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- Perdue chicken ad, as mistranslated abroad
Hmmm.... I'm not a francophone, but I seem to remember that "perdue" is the feminine version of the French word for lost. Lost chicken? As in wanton? Well, then, this whole thing is beginning to make sense!
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Hey, Geoff, it took me a minute to realize the words about
Pert weren't yours. You might want to try using quotes, those little arrow things, colored "ink", or simply start with 'belMarduk said...'---so us slow ones can catch on.
Yes, I crack up every time I see a billboard for "Nads"!
Reckon those Aussies got some, but. A guy I worked with on my first job named his softball team The Nads, so the people cheering them on could chant, "Go, Nads, Go, Nads".
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Cheering SectionThen there is the apocryphal story about the cheerleaders at Norfolk High School in Norfolk, Virginia (pronounced locally "Gnaw-fk") whose cheer was; "We don't smoke, We don't drink. Norfolk! Norfolk!" (Sorry, Jackie -- it's more in your line.) 
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Had to read it three times before I got it, and then aloud the third time. Gawd, I must be tired!  Question: Were any of them actually the case?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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In response to "Pert shampoo was initially marketed under the same name here. Well it
didn’t sell very well since "pert" in French means lose." - there are more soaps and shampoos with the same problem, I think: Holland markets a shampoo called "Glans shampoo" ("glans" means "shine" in Dutch). And in Belgium there is a washing powder called Fanny Power...
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Welcome, O playing one!
Fanny Power powder? Oh my. I'm not gonna say another word.
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The Japanese have a sports drink called Pocari Sweat (actually pretty good, I think!) and I'm sure there used to be a lemonade -type drink in France called Pschitt.
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...and, the German bath design boutique named "Bad Design." In German bath translates to "bad," and design? Well, the Germans love to borrow cool words, especially from English these days.
Aside - Anyone else out there who grew up in a bilingual home enjoying wonderful bilingual jokes?
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Aside - Anyone else out there who grew up in a bilingual home enjoying wonderful bilingual jokes?
No, but you do know about the French kittens who went skating on thin ice, don't you?
Un deux trois quatre cinque.
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Exactly. The best are still the literal translations, though, and my dear mother's mangling of "south" and "something" when she's in a hurry...
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