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Bright Blue Shorts Started conversation Mar 29, 2010
Entertaining piece on how internet filters for spam are becoming an issue for some revered institutions ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8528672.stm
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Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee Posted Mar 29, 2010
Never mind Scunthorpe...I pity people who are into windsurfing and waterskiing. Google 'watersports' and many of the sites are...not quite what you'd necessarily want.
True story:
I used to have a recipes site. One of the recipes was for slow-cooked quince that I brought back from Turkey. I quoted 'The Owl and the Pussycat' alongside it. My traffic analysis showed that a disturbing number of peolle arrived there looking for 'Turkish Pussy'.
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Xanatic Posted Mar 29, 2010
There´s also a problem with different languages. For example the word "slut" is very harmless in Danish.
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Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee Posted Mar 29, 2010
I have a sign taken of me in Sweden next to a sign reading 'slut'.
But my famous Swedish sign was was a No Entry sign: 'Farthinder'.
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Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee Posted Mar 29, 2010
More amusing Scandiwegian:
http://bonoboworld.blogspot.com/2007/11/faux-amis-pour-mes-vrais-amis.html
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Icy North Posted Mar 29, 2010
If you go to Amsterdam and follow signs for 'slagroom' you'll get whipped cream.
I know - maybe you would have anyway 
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Xanatic Posted Mar 29, 2010
I suppose you didn´t notice them selling small packages of spunk to children in Denmark.
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Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee Posted Mar 30, 2010
No...but a friend in Germany likes to show his coworkers his tin of Mushy Peas. 
Which only works in bilingually.
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Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee Posted Mar 30, 2010
(And I was 
alarmed to see a DVD on that topic openly displayed on a stand at Copenhagen's Central Station.)
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Lanzababy - Guide Editor Posted Mar 30, 2010
If I just _have_ to buy sliced bread over here, for toast - then I make it my duty to buy the brand named 'Bimbo'
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Giford Posted Mar 31, 2010
We spent hours trying to follow the signs to Slaggate in South Africa.
Gif 
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