Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: PaulKing on October 31, 2006, 01:21:49 pm
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The Pepsi generation strapling had to be pulled in asia as it translated to "brings your dead relatives back to life"
When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you."The company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant"
Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick," a curling iron, into Germany only to find out that "mist" is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the "Manure Stick."
Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux."
And now we have a new product with the Name
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Best to goolge a name and check it out first is the moral of this story! ;)
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I guess no ones googled it yet then?
here is the website
http://www.male-rape.org.uk/
Many survivors say that the hardest part of coming to terms with what has happened is to learn to stop blaming themselves.
TALK about your anger
TALK about your feelings
TALK to someone you can trust
must be strong stuff that M power!
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I did google it and found a better one than that :D :D :D
www.m-power.org/ (http://www.m-power.org/)
ita site ran by people with mental health problems for people with mental health problems.
so its where all the nutters get together, quite apt really :D
Mike
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Lol!
It reminds me of the time Vauxhall-Opel tried to launch the Nova in spain..sound exactly like "No go" in spanish.
They subsequently branded it as the Corsa for overseas markets.
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Why the post?
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Why which post, Nigel ?
robbie
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Wondered what people were getting at, now I see.
But as I believe they say in marketing any exposure can be good.
So this keeps M-Power on the agenda, I guuss :-\
Nigel