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TGIF #969680
07/24/14 07:42 PM
07/24/14 07:42 PM
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Calera, Oklahoma
gymcandy1 Offline OP
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Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.
Alan Moore (1953 - ), Watchmen, 1986
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Funny Ad Campaign Blunders


And Slogan Mis-translations from American Advertising Compaigns in Other Countries and languages

In Taiwan, the translation of the Pepsi slogan
Come alive with the Pepsi Generation
came out in Chinese as Pepsi will bring your
ancestors back from the grave.

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:
It won’t leak in your pocket and make you pregnant.

Frank Perdue’s slogan It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken sounds much more interesting in Spanish. A photo of Perdue with one of his chickens appeared on billboards all over Mexico with a caption that explained:
It takes a hard man to make a chicken aroused (or)
It takes a sexually stimulated man to
make a chicken affectionate.

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

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

When Braniff translated a slogan touting its upholstery,
Fly in leather, it came out in Spanish as Fly naked.

The Microsoft ad slogan, as translated into Japanese:
If you don’t know where you want to go,
we’ll make sure you get taken.

Clairol introduced the Mist Stick, a curling iron, into German only to find out that Mist is slang for (to put it delicately) manure. Not too many people had use for the Manure Stick. This is the reason why Rolls Royce decided not to call one of its models the Silver Mist – for fear of lost sales in the German-speaking world.

When Chevrolet developed the Chevy Nova, they decided to market it heavily in Mexico, where the name translates as doesn’t go. The car was later renamed Caribe.

Ford had a similar problem in Brazil when the Pinto flopped. The company found out that Pinto was Brazilian slang for tiny male genitals. Ford pried all the nameplates off and substituted Corcel, which means horse.

The name Coca-Cola in China was first rendered as something that when pronounced sounded like Coca-Cola: Ke-kou-ke-la. Unfortunately, the Coke company did not discover until after thousands of signs had been printed that the characters used meant 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.

The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan finger-lickin’ good came out in KFC’s first Chinese campaign as eat your fingers off.

An American tee-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market, promoting the Pope’s visit. Instead of the desired I saw the Pope! (el Papa) Thousands of shirts proudly proclaimed in Spanish I saw the Potato! (la Papa).

Hunt-Wesson introduced its Big John products in French Canada as Gros Jos before finding out that the phrase, in slang, means big breasts. But in this case, the name problem did not seem to have a negative effect on sales.

Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious porn magazine. We know sex sells, but that might have been going a bit too far. Even for France, famous for having a more liberal attitude towards sex, nude pictures in advertising, etc.

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

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 many people can’t read English.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Good morning everyboomie. welcome


Welcome to the...............................................think................Friday.


Sorry I'm still in a weekend frame of mind.


Mine is over now, so it's back to the sea of sorrow at 5am on the morrow.


Actually it's a sea of sorry ingrate customers.


Did I say that out loud?


Actually most of them are pretty ok for Okies. The others I don't have a problem with until they crawl out from under their rocks.


Have a happy TGIF everyone.



joe



Last edited by gymcandy1; 07/24/14 07:45 PM.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.

William Butler Yeats
Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969684
07/24/14 08:40 PM
07/24/14 08:40 PM
Joined: Feb 2001
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Upper Arlington, Ohio
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Have a great Friday Joe. thumbsup


It's nice to be important but it is much more important to be nice.
Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969687
07/24/14 09:01 PM
07/24/14 09:01 PM
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Joe and Space, have a happy day!

I'll be in the corner finishing my project. hearts

Have a great day everyone!


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Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969690
07/24/14 09:44 PM
07/24/14 09:44 PM
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Massachusetts
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Hi. Home from work and it's still Thursday night for me. I hope you all have a fabulous Friday. Got my Amazon Fire Phone today. I'll go to AT&T tomorrow after work and have them activate it for me. I'd make a mistake I'm sure if I did it by myself. Can't wait to use it. Hey SPQfan, and Ana. Hope you finish your project in jig time.

Midgie hearts


Just do it.
Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969706
07/25/14 02:08 AM
07/25/14 02:08 AM
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Greece
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Have a great Friday Joe,Space,Ana,Midgie and all who come in later. happydance wave


I change all my passwords to "incorrect". So whenever I forget, it says, "your password is incorrect".

Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969710
07/25/14 03:23 AM
07/25/14 03:23 AM
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Sweden
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Hahaha, Electrolux. =)
I wonder how long ago that was?

Morning all by the way, no wine-head today!

Re: TGIF [Re: RebKean] #969713
07/25/14 03:59 AM
07/25/14 03:59 AM
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Somewhere ? in Massachusetts?
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Good morning all wave Coffee is on!Have a great Friday everyboomie yay


I may not have gone where I intended to go,but I think I have ended up where I need to be.

Sue
Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969715
07/25/14 05:01 AM
07/25/14 05:01 AM
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 25,109
Marlborough USA
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Good Morning Joe, SpaceQ, Ana, Midgie, Haroula, Reb and Sue. Joe keep smiling! SpaceQ have a great day too. Ana don't work to hard. Midgie let us know what you think of the phone once you start using it. Haroula enjoy your day. Reb glad you're feeling better. Sue thanks for the coffee. Happy Day All! summer


Gerry
Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969723
07/25/14 06:34 AM
07/25/14 06:34 AM
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winter springs fl.
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Good morning everyone. Going school clothes shopping with oldest son's girlfriend and her granddaughters. To all here and all who follow, have a Wonderful TGIF. Danish, French Toast, and BB Pancakes in the NC. summer


Connie
Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969726
07/25/14 06:52 AM
07/25/14 06:52 AM
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Posts: 18,262
Massachusetts
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Good Morning Boomers: summer

Joe, have a great day!

Haroula, happy day to you.

Sue, thanks for the much needed coffee.

Ana, hope the corner runs smoothly for you today.

Space, good morning.

Midgie, enjoy your new phone.

Reb, good day wishes.

Gerry, have a great day.

Connie, ah, I don't even want to think about school shopping yet. Have fun!

Wishing everyone a wonderful and peaceful day! catrub


Gail
Re: TGIF [Re: GBC] #969732
07/25/14 07:53 AM
07/25/14 07:53 AM
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Posts: 16,783
Upper Arlington, Ohio
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Good morning everyone. Welcome to the weekend. happydance


It's nice to be important but it is much more important to be nice.
Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969741
07/25/14 09:05 AM
07/25/14 09:05 AM
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 29,024
Unionville
manxman Online content
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Good morning boomers. wave Hope everyone has a fantastic Friday smile


Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one.
Re: TGIF [Re: manxman] #969750
07/25/14 10:04 AM
07/25/14 10:04 AM
Joined: Feb 2000
Posts: 10,450
Southern California
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wave Howdy ho, sweet Joe! Thanks for the openers! Hope your early work day goes easy peasy!

Good morning, sweet 'Boomies!

It's Friday!! woot

Alrighty, gotta skoosh! See you later!


Woohoo and booyah! smile Have an easy peasy day!
Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969752
07/25/14 10:09 AM
07/25/14 10:09 AM
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 14,625
northern Wisconsin
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Joe it's only three and tomorrow will be HUMP Day for ya so there is a light!! Thanks for the laughs and have a lovely day!

Space have a lovely day!

Well Ana......did the new med work for you? Hope you are at least a little better. HUGS! May the corner be kind and full of goodies and the puzzles solve quickly!! Have a lovely day!

Midge glad the new phone arrived safely and good luck with setting it up!! Have a lovely day!

Haroula have a lovely day!

Rebkean glad your head is better today! Have a lovely day!

Sue thanks for starting the coffee for us. Have a lovely day!

Gerry have a lovely day!

Connie have fun school shopping!! Good to get a head start on it before it gets crowded!! Thanks for the danish and have a lovely day!

Gail you have a wonderfully lovely peaceful day!!

Manxman have a lovely day!

Darlene HUGS! May work go smoothly and you have a lovely day!

wave
Nan

Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969774
07/25/14 12:10 PM
07/25/14 12:10 PM
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Lexington, Texas
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I have a dog. He's a black lab, Lutheran Dog and well mannered. Pastor and family had a dog and cat and Pastor accepted a call at a parish in the Cayman Islands. Their daughter took the cat but not Bud so kind hearted me said "OK". He's deaf and has cataracs and will be 12 either next month or December and has some hot spots -cancer. His chops and feet are white and right now he's in front of the floor fan cooling off. It was either put in quaranteen or put down at the vets so this way he gets a lease on life. I hope he likes it here and doesn't wander off as he doesn't see too well.

And that's my post today and have a good Friday all


I wish I were a cat and belonged to me ~ My Aunt Helen Mary Rose
Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969781
07/25/14 12:47 PM
07/25/14 12:47 PM
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Alabama
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Morning guys, tummy gone south, so time to relax and sip some ginger beer. wave


"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
-Roger Caras
Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969792
07/25/14 01:49 PM
07/25/14 01:49 PM
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San Diego, CA
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Aww Yankee, how nice of you to adopt yet another animal needing a home and lots of love. Good for you.

Penelope arrived a bit late, but was here by 8 am and tipped over the 'grapes' dish and scattered them all over the deck. I picked them all up and tried to toss her a few, but I guess she had eaten her fill. rotfl

STILL fighting with my old and new computers. I'd switch to the new one if it wasn't so darned hard to figure out. Friend helped me again last night for about an hour and got a few more of my old reliable programs working for me. Now I can play my music, look at my pictures, and hopefully the printer is working again. So many things to do.

OLD computer (the really old one from 1995) is still having boot up problems. I finally disconnected every thing from it, changed the circuit breaker bar and rebooted. Voila. Maybe it's fixed? Ha. Don't think so. It seems to turn itself off and restart WITHOUT the screen every time I go into the control panel to add/delete programs or do a search for something. I'm avoiding it for now. Can't figure out what.

Of course now I'm thinking conspiracy theory. Windows XP no longer 'supported' and maybe they just have a something that detects all XP systems and makes them fail so we will all have to buy new computers. Just a thought. It's happened on my old working computer, then on the clean reinstall and now on this one that was working (albeit slowly) before I switched). Makes ya wonder.

Off to play with security cameras. Got last night's install redone. It was too close to my hedge and glared all night. Moved it up and hopefully it will solve the problem. Those infrared cameras are great in the dark, but bounce light off things if they are too near.

Going to climb on a long extension ladder today. Hope I don't fall off. Ugh. Hate ladders, but no other way to get to the old camera wires that are zip tied to other wires. Gonna nip this one (literally with my wire nippers). Should be fine after that. All neat and clean and nice and awesome cameras.


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Re: TGIF [Re: Yankee Clipper] #969797
07/25/14 02:17 PM
07/25/14 02:17 PM
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Washington In the Wet corner
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HI YA Boomers~

ohhh Bless your sweet heart Yankee~ i bet he Loves his
new home hearts hearts lab

have a nice day everybody~

Karen summer puppy


"Horses are smart"

"You never heard of a Horse going broke"
betting on Humans~ Will Rogers~
Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969813
07/25/14 03:44 PM
07/25/14 03:44 PM
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In the Naughty Corner
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Yankee, that is awesome of you and I hope you both benefit from being together. puppy

Doc, good to see you here!

L4L, hope you feel better!

Midgie, enjoy your new phone!

Haroula, hope your day was great!

RebKean, how was your day?

Sue, hope all is well by you!

Gerry, anything fun planned for the weekend?

Connie, enjoy shopping.

Gail, how soon before the girls go back to school?

SpaceQ, hope your Friday was great!

manxman, happy day to you too!

Darlene, I hope you have a relaxing weekend!

Nan, the new meds made me sick. It was a bad night and morning. Back to square one. grin I'm making a pot of soup to ease my tummy now. Is the painting done?

Sorta, be careful on the ladder!


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Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969814
07/25/14 03:49 PM
07/25/14 03:49 PM
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Sweden
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My day, oh you naughty one, was hot Close to dying-hot. Still is.....
Thought I'd cool down with an Tarantino-film.
I cant spell to whitch/wich/which, but what film should it be this time I wonder?
Jackie Brown, Sin City, or Pulp fiction?

Yes I know Sin City is not a completely Tarantino one, but it's Close enough. =)

Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969825
07/25/14 04:51 PM
07/25/14 04:51 PM
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San Diego, CA
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Down off the ladder. All went well. Just waiting for new power supply for camera to arrive in the next few days and I'll be all done with that project. Found a 'power supply' behind my camera monitors that went to nothing. Ha. Finally located the camera it went with that was already packed away weeks ago. Cleared a lot of cables, wires, circuit breakers and all is looking neat.

Off to see if I can buy a new printer. I'm thinking my new HP hates my old Office Jet v40. Guess it is a dinosaur. All my stuff is. Just won't run my old programs. I'm hoping it will run games that I downloaded in the last few years. Haven't tried those yet. Might be in a mess there too. More to worry about.


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Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969858
07/25/14 11:10 PM
07/25/14 11:10 PM
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Sorta, glad you were successful on the ladder!


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Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969860
07/26/14 12:17 AM
07/26/14 12:17 AM
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Posts: 14,625
northern Wisconsin
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Aw Ana sorry they made you sick. Hope the soup does the trick! All that is left is the peaks and Becky has informed me that I am NOT allowed on the ladder way up there. lol Silly kid. I mean, just because my mom said that I was an accident waiting to happen duh I just go and be spotter for her when she is alone at the house.

Sorta glad you and the ladder made it fine!!

Time here to call it a day. Night everybody, sleep well and pleasant dreams!!

sleep
Nan

Re: TGIF [Re: gymcandy1] #969870
07/26/14 12:51 AM
07/26/14 12:51 AM
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Alabama
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Sweet dreams all sleep


"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
-Roger Caras
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