The world's top 13, although there are many:
1) 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 "kokoukole", translating into "Happiness in the Mouth";
2) General Motor's Chevrolet Nova car in Spanish in Central and South America: "No va", "It Doesn't Go";
3) Dairy Association's huge success with the campaign "Got Milk?" in
Anti-sex and Anti-masturbation positions
Kellogg, an advocate of sexual abstinence, devoted large amounts of his educational and medical work to discouraging sexual activity, on the basis of dangers both real - as in sexually transmissible diseases - and purported. He outlined his views on the subject in his book, initially titled Plain Facts about Sexual Life. Kellogg's book was published in various editions in the late 19th Century, later retitled to Plain Facts for Old and Young. Some of his
This is an article from the Nation today:
"Court orders ex-girlfriend to pay Bt2 million to tutor king's wife
The Central Family and Juvenile Court Thursday ordered a former girlfriend of tutor king Doctor Prakitpao Thomchitchong to pay a compensation of Bt2 million to his wife for having affairs with him.
The court convicted Pemika Weerachairaksit of being a lover of the doctor and thus ordering her to pay the compensation to his wife.
Pemika will appeal against the ruling.
The Nation"
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Despite being a member of TF for 4 years or more I have never dated anyone over the internet and I guess part of that is the reason is that doing it online you can create impressions and expectations that cannot be fulfilled in a cyber world.
Have a look at this ABC News article from Feb 2008:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/PCWorld/story?id=4282014
While it is funny it does demonstrate the weirdos you can meet (most of them men). But even sadder than that is the scammers who are now amo
It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico where she purchased the coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right?
That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.
A collection of rules and observations to live your life by.
1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead.
2. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow.
3. Do not walk beside me either, just *#!! off and leave me alone.
4. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a flat tyre.
5. The darkest hours come just before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbour's milk and newspaper, that's the time to do it.
6. Sex is like air. It only becomes really
Just some philosophical imponderables for you to muse upon this week, just shows the inconsistencies in the English language.
Ponder on these imponderables for a minute:-
1. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
2. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
3. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
4. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
5. If love is blind, wh
My apoogies to all Australians out there reading this but as an Australian myself I can take a joke too. But here it goes:
IN GENERAL
1. Never take an open stubby to a job interview.
2. Always identify people in your paddocks before shooting at them.
3. It's tacky to take an Esky (Esky is an Australian brand of cooler box) to church.
4. If you have to vacuum the bed, it's time to change the sheets.
5. Even if you're certain you're included in the will, it's rude to take your ute and
You know you're living in the computer age when:
1. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is because they do not have e-mail.
2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
3. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
4. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
5. Every commercial on television has a web site address at the bottom of the screen.
6. You
Two Aerials meet on a roof - fall in love - get married
The ceremony was rubbish but the Reception was Brilliant.
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Man goes to the docs, with a strawberry growing out of his head.
Doc says, "I'll give you some cream to put on it."
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"Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home."
"That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome."
"Is it common?"
So here are some ‘real-life’ and ‘unedited quips’ from the complaints and responses founds in the problem sheets filled by the captains and technicians of Qantas.
Key: P: Problem logged in by the captain.
S: Solution provided by the technicians
P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.
P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.
P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Someth
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A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its
throat was very small.
The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.
The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah".
The teacher asked, "What if Jonah went to hell
