Jump to content
N-Europe

Quote me this! Quote me that!


Daft

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 144
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

"Ray, if somebody asks you if you're a God, you say YES!" - Winston Zedmore in GhostBusters.

 

:D

 

And, and!

 

"Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you." - Louis Tully, again, in GhostBusters. :D

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Some classic Darkplace quotes.

 

Dean Learner: Garth is the most significant artist that I've worked with and I've worked with Lulu and four other people, so we're talking crème de la crème.

 

Dean Learner: I, got a script, read it. Scared me senseless, comme d'habitudes. And I said to Garth, I looked straight into his face, I've never been afraid of holding a man's gaze - it's natural. I said "this is going to be the most significant televisual event since Quantum Leap." And I do not say that lightly.

 

Garth Marenghi: (sat at his desk, reading from one of his novels The Told) Nina's eyes popped out of what was left of her back. Why oh why had she opened that tomb? The sand turned red. This was because she was bleeding on it. Blood - ruby-red blood, her blood. Blood… and piss and shit. This was the worst day of her life.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...

One of them walked past us in an attempt to make it across to the bar she made a point of grabbing both are arses as she walked passed.

I felt violated. Im not some piece of meat for them to drool over. I’m a person with real emotions and feelings.

Lol nah not really im a shallow manipulative man who would willingly exploit anyone to achieve my own goals.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...

Some mistranslated things:

 

In a hire car:

When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.

 

On an airsickness bag:

Bags to be use in case of sickness or to gather remains.

 

A Paris hotel:

Please leave your values at the front desk.

 

In another hotel:

Choose twin bed or marriage size; we regret no King Kong size.

 

A few examples and all genuine, I didn't make em up. :p

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Ha, it always nice to see this thread again. :p

 

"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons."

 

- Johann Schiller

 

"Words have no power to impress the mind with out the exquisite horror of their reality."

 

- E. A. Poe

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Some mistranslated things:

 

In a hire car:

When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.

 

On an airsickness bag:

Bags to be use in case of sickness or to gather remains.

 

A Paris hotel:

Please leave your values at the front desk.

 

In another hotel:

Choose twin bed or marriage size; we regret no King Kong size.

 

A few examples and all genuine, I didn't make em up. :p

 

oh dear lord - that had me chortle-ling with laughter :P

 

heres some funny things i found :P

 

These are the nominees for the Chevy Nova Award. This is given out in honor of the GM's fiasco in trying to market this car in Central and South America. "no va" means, of course, in Spanish, "it doesn't go".

 

The Dairy Association's huge success with the campaign "Got Milk?" prompted them to expand advertising to Mexico. It was soon brought to their attention the Spanish translation read "Are you lactating?"

 

Coors put its slogan, "Turn It Loose," into Spanish, where it was read as "Suffer From Diarrhea."

 

Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux."

 

Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick," a curling iron, into Germany only to find out that "mist" is slang for garbage. Not too many people had use for the "Garbage Stick."

 

When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the US, with the smiling baby on the label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the labels of what's inside, since many people can't read.

 

Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious porno magazine.

 

An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market which promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of "I Saw the Pope" (el Papa), the shirts read "I Saw the Potato" (la papa).

 

Pepsi's "Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation" translated into "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back From the Grave" in Chinese.

 

The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Kekoukela", meaning "Bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent "kokou kole", translating into "happiness in the mouth."

 

Frank Perdue's chicken slogan, "It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken" was translated into Spanish as "it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate."

 

When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you. "The company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant!"

 

When American Airlines wanted to advertise its new leather first class seats in the Mexican market, it translated its "Fly In Leather" campaign literally, which meant "Fly Naked" (vuela en cuero) in Spanish.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

My friend had a great one the other day, but it may take a little explaning

 

We went into a pub. We are all 19 so we ordered at the bar, the manager asked to see everyone's ID individually (annoying but we thought oh well). He took mine, and stared at it for over a minute. We were all quite confused. He then said "Well you're not 21 are you" and I replied "No, I'm nineteen" with a slight look at my friends (I mean come on the date was on the ID, obviously I wasn't 21) He told us that in that pub you had to be 21 to order a drink (RUBBISH!)

 

My friend then said:

 

"Oh sorry, I accidentally gave you my fake ID.......for getting into...............children's playgrounds?"

 

(It is possible that you had to be there to find it funny :( )

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Ha, it always nice to see this thread again. :p

 

 

Haha, neigh bother Count Daftula.

 

Nice follow up from Buttons there, I'd read most of them before though. :heh: Still funny like, linguistics is such a hoot.

 

I'll have to get reading again and post in again with some more philosophical pearly quotes of wisdom.

Link to comment
Share on other sites


×
×
  • Create New...