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[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 hours ago

It's not real and nor does it refer to fingers or your bum.

-ingen is a common suffix for towns in Baden-Württemberg. Tübingen, Reutlingen, Vaihingen, Villingen-Schwenningen are some of the bigger ones that come to my mind. But like half the towns are named -ingen.

So it's more like Hinter-tupf-ingen if you want to lose the finger association.

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