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Posted: 26th Mar 2005
Was the Feuerfest the one that made the "Stuff" t-shirts for Staff?

"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)

Owner of Dragosani's left half

Posted: 26th Mar 2005
"All your base are belong to us" Cats from Zero Wing (jap - eng)

Chevrolet & Vauxhall Nova cars had to be translated in latino-speakin countries because 'No Va' mens 'doesn't go'

Spanish again: A Parker Pen "won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you." Parker though that embarazar means "embarrass." It actually means "impregnate."

Germans pronounce v as f, which meant that Vicks was a homonym for a nasty German word for sex.

Mist is also a German vulgarism, and refers to human excrement. This became a problem for Irish Mist whiskey and Clairol's Mist Stick.

Coca-Cola ran afoul of the Chinese alphabet. The name on its bottles read ke-kou-ke-la, which meant "bite the wax tadpole." That got changed to ko-kou-ko-le, which means "happiness in the mouth."

You may "come alive with the Pepsi Generation," but in Taiwan the slogan became "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back from the Dead."

Pepsi subsidiary Kentucky Fried Chicken may sell "finger-lickin' good" chicken, but the Chinese were told to "eat their fingers off."

Posted: 26th Mar 2005
austrian english?

sounds something like this:

ei dont no wei u r laffing at mei inglish

its quite amusing....

"is optimism in austria just a lack of information?"
-Alfred Dorfer

Posted: 26th Mar 2005
*reads konsti's post out LOUD*

having visions of basil fawlty...