Not sure I'd want my missus covered in this

[Venod]

Wankerbar was a brand of tubular tyre made in Russia. Someone imported a batch into this country where they gained cult status

Were they easy to pull off ?

 

[Lullabelle]

Donkeys years back when the first Mrs SJ used to watch one of the Aussie soaps, one of the girls in the serious came out with the phrase, "Wow, he's a spunk" to describe a character she fancied. Furthest I've ever spat my tea.

The Aussie comedy Kath and Kim, one of the guys is described as a hunk of spunk

 

[slowmotion]

Erm, can't see this selling well in the UK, except perhaps in selected lay bys and quiet forest car parks...

http://www.spunkwear.com/

Wandering about the rag district of Istanbul not too long ago, I stumbled on a manufacturer of umbrellas. Quite handy to carry one about if you choose to buy some of those clothes.

 

[perplexed]

Do yer want this on yer waffle?

 

[stephec]

@classic33 I think it's time for a cup of tea.

 

[Mugshot]

I remember being in an English lesson at school and the phrase 'he sure had a lot of spunk' coming up in the (can't remember what but obviously American) book we were reading, you can imagine the amusement this generated with a bunch of 12 year old's.

I had a very similar experience in an English lesson, we would have been around 14, one of the boys made a derogatory comment about somebody famous, the teacher, clearly very annoyed by this shouted "he's got more spunk in his little finger than you have in your whole body!" at the boy that had made the comment, it didn't really have the effect she had hoped for.

 

[vernon]

This is a major ingredient of Patrick's imaginary cuisine

 

[Drago]

The story goes that year's back Hyundai announced to their importers around the world that their new small car would be called the Atos.

In a panic the UK importer called head office, but the language barrier caused a problem of understanding. Legend has it that he had to fax a pencil drawing explaining what "A toss" meant in Blighty. The car was quickly renamed Atoz for he UK.

 

[Poacher]

Mitsubishi didn't check very carefully before launching the Pajero in Latin America, but soon discovered that very few drivers fancied driving around in a car labelled "self-gratification artist". My brother picked up a bargain in Antigua when they offloaded hundreds of cars at low cost.

 

[Tim Hall]

Ob. cycling: Pompino is what the papers describe as a "sex act" in Italian. But I think On One chose that name deliberately.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I remember advertising boards around the pitches in the 1974 football world cup with the name Van Nell Shag on them. Which was very amusing to a 13 year old boy.

 

[RichardB]

Strangely I find the American avoidance of these kind of words amusing, I was once told that my dog had
"gone to the bathroom" on their lawn, it took me a while to figure that out.

I had a similar one, where an American girl I was speaking to was mortified that she had had to go to the bathroom outdoors. Huh? But of course the words 'toilet' and 'lavatory' originally signified places where you went to wash, so presumably they were the 'polite' terms at the time. Eventually, we will need new ones. The Americans have 'bathroom'. What will British 5-year-olds be sniggering at in 50 years' time? Facilities? Fnarr.

I prefer 'thunderbox'. No messing.

 

[Drago]

Crapper - plain speaking. When I announce that I'm off to The Crapper for a Forest there's no doubt what I'm saying.

 

[Arrowfoot]

The story goes that year's back Hyundai announced to their importers around the world that their new small car would be called the Atos.

In a panic the UK importer called head office, but the language barrier caused a problem of understanding. Legend has it that he had to fax a pencil drawing explaining what "A toss" meant in Blighty. The car was quickly renamed Atoz for he UK.

The car manufacturing industry spends millions to get the model names right for each country and sometimes they also look into a a country's various sub-culture as any errors would cost many more in sales. I was particulary surprised that even do this for paint names. The colour codes are the more accurate representation.

 

[Drago]

Car manufacturers spend millions on this but still make cock ups with the Mitsubishi Masturbator, the Toyota S**t, the Opel Won't Start and VW Essex Girl.