"funny how?"
Happy Friday Edition
quotes:
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.Jack Nicholson
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.Billy Crystal
Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences money can buy.Steve Martin
It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.George Burns
I don't have a girlfriend, I just know a girl that would get really pissed if she heard me say that.Mitch Hedburg
You cannot outthink someone who isn't thinking.Albert Einstein
In a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly insane.Homer Simpson
It's better to be pissed off, then pissed on!Annonymous
He couldn't make me laugh, even if I was laughing my ass off and he was the one making me do it!Family Guy
Even a fish could stay out of trouble if it kept it's mouth shut!Annonymous
A good friend will help you move. A really good friend will help you move a body!Annonymous
Last week my tie caught on fire. Some guy tried to put it out with an ax!Rodney Dangerfield
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.Hunter S. Thompson
Is it possible to see something so funny, that it ruins your sense of humor forever?Eric Cartman
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.Will Rogers
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.Albert Einstein
I just thought of something funny...your mother.Cheech Marin
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.Peter O'Toole.
Who the [heck] wants to hear actors talk?H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
All I need to make comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.Charlie Chaplin
I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.Mel Brooks
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.Joe E Lewis
I can resist everything except temptation.Oscar Wilde
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.Pablo Picasso
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.Dennis Ritchie
Drinking for an entertainer is like stretching for an athlete.Mitch Hedberg
There are no good ways to die.Chick McGee
If you die, and you're in debt, you win.Ben Creed
If you can't spot the sucker at your table in the first thirty minutes, you are the sucker.Matt Damon, Rounders
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.Colette
You can go along way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.Al Capone
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.Mel Brooks
I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.Dave Edison
There is one thing I would break up over and that is if she caught me with another woman. I wouldn't stand for that.Steve Martin
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.Jim Carrey
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.George Carlin
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane!Jimmy Buffet
If you dedicate yourself to learning about your subject for 15 minutes a day, in a year's time you'll be an expert. In five years, you'll be a national expert. The only hard part is choosing your subject.Albert Einstein
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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."
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's 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.