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Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot,
but anyone going faster is a maniac?

I’m not into working out. My philosophy is: no pain, no pain.

I’m in shape. Round is a shape.

I’m desperately trying to figure out why Kamikaze pilots
wore helmets.

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your
groin unprotected.

A lady came up to me on the street, pointed at my
suede jacket and said, “Don’t you know a cow was
murdered for that jacket?” I said “I didn’t know there
were any witnesses. Now I’ll have to kill you too.”

Ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face he gets
mad at you, but when you take him in a car he
sticks his head out the window?

I’ve always wanted to be somebody, but I should have
been more specific.

You have to stay in shape. My mother started walking
five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 now and
we have no idea where she is.

I have six locks on my door, all in a row. When I go out,
I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long
somebody stands there picking the locks, they are
always locking three of them.

They show you how detergents take out bloodstains.
I think if you’ve got a T-shirt with bloodstains all over it,
maybe your laundry isn’t your biggest problem.

Ask people why they have deer heads on their walls and
they tell you it’s because they’re such beautiful animals.
I think my children are beautiful, but I only have photos
of them on the wall.

The following are items found overseas in which people have made inappropriate use of English words for various products, and bizarre menu items in restaurants.

Cold shredded children and sea blubber in spicy sauce - China

Indonesian Nazi Goreng - Hong Kong

Muscles Of Marines/Lobster Thermos - Cairo

French fried ships - Cairo

Garlic Coffee - Europe

Sole Bonne Femme (Fish Landlady style) - Europe

Boiled Frogfish - Europe

Sweat from the trolley - Europe

Dreaded veal cutlet with potatoes in cream - China

Rainbow Trout, Fillet Streak, Popotoes, Chocolate Mouse - Hong Kong

Roasted duck let loose - Poland

Beef rashers beaten up in the country peoples fashion - Poland

Fried friendship - Nepal

Strawberry crap - Japan

Pork with fresh garbage - Vietnam

Toes with butter and jam - Bali

French Creeps - L.A.

Fried fishermen - Japan

Teppan Yaki - Before Your Cooked Right Eyes - Japan

Pepelea’s Meat Balls - Romania

Product Names

Clean Finger Nail - Chinese tissues

Kolic - Japanese mineral water

Creap Creamy Powder - Japanese Coffee Creamer

Swine - Chinese chocolates

Libido - Chinese soda

Pocari Sweat - Japanese sport drink

Shocking - Japanese chewing gum

Cat Wetty - Japanese moistened hand towels

Pipi - Yugoslavian orangeade

Polio - Czechoslovakian laundry detergent

Crundy - Japanese gourmet candy

Superglans - Netherlands car wax

I’m Dripper - Japanese instant coffee

Zit - Greek soft drink

Colon Plus - Spanish detergent

These are fabricated corporate slogans that would never have made if far if they entered the real world.

Microsoft: “How much are you going to pay today?”

MTV: “Loud and easy to spell.”

Saks 5th Avenue: “You Could Shop Here if You’re Poor, But That Would be Stupid!”

Iguana: “The other green meat.”

Nike: “Just buy the shoes, you flabby spineless lump!”

Daisy Air Rifles: “Keeping kids off your lawn for over forty years.”

Canon Photocopiers: “Quit calling them Xeroxes!”

Apple MacIntosh: “Hey, we thought of it first!”

Radio Shack: “You’ve got questions, we’ve got geek losers!”

Professional Bowling on NBC: “Oh, why don’t you just go ahead and kill yourself instead?”

Below are fine examples of what happens when marketing translations fail to reach a foreign country in an understandable way.

Coors put its slogan, “Turn it loose,” into Spanish, where it was read as “Suffer from diarrhea.”

Clairol introduced the “Mist Stick,” a curling iron, into German only to find out that “mist” is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the “manure stick”.

Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: Nothing sucks like an Electrolux.

The American slogan for Salem cigarettes, “Salem-Feeling Free”, was translated into the Japanese market as “When smoking Salem, you will feel so refreshed that your mind seems to be free and empty.”

When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the US, with the beautiful baby on the label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the label of what’s inside, since most people can’t read English.

An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market which promoted the Pope’s visit. Instead of “I saw the Pope” (el Papa), the shirts read “I saw the potato” (la papa).

In Italy, a campaign for Schweppes Tonic Water translated the name into “Schweppes Toilet Water.”

Pepsi’s “Come alive with the Pepsi Generation” translated into “Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave,” in Chinese.

When Parker Pen marketed a ballpoint pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to say “It won’t leak in your pocket and embarrass you.” However, the company mistakenly thought the spanish word “embarazar” meant embarrass. Instead the ads said that “It wont leak in your pocket and make you pregnant.”

The name Coca-Cola in China was first rendered as Ke-kou-ke-la. Unfortunately, the Coke company did not discover until after thousands of signs had been printed that the phrase means “bite the wax tadpole” or “female horse stuffed with wax” depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 Chinese characters and found a close phonetic equivalent, “ko-kou-ko-le,” which can be loosely translated as “happiness in the mouth.”

Also in Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan “finger-lickin’ good” came out as “eat your fingers off.”

When General Motors introduced the Chevy Nova in South America, it was apparently unaware that “no va” means “it won’t go.” After the company figured out why it wasn’t selling any cars, it renamed the car in its Spanish markets to the Caribe.

Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious porno magazine.

Public service announcements around the world.

USA: “It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your children are?”

Italy: “It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your husband is?”

France: “It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your wife is?”

Poland: “It’s ten o’clock. Do you know what time it is?”