- a transport road safety ad - had a four-year-old girl saying it when her father, driving a ute, accidentally splashes her shoes when going through a puddle of water. Still, I guess bad language doesn't pay, because she gets hit by a car a couple of seconds later

Thanks, 1000 Ship Launcher.

and, there are scads of stories about how us marketer's failed to check out a translation, and wordered why there marketing effort failed...

My favourite one is Ford's attempts to sell the Nova in Central and South America ... in Spanish, "no va" means "doesn't go". You can imagine the sales graph. Talk about flatliners!




The idiot also known as Capfka ...