My apologies if this has been posted in the "Again" thread. I have not read all 23+ pages of reply........

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Hard to believe it's been almost eleven years......

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Hope this billboard wasn't on the expressway leading to the airport!.....

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Oh, God. Should we have a very black humour thread? :sad:

During the 9/11 - I happened to be in a pub for lunch - the weirdest feeling was that it felt like a movie. How do the blackest scenarios come true? (even the Titanic was preceded by a book describing almost identical shipwreck of a ship called Titan).

Yeah, that one of the World Trade Center is eerie.

It's strange seeing the towers in older movies as well.

Wow..... there is dark and then there is.....not appropriate. I'm thinking this is not the former. :hmm:

I'm wondering if the cover of the Entertainment Magazine was already in print (maybe not yet released) before the massacre. It wouldn't be the first time.

http://stlouiscore.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/President-harry-Truman-dewey.jpg

Looks like the Entertainment Magazine was dated July 14th, 2012. At least the page of the story was.

Sorry, the link didn't work. It's a blog. If you Google "entertainment magazine batman" and select images, it shows up there. You can go to the story by opening the picture then hit Website for this image.

McDonalds McWrap - fantastic! Never eaten one, but ordered loads!

Video: McDonald's European marketing gaffe - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financevideo/8635247/McDonalds-European-marketing-gaffe.html#)

Yeah, that one of the World Trade Center is eerie.
The UAL 767 that was flown into the towers, taken pre 9-11 at KEWR, with the twin towers in the backround (visible under the tail)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/flynverted/planes/0339863.jpg

Isn't there a car called the 'Pajero' and it means 'w@<hidden>' in Spanish?

Must be some good ads for that?

Mitsubishi, ain't it?

Called the "Montero" in Spain.

Mercedes almost came a cropper in Finland with the "Vito". Pretty close to a rather strong profanity over there........

And, I believe, the 'Nova' didn't go down too well in Spain.

Unfortunately, madsdad,

snopes.com: Nova Don't Go (http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp)

In Hong Kong just before the SARS outbreak they had a tourism campaign with amazing scenes of Hong Kong with the slogan "Hong Kong - it takes your breath away". This campaign was withdrawn very quickly. Brilliant campaign just very unfortunate timing......

angels, looks like you are correct:

pajero- en sentido sexual significa " ******/tosser"
it can also mean liar.

(Collins, Spanish Dictionary)

Rolls Royce cars were intending to call one of their models the Silver Mist, until it was pointed out that mist means manure in Germany.

From a word reference website:

Mitsubishi should definitely get a Spanish assesor - they've called another or their cars "laputa".

Literally: "laputa" "the-hore".

Heavens forbid, the w@<hidden> and the whore.

Tair enoughm Hells.

One I definitely remember reading about though was in the European Touring Car championship in the 60s in the round at Estoril the car speonsored by Cona Coffee was black-flagged after the first couple of laps of practice and taken from the pits under police escort. Apparently nobody realised/remembered that 'Cona' has a different meaning in Portugese.

Not as "unfortunate" as the ad run on NBC after Gabby Douglas won gold.......

That's what you call a MAJOR "Oopsie"

For those of you unaware, this is what HB was referring to.

Poor sound quality though.

NBC: 'No Offense Was Intended' By Commercial That Played After Gabby Douglas Win (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/03/nbc-gabby-douglas-commercial-monkey_n_1739244.html)

Spanish friends of mine do refer to Nescafe as "No es cafe" - "It isn't coffee"

And I would say they were right, Fox3

Not to mention the Ford Pinto.

(slang in Spanish for small member)

I believe that Orange the phone company had an advertising campaign for Belfast with the words "The future is Orange", would have been interesting.

Then there is the well known diy store whose logo is also orange that shipped a few container loads of humane mole killers to NI and advertised them only to be told that there are no moles in Ireland.

This story is kind of bad:

I've only been to the Towers twice...I liked the Empire State Better...I went to the observation area once (1997???)...and although I am very afraid of heights--- an observation area isn't bothersome...but those buildings always, made me feel weird,even just being near them...and I had a very 'trapped' claustrophobic feeling there and was glad to leave the building...not just wanting to leave the deck...but get out of the building and get far away from them...at the time it was inexplicable...

...in 1998?...I returned there for a date with this girl, but that day the observation deck was not open,...and as I was at the bottom trying to see the top, I was thinking "Imagine that whole thing collapsing in the middle of Mahattan-it would be the worst"...,then I thought,..." Imagine flying a large jet into that", but I was thinking like "impossible the flight paths to LGA, JFK or EWR get nowhere near those buildings..."

This account,for me, is sad, I recall that the only fireworks that make me very sad is from the cover of this book Fireworks-A History Of Celebration, that I own by the late litterary genius, George Plimpton...

The photograph is a shot of the Bicenntenial Celebration ,...before this was the only picture of the Towers that I actually liked, because they ALWAYS kind of 'frightened me'... however my thoughts on architectural matters were simply "functional and boring" becuase for some reason I never liked those Towers...thus, this dislike of the Towers was not not even architectural, but before the 9-11 attacks I loved that picture because I could use the towers to scale the size of fireworks and develop tables for them...although I still love that book, that photgraph is very haunting/chilling...to me and I hard to convey how much I really love fireworks, they are magical to me, I never thought possible that fireworks could make me so sad...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C8DOd7oHL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

just curious, and of course it's none of my business, but is there a reason why you use three full stops instead of one? :O

Probes...I have lots of problems typing on this I can write correctly, but between my slight dyslexia, and this formatting...Sompe times I make no sense, and feel, without MS word, or better yet Word Perfect I'm hopless. I develop that habit for one of two reasons..for visual spacing...and just a 'nervous habit...afraid to type nonsense...I can write well I know the rules...but i'm used to verbal communication and scribbling on a black board and my mind races here, fatser htan my hands can keep up...with some of the complex question, that are asked here...I see I've done it one million times in this post too.............;)

:)
Btw my dyslexia does NOT affect instrument reading or anything because I have the dyslexia tricked...;)

thank you, although I was wondering just about the ... - which actually scatters the message for some people (me incl. I guess I 'read' the punctuation, too - if there's indication for leaving the sentence 'hanging', I do, and if there are too many, I just get 'hanged'.). Not writing correctly or otherwise. My father has a nasty habit of too many exclamation marks, though, so it could be worse, of course.
So, once again, sorry for poking my nose.

Orange the phone company

Ah yes, the geniuses who named their mobile service zero-range. :ugh:

Wow..... there is dark and then there is.....not appropriate. I'm thinking
this is not the former. http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/yeees.gif



CoF...I don't think this thread is innapropriate...when loss is suffered...one goes though Ross' five stages...but upon reconcialiation...it is natural to try to deal with these very sad thing through humor...it's part of the grieving process...:)

Anyone who remembers an airport ground service company named LAGS ?

Continuing the drift to car names...I had thought no-one could improve on the Dacia Duster when it came to sheer "who thought that was a good idea?" incredulity, but now we also have the Dacia Lodgy - I defy any native English speaker not to mentally submit "Dodgy" for the second word.

And without too much effort the MR2 (Mazda) in French can be pronounced "merde". [Emm-air-deux]

In the USA some complained that Porsche 911 should have the number changed.

In fact in Britain, and europe in general, the date was 11/9 as logically, from small to large, you have day / month / year. However we now also refer to it as 911 as it is a term used specifically for that terrible day.

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Mitsubishi should definitely get a Spanish assesor - they've called another or their cars "laputa".
Saw one of these in Tokyo once (I thought it was a Mazda but whatever). My first thought was to wonder whether it has Hooker harnesses.

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I like the "Fukufuku" Japanese biscuit. So good they named it twice.

I know. Very childish.

Does the irony get any worse than this?...:O:O:O
http://www.media-digest.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/wtc-asbestos-ad.jpg

http://blog.nerdery.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/camelirony.jpg

This is for CoF: My title was "unfortunate" advertising, not "funny" advertising.

There was nothing funny about my first two submissions. I thought they were tragically profound.

The only one even remotely funny would be the cockeyed billboard.

I would never have posted the twin towers ad right after 9/11 either. It's been almost eleven years; one would hope that those who suffered a personal loss have gleaned a great deal of healing and closure.

I never said funny either. Clearly it isn't meant to be that.

Everyone posts freely, their opinion and I posted mine. No harm, no foul, V2. :ok:

I wouldn't call this form of humor 'funny' it's ironic...:)

PA... perhaps you could visit this website, since you have already posted how you don't agree with my opinion.....

www.beatingdeadhorse.com


;):p



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CoF - Okay. Thanks for that. I was worried I offended you (and others perhaps).

Hope you are having a good summer! :cool:

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