Clipmarks |

Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:39:18 GMT

clipped by: rocker
clipper's remarks: Hilarious Translations!

Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever

1) 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 "kokoukole", translating into "Happiness in the Mouth."

3) 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?"

8) 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.

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

Tags: slogans, translations, coca cola, baby food, humour, funny, idiotic

Patterns in Nature: Enigmatic Earth

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:16:32 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

Reflecting off water, light paints peacock-feather patterns onto a rock wall in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah.

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

Iridescent spots surround the mantle of a giant clam in Palau, Micronesia. The mantle is a fleshy outer layer that secretes the clam's shell.

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

Bursts of yellow punctuate a cactus in Manzanillo, Mexico.

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

Exhibiting its main defense mechanism, a millipede curls into a tight spiral. In this fashion it protects its legs—on average between 100 and 300, not the thousand its name suggests—inside its body.

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

The scales of an Atlantic salmon, such as these on a fish in Quebec, Canada, can help biologists determine the fish's age.

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

Seen here 400 times their true size, diatoms are a type of algae found in oceans, fresh water, and soil.

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

The complexly branched arms of the basket sea star, or starfish, catch plankton for the echinoderm.

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

Sunlight radiates through the Xpacay cenote in the Mexican Yucatán. Cenotes are freshwater sinkholes usually found on the Yucatán peninsula.

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

Tags: images, photography, nature, patterns

8 (actually 9) Questions about Christianity by a Christian

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:15:02 GMT

clipped by: Jaycer17
clipper's remarks: A nice healthy faith can take a little questioning and rise.

Clip Source: www.brandonhammonds.com

1. Why would an omniscient God create billions of souls, knowing full well the vast majority of them would burn in Hell for eternity?

2. How have the words of man (e.g. Virtually the entire Bible, minus direct quotes from Jesus) become equal with what we believe to be the words of God?

3. If “God is not mocked” how can someone like Jeffery Dahmer spend eternity in Heaven due to an 11th hour prayer, meanwhile <insert absurd injustice of your choice> spends eternity in Hell?

4. Where is the historical evidence of even just one miraculous happening from the OT?

5. Where are the “signs and wonders” today?

6. If “God is Love” and “I the Lord do not change,” what’s with the genocide in the OT?

7. How can we pretend the aforementioned and many other instances of brutality found in the OT jive with the life of Jesus?

8. If the original sin through Adam doomed all of mankind without any action on their part, why isn’t the death of Christ enough to redeem mankind without any action on our part?

Tags: christianity, god, catholics, criticism

Plants enjoy hot smelly sex in the tropics

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:19:49 GMT

clipped by: pokkets
clipper's remarks: But theres no respect in the morning, more like a dutch oven

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Stephen Pincock

It's a relationship characterised by rejection, deceit and too much perfume. An affair played out not on the pages of a gossip magazine, but among Australian insects and plants.

When the temperature rises and the male cone gets too smelly, these insects leave and find a female cone to pollinate

an ancient plant species that grows in southeast Queensland uses its natural scent to manipulate the insects it relies on for pollination.

The plant, called Macrozamia lucida, is a cycad, an ancient group containing species that look part-fern, part-palm, but are in fact related to neither.

This particular Australian cycad can reproduce only with the help of tiny insects called thrips, which in turn rely on cycad pollen for food.

"The relationship is very intimate," says Associate Professor Gimme Walter from the University of Queensland, co-author of a report in today's issue of the journal Science.

"If you take one out of the equation, the other can't manage."

Tags: plant, sex, thrip, flora, fauna, cycad, insect, reproduction