Chancer Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Do you have any strange or amusing town or village names in your part of France?I was amused to drive thorough a place called Pi55y recently.I also had a girlfriend who was born in Loose in Kent, you can guess what her nick-name was!But the two villages in this article on Free.fr really do take the biscuithttp://actualite.portail.free.fr/insolite/24-10-2010/les-habitants-de-fucking-en-ont-assez-des-britanniques/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachapapa Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 SAINTE VERGE[:)]http://www.linternaute.com/humour/dossier/07/village/7.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Well, the obvious CONDOM. Probably the most photographed village sign in France - by Brits, anyway.Around here, MEJANNES-le-CLAP always sends our sons in to juvenile hysterics - and they're well beyond the age of juvenile humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTrash Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 I have friends who live in PRAT, in Brittany.A place that makes me smile - now - is the beach where possibly due to a combination of sun, wine and and excess of joie de vivre, I slipped on the rocks and ripped the skin off my elbow down to the bone, scarred for life I am, and it happened at Coudeville-plage (geddit?? = Elbowtown!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 Chancer's link doesn't seem to work, maybe too rude?There is a wide selection here, and more here .I used to have a picture, which I can't find at present, of a French village sign for 'Les Bians'.Meanwhile, the French find some English names funny too - see here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 We stayed at a place in Italy called Pisogne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 Seem to be several small hamlets around called Les Clots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkkent Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 There is a place in Essex called Ugley. It used to be the home of the Ugley Women's Institute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTrash Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 There is a Slack Bottom near Hebden Bridge in W. Yorks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted October 26, 2010 Author Share Posted October 26, 2010 Yes the forum software has editted the link, had I looked carefully at the URL and realsied that it carried the rude word I would not have posted it.For those that wish to replace the asterists to use the link it is a 7 letter word, the present continous participle of the English gros mot for the sexual act, its the the name of a village in Austria IIRC where they are getting fed up of crank callers from radio DJ's and people being photographed beneath the village name signs, hopefully not in the act!It also describes how the occupants of another town (German) called w**k decided to use the notoriety to their benefit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairyNuff Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 [quote user="Clarkkent"]There is a place in Essex called Ugley. It used to be the home of the Ugley Women's Institute.[/quote]There's a village near Bradford called Idle. It has the Idle Working Men's Club. FairyNuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 I was born close to Paradise.It's a village in Gloucestershire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 [quote user="Chancer"]For those that wish to replace the asterists to use the link it is a 7 letter word, the present continous participle of the English gros mot for the sexual act, its the the name of a village in Austria IIRC where they are getting fed up of crank callers from radio DJ's and people being photographed beneath the village name signs, hopefully not in the act![/quote]The mayor is said to be fed up telling (mostly British) tourists that there are no f****** postcards [blink] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 [quote user="Cathy"]I was born close to Paradise.It's a village in Gloucestershire.[/quote]There's also a Paradise in Norway, it's near Trondheim. And Trondheim's airport is at a place called Hell. So I can safely say that I have had a bus ride from Paradise to Hell in the space of half an hour or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 then of course there is Piddletrenthide on the River Piddle in Dorset Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted October 28, 2010 Author Share Posted October 28, 2010 Pratts Bottom anyone? [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nectarine Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 I have friends in a village called Christmas Pie, in Normandy ... which is in Guildford, Surrey.Near here we have a hamlet called Ba5tard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evianers Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Not here in France, but not far up the road in Switzerland, actually in the beautiful Gomsertal, there is a little village called Bitsch. Many English-speaking folk stand at the entrance of the village where the sign is situated and have their photo taken. Not me though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evianers Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 [quote user="just john "]then of course there is Piddletrenthide on the River Piddle in Dorset[/quote]A dozen years ago, almost bought the old bakery in that village. Wonder how different our lives would have been if we had in fact gone ahead with the purchase? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pouyade Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Near our house in France are the village of 'Arces' and the hamlet 'Grosse Tete'.Pouyade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 We used to have friends who lived in Scr*w Corner, near Guildford I think.I know it's slightly off-tack, but visiting French children of my acquaintance have gone into paroxysms of laughter over "pet shop", "pet food" etc signs.And they think that the "soft verges" road signs in the UK are pretty funny too.Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cendrillon Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 pouyade wrote the following post at 01/11/2010 16:36: Near our house in France are the village of 'Arces' and the hamlet 'Grosse Tete'.We too are not far from Arces but I don't know Grosse Tete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkkent Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 [quote user="just john "]then of course there is Piddletrenthide on the River Piddle in Dorset[/quote]And in the Vale of Evesham is Piddle Brook. It rises near Inkberrow (one of the places on which "Ambridge" is modelled) and flows into the Avon at Wyre Piddle. Some years ago some wag tried bottling - and selling - Piddle Water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 There's a village called Pity Me in co. Durham. And Once Brewed in Northumberland. Both very strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 I still snigger at the very, very old joke:"Hampton Court?""No, it's just the way I walk". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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