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Trillian's child Started conversation Aug 18, 2000
Loved it, loved it. If I wasn't recovering from an operation, I'd have split my sides, but I had to keep clicking away so as not to.
Refer to Richard Lederer's book "Anguished English". I keep it handy and have yet to open it without ending up in fits. It contains more of these type of things
Examples: "Buy our bikinis - they're simply the tops"
(Newspaper headline): "Judge rules over nude beach"
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Bluebottle Posted Oct 12, 2000
Yay - I'm glad you liked it here. 
If you find any more jokes you think are great, let me know.. I just love these ones - a lot of them have been e-mailed to everyone about 40 times, but they're still great and unbelievable.
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Jul 25, 2002
There is a lot of these I didn't know, but one that I've heard about 20 times.. Do you make a database of all the jokes?
-- DoctoRMO --
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Mr. Legion Posted Jul 26, 2002
I heard one that should fit in there somewhere. A washing powder manufacturer wanted to break into the Arabic market, so took out one of the standard 'before-after' ads in an Arabic newspaper. They had neglected to find out that things are read right-to-left in Arabic, so it appeared to readers that the clean clothes were going in and coming out filthy.
Not sure if it was Arabic, actually. Could have been Chinese. Which reads from right to left?
I love Pepsi Generation one, made me ROFLMAO
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Jul 26, 2002
hehehe, thanks
-- DoctorMO --
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Bluebottle Posted Jul 26, 2002
Israel perhaps?
I keep being e-mailed jokes like this. The ones I find funny get put online.
<BB<
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Hoovooloo Posted Jul 27, 2002
Chinese is written vertically, I think... Arabic or Hebrew are both right to left.
Car names which had to be changed included the "Nova", which didn't sell well in Spain where its name meant "doesn't go", and the Ford Pinto didn't appeal to the virile male Mexican population, what with the word "pinto" being slang for "small willy" and all...
H.
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Jul 27, 2002
hehehehe.
-- DoctorMO --
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Peta Posted Jul 28, 2002
The toyota MR2 had problems in France.
MR2 is pronounced M Er deux, which said with the appropriate french accent makes for a bit of a s****y car.
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- 3: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Jul 25, 2002)
- 4: Mr. Legion (Jul 26, 2002)
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- 6: Bluebottle (Jul 26, 2002)
- 7: Hoovooloo (Jul 27, 2002)
- 8: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Jul 27, 2002)
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