jim hayes wrote:
>
> The list of disasters goes on and on in advertising "halls of shame", like
> the slogan "Come alive with Pepsi" of a few years ago that translated in SA
> to "Pepsi brings you back from the dead", but the best was in today's
> papers: Reebok named a women's running shoe "Incubus", an evil spirit that
> sexually attacks sleeping women. That really gets the "idiot gene of the
> year award"!
>
> jeh@fotec.com http://www.fotec.com/jim.htm
> veni, vidi, veloce
OK
How about the Russian language computer that translated the phrase
"out of sight, out of mind"
as "blind and mad"?
Mark Donaldson
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