Saturday, May 28, 2011

The fart cafe

I got this shot from the bus window today. I've seen this name for cafes and bars a few times. One of my linguist friends here says it's from the word 'fartuna'- fortune. Anyone out there know any more?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

:D
"Фарт", meaning "luck" in Ukrainian and Russianб is a part of names of many companies. For example, in Кivne there are "Fart Service" and "Fart Lik":
http://rivne.org/goldfr.htm
http://rivne.org/cat/fartlik.htm

alleykat said...

Thanks Roman!

Laura Jelinek said...

That's SO funny.....people from home get amusement from our "Fart Hinders" here....among other funny words.

Extrem4 said...

Hope you had a gute fahrt.

Ethel said...

when my future hubby and i were in Switz. before getting married with a group of others skiing..there was a street named Gute Fahrt in Bern, I believe. We took a picture of a bunch of the guys standing in front of the sign. Did you go in the cafe to see if it was true advertising?

Anonymous said...

Is this blog sleeping??? :) greetings from Ottawa.

alleykat said...

possibly hibernating...I had to finish a handbook for the university, and now we are diving into the whirlpool of summer fun!