h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Oh that's wonderful, classic!

Let's not forget, a few miles South of Canterbury: Pluck's Gutter.

RF

There is a town in Austria called F**king

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking%2C_Austria

the first town in germany where drivers could fill up using BFG fuel coupons was called wankum

You can shoot clay up Six Mile Bottom.

http://www.sixmilebottomshoot.co.uk/

I spotted a chateau in Brittany called "Chateau d'O". I still want to go there at some point, just to find out who this guy "O" was and how he came to own a chateau.

Possibly from sales of the book?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-O-Pauline-Reage/dp/0552089303/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203080923&sr=1-1

RF

Nothing to do with Homer Simpson then

Perhaps...stranger things have happened.

Phuket International Airport


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phuket_Province

It took me a moment to get that one: I think that place has been in the news at some point, so I knew it is generally pronounced "Poo-ket".

Luckily.

http://www.texasescapes.com/AllThingsHistorical/Cut-and-Shoot-Texas-AM305.htm

Cut And Shoot?

There's a mouthwash called Retardex.

There's a soft drink called pschitt.

http://www.bpmlegal.com/wpschitt.html

I wonder why you can't get it here?

There is another thread in Ask covering similar ground... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F19585?thread=4910459 turvy

"The village (of F?!ing in Austria) is located... half an hour by car from the town of Petting, in Bavaria."

Touché.

Half an hour from Petting to F?!ing ??

On a first date that's pushing it.

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I plumb forgot about that town. Been near it but not through it.

A lot of towns here I've noticed tend to get their names in an odd way. Mentioned Unknown, but Tarzan ended up getting its name because the founders' original names for the town kept getting rejected, so they finally went to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel and put in names from the book: Tarzan, Jane, etc. Finally, Tarzan was approved by the state for the name, though I think any could've been used but Tarzan won because it was listed first.

Flower Mound is also an unusual name for a town here, but the high school mascot is more unusual - it's a farmer. Then we also have the Atlanta, TX rabbits (just rabbits, not jackrabbits, which would make a little more sense) and the Cuero Gobblers (turkeys).