12-18-2006, 03:43 PM
Quote:The good burghers of the Swedish village of Fjuckby have decided they've had enough of being the butt of fjuck jokes and are demanding a rebrand, The Local reports.
The Fjuckers finger globalisation as the principal cause of their woes, which "has led to rude English-language associations that the villagers could do without". To add insult to injury, Fjuckby also contains the Swedish word juck, meaning "hump" in the local lingo...
The solution to the problem is, the locals reckon, a reinstatement of the name Fjukeby which "as late as the 1930s... was the accepted spelling"...
full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/18/...h_village/
