Cumming, GA do come to mind.
there are people in Germany with strange family names:
German phonebook
Why, we have our own “Fokovci” in Prekmurje…
The funny thing is it actually means the same in Polish.
Been there, seen that. I’ve visited Cracow (by car) around the New Year, and we drove by.
I’ve been hoping for the famous Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams to get translated into Slovenian one day.
Containing Fokovci as a term for “rural people who have sexual intercourse on Sundays only, due to heavy workload during the week” or something really funny. I wonder if one could do that with Slovenian place names…
We don’t have town names that translate into something funny in Slovene, but the Flemish part of the national broadcasting corporation is called VRT (Vlaamse Radio en Televisieomroep),which means many Flemmings are unknowlingly are watching a garden (unfortunately seldom one of delight).
We do have our own funny names for towns, like Geel (Yellow) Paal (Pole), Bierbeek (Beer Creek), Leut (Fun (slang)), Reet (Ass) and several more I can’t recall right now. Well, one does come to mind that everyone can get : Ham, the town where I was born. The people are aware of the comical properties of the name and flaunt with it. We go so far as to call the male population Hamburgers (how appropriate when you’re a vegetarian, haha!) and the females Hamsters…
There are 3 places in Slovenia that indicate a fascination with a certain part of human anatomy. Ritmerk, RitomeÄ?e and Ritoznoj.
Right. Less funny is Radomer (possibly coming from “people tend to/like to die”)…
There’s a village FuÄ?kovci in Bela krajina. Signs for village not stolen. Yet.
How about Zgornji KaÅ¡elj (Upper Cough)… I know, there’s nothing sexual about it, but still…
Here in Canada we also have some weird town names like: Dildo, Newfoundland; Vulcan, Alberta; Moose Factory, Ontario; Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia; Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec; and Swastika, Ontario…
lol. No way!
Moose Factory? - probably Alcessa’s already trying to get a plane ticket
I’m off to Canada (using my broomstick) - see you guys! Byeee…..
During the first Gulf War, there were soldiers stationed in Saudi Arabia who made special trips to have their picture taken by the sign welcoming them to ‘As Shair’ I’m sure it means something perfectly respectable in Arabic, but in English, ….mbwahahahaaha!
The result is people who have that as a surname have modified it to the ungramatical ‘al Shair’ Some famous terrorist or other has that name.
this site has gone downhill a bit, owner is not putting the effort in that he used to. he should consider sharing it with someone to take away some of the burden.
Apparently, the most stolen sign in America is the sign for Bong Recreational Area in southeastern Wisconsin. That is our only claim to fame here and the locals are quite proud.
Another non-sexual, but my fave: Great Snoring in Norfolk. Near Little Snoring, of course.
Found a nice little place in Cyprus:
Santalaris, Sandallar-Åžehitler
If you’re a moose fan Alcessa, then I’m sure you’d like Canada. We’ve got at least 9 towns featuring that creature in its name. My favourite being Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Sometimes, but it’s really rare, we even get moose that wonder near big cities too…
Some people actually made a version of “The Meaning of Liff” in Czech, with the names of Czech towns. It’s here.
Dave: yes, I love moose. I’ve only seen pictures of Canadian moose so far (they are bigger than their European relatives) and I do hope to get there one day. In the meantime I spend my summer holidays in Sweden, where they also have moose, but unfortunately only as toys and souveniers, the real ones are nowhere to be seen…
Mira: It looks great! I somehow feel challenged to try it my self