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[–] 31 points 3 months ago (6 children)

In belgian french, we have "Outsiplou-les-Bains-de-Pieds". Made up town name that both sounds funny and too long to actually exist, but the Outsiplou part kind of means "listen if it's raining" in walloon. And "Perpète-les-Oies". Which you could translate to "Far-away Geese", which is plain gibberish but sounds like a lot of real places in France. There's plently of variations but they mostly try to invent a name that sounds like a stereotypical countryside village name.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    In Flemish (Belgian Dutch) we say: "In 't hol van Pluto" = literally in the arse of (The greek god of the underworld) Pluto.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Ooh I always thought it was Outsiploutte. In my area of France we have Perpète-les-Andouillettes (which kind of translates similar to les oies) and Pétaouchnoque.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I'm sure there's a bunch of versions anyway ! Each of my grandmas would surely have said it the differently from each other, although they were born 25km from each other.

    I do love how Perpète-les-Andouillettes rhymes !

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