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Botswana Goes Engrish
Many people in the West love poorly translated English texts from Asia. However, I picked up this cool one in Botswana. We bought some toilet paper from the local grocery store. It is labelled Fu Qiang Paper Company
with the text Gives-me-more
below it on the front. On the side it says More Cleaner & Softer
and 2-Layer Facial Tissue
.
WTF? Facial Tissue? I thought this was toilet paper! It comes in a roll, it has a brown hardish paperish thing in the middle so that you can hang it up next to your toilet on that holder thingy, etc. Oh, maybe they're talking about that face... Eish I get caught every time with that one...
Maybe they need to see the facial tissue and toilet paper wikipedia articles. :)
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4 Comments
Comment by
Szavanna on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:01:00 PM
Excellent post :)
Comment by
Charl van Niekerk on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:08:00 PM
Flied lice? :)
Comment by
Stii on Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:43:00 AM
HAHAHAHAHA! Good one! I didn't even see that!
Comment by
Charl van Niekerk on Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:21:00 PM
Stii: I saved the wrapper specifically for this post. :)
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