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I was just looking at where I cycled today. I went through a village called Le Venon above Grenoble and there were two roads:. le chemin de la vielle pisse (old piss path) this led on to le ch. du Cul Froid (Cold Arse Lane). In this case the pisse is probably a fast running stream (not yellow).
My wife dealt with a case near Megeve in a hamlet called la crotte de la veille dame (old ladies turd)
Then there is Merdassier (shittery) so called because the mountain has had so much sheep grazing the top soil is sheep shit.
Well they amused me, very direct these agricultural types.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@davidof, I like it  my son was on a university ski trip to the Tarrentaise and they went past the turn off to Pussy. He pointed out that he had actually been down "Canyon de Pussy" It caused much merriment.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@johnE, I snigger immaturely every time we pass that sign.
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@davidof, not nearly as scatological, there is a reasonably new development (British developer) in Morzine, on ground known as (iirc) "les champs du vents".
Bizarrely the new proprietors spent much of their early residence complaining about how windy it was.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Boris, you're not the only one. It's a shame the major town on the sign isn't Nice.
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We have mates with a house in “La Cote Derrière”, ..”the side behind” might be a polite literal translation. Or, as we might say “the Ar*e end of nowhere”, which is a pretty accurate description of where it is!
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@davidof, not nearly as scatological, there is a reasonably new development (British developer) in Morzine, on ground known as (iirc) "les champs du vents".
Bizarrely the new proprietors spent much of their early residence complaining about how windy it was. |
does what it says on the tin !
Here's another local one
https://ignrando.fr/fr/parcours/1059647-col-du-merdaret-retour-par-le-cul-du-pet
shitty col, return by the bottom of the fart.
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@davidof, you are recommending that to me ... 
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@davidof, And now for a slightly more mature answer! I have been trying for years now to sort out what the names of the pistes, lifts and features translate as, here in Tgnes and Val. I have got hold of a copy of a Savoyarde dictionary, a Lo Terrachu Dictionary and with the help of some 'from the archive articles' from the Tignes Parish magazine I am working my way through them, but it does require a bit of imagination as some of the spellings have been 'modern french-ified' such as Lavachey (Savoyarde) becoming Lavachet and many have multilpe meanings.
As for Pisse, I have found it could be the source of something, a spring, a cascade or a waterfall. Interestingly, after Pisse it gives Pissailas as having the same meanings. So maybe the glacier above Le Fornet was seen as the source of the much larger glacier?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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There are lots of "Piddles" - for example Piddle Trenthide and Wyre Piddle, in England. The first in Dorset, second in Worcestershire.
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