****The Official Friday Silliness Thread****

[Lucky9teen]

Top 10 Most Brilliant Marketing Screw Ups….

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

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

3. 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.”

4. When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the U.S., with the beautiful Caucasian 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.

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

6. 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).

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

8. Frank Perdue’s chicken slogan, “it takes a strong man to make a tender chicken” was translated into Spanish as “it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate.”

9. The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as “Ke-kou-ke-la”, meaning “Bite the wax tadpole” or “female horse stuffed with wax”, depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent “ko-kou-ko-le”, translating into “happiness in the mouth.”

10. When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, “it won’t leak in your pocket and embarrass you”. Instead, the company thought that the word “embarazar” (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read:  “It won’t leak in your pocket and make you pregnant.”

[Lucky9teen]

Sister Mary Ann, who worked for a home health agency, was out making her rounds visiting homebound patients when she ran out of gas. Fortunately, an Exxon station was just a block away. She walked to the station to borrow a gas can and buy some gas.

The attendant told her that the only gas can he owned had been loaned out, but she could wait until it was returned. Since Sister Mary Ann was on the way to see a patient, she decided not to wait, and walked back to her car.

She looked for something in her car that she could fill with gas, and spotted the bedpan she was taking to the patient. Always resourceful, Sister Mary Ann carried the bedpan to the station, filled it with gasoline, and carried the full bedpan back to her car.

As she was pouring the gas into her tank, two Baptist ladies watched from across the street. One of them turned to the other and said, "If it starts, I'm turning Catholic."

[BibChr]

Top three!

[Lucky9teen]

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It's Friday!!!

Anyone need some silliness today?

[CholeraJoe]

[Rummyfan]

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

Happy Friday All!

[flaglady47]

Now that I’m totally dizzy from looking at your graphic. A hypnotist could make good use of it. I’m just staring at it, mesmorized..... who am I? Oh, that’s right, it’s Friday and I’m me, for the moment.

[struwwelpeter]

[Lucky9teen]

It's all Greck to me!!!

[struwwelpeter]

[Lucky9teen]

WTF?

[Graybeard58]

[Graybeard58]

[Lucky9teen]

It's so easy to psych out my frying pan...

[najida]

We all need silly.

[Lucky9teen]

I use the kitchen trash: can't stand all the comments...

[Ditter]

Hey, that’s old s*** for brains, I knew him!

[Graybeard58]

Probably not gonna get a ride:

[Lucky9teen]

[tumblindice]

Q: What do you give an elephant suffering from diarrhea?

A: Lots of room.

[E Rocc]

From Wikipedia:

“The Mitsubishi Pajero is a sport utility vehicle manufactured by Mitsubishi Motors. It is known as the Mitsubishi Montero in the Americas (except Brazil) and Spain, and as Mitsubishi Shogun in the United Kingdom. It was named after a mountain cat that inhabits the Patagonia plateau region in southern Argentina.[1] However, the name Montero (meaning “mountain warrior”) was adopted in Spanish language markets because Pajero is a slang term for “wanker”.”