Entertainment & Music - 14 December 2007

2007-12-14 22:11:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

"Have you seen my pills, they were labelled LSD?".
Granny: "Fcuk the pills, have you seen the dragons in the kitchen!"

2007-12-14 22:11:06 · 2 answers · asked by WISKERS 2 in Jokes & Riddles

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2007-12-14 22:09:38 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-12-14 22:08:54 · 51 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Cracking an international market is a goal of most growing corporations. It shouldn't be that hard, yet even the big multi-nationals run into trouble because of language and cultural differences. For example...

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."

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

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

The American slogan for Salem cigarettes, "Salem - Feeling Free," got translated in the Japanese market into "When smoking Salem, you feel so refreshed that your mind seems to be free and empty."

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.

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.

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."

An American t-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the spanish market which promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of the desired "I Saw the Pope" in Spanish, the shirts proclaimed "I Saw the Potato."

Chicken-man Frank Perdue's slogan, "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken," got terribly mangled in another Spanish translation. A photo of Perdue with one of his birds appeared on billboards all over Mexico with a caption that explained "It takes a hard man to make a chicken aroused."

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

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

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

Japan's second-largest tourist agency was mystified when it entered English-speaking markets and began receiving requests for unusual sex tours. Upon finding out why, the owners of Kinki Nippon Tourist Company changed its name.

and finally...

In an effort to boost orange juice sales in predominantly continental breakfast eating England, a campaign was devised to extoll the drink's eye-opening, pick-me-up qualities. Hence, the slogan, "Orange juice. It gets your pecker up."

By the way, these are all true!

2007-12-14 22:08:32 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Jokes & Riddles

2007-12-14 22:08:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Music

An Amish boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and back together again.

The boy asked his father, "What is this, Father?" The father [never having seen an elevator] responded "Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don't know what it is."

While the boy and his father were watching wide-eyed, an old lady in a wheel chair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched small circles of lights with numbers above the walls light up.

They continued to watch the circles light up in the reverse direction. The walls opened up again and a beautiful 24-year-old woman stepped out.

The father yells to his son, "Hurry boy - go get your mother!"

2007-12-14 22:07:26 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Jokes & Riddles

he had cancer and then in his late 30's he gets hooked up by his sister an erotic novel writer, with a journal writer and then loses weight and wears a fat buddha necklace to win her heart...pretending to be a motorcycle rider who likes being by himself and makes her fall inlove with him although she has a relationship with another man who ends up cheating on her....

2007-12-14 22:07:14 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Movies

i live in australia. and rock band has not been released yet.
Can you please tell me were it is?!?

2007-12-14 22:05:37 · 6 answers · asked by Nathan W 2 in Rock and Pop

2007-12-14 22:03:51 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

helping others?

2007-12-14 22:02:22 · 37 answers · asked by misskitti7® 7 in Polls & Surveys

if you are pushed

2007-12-14 22:01:54 · 44 answers · asked by misskitti7® 7 in Polls & Surveys

2007-12-14 21:59:37 · 3 answers · asked by Candice M 1 in Other - Music

2007-12-14 21:58:46 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

...you throw all your "germaphobic" caution to the wind and make out good and sloppy with another party goer you just met and hour ago?

(For me...?!? I'll do that sober...)

2007-12-14 21:58:40 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-12-14 21:58:30 · 5 answers · asked by Incognito 3 in Polls & Surveys

I love you guys!

(ps... I may be infected with alcoholic substances at this very moment...)

2007-12-14 21:58:09 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-12-14 21:56:52 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

....There's going to be quite a few inches of snow where I'm at this afternoon.

2007-12-14 21:56:13 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Im sorry, but i cant stand the rap theyre putting on the air. It all sounds the same. Rock on the other hand.....

2007-12-14 21:55:35 · 17 answers · asked by BHS Via Sol 5 in Polls & Surveys

I have. But he did not like me once we met.

2007-12-14 21:53:58 · 41 answers · asked by Annie 1 in Polls & Surveys

2007-12-14 21:52:20 · 14 answers · asked by I know a lil' bit about that 5 in Polls & Surveys

1. whip cream or chocolate syrup
2. mud or sand
3. basketball or football
4. rainy or sunny days
5. fireplace or heater

2007-12-14 21:52:05 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

it was suggested i post this in beer,wine+spirits!! :)

2007-12-14 21:51:40 · 11 answers · asked by shrebee 7 in Polls & Surveys

i don't understand how they have the permission to tape all those people

2007-12-14 21:50:32 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Be truthful!!!

2007-12-14 21:49:37 · 25 answers · asked by lalalala. 3 in Polls & Surveys

I mean just listen to the **** (pardon my french) you hear on the radio!! For example, that veronicas song, what was the name of it.. ah yes, forever or something. That song and the Pink song had exactly the same melodic progression!
And what you hear today will be out of the 'popular songs' list and criticized as being 'old' in a matter of weeks!
I mean come on. A good song never dies. You might fall in love it now, then re-listen to it a few years later and still love it as much as you first did.
There is so much bullshit playing on the radio these days.. Artists putting something on the market for the sole reason of making money. What happened to passion man?! What happened to originality?!

2007-12-14 21:49:29 · 5 answers · asked by Mr. Cloud 2 in Other - Music

you always see them on people's eyes like in spas and stuff

2007-12-14 21:49:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-12-14 21:48:29 · 22 answers · asked by Buddy Hodor 7 in Polls & Surveys

If so, is there something you've been told you said while asleep that was embarassing or strange?

2007-12-14 21:48:03 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys