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sonicice
07-24-2008, 06:39 AM
http://www.freshbite.info/fnews_1216773864_10489.htm
Enjoy...
Red Kittie Kat
07-24-2008, 06:59 AM
some of those are pretty funny ... not sure how many are manips though ;)
jdjtcagle
07-25-2008, 12:33 AM
lol!
budafist
07-25-2008, 01:58 AM
I lol'ed. Or is it lol'd?
I don't get the Hong Kong/fireworks one?
vtwin_gary
07-25-2008, 02:23 AM
the giant carrot made me lol
Randomhero
07-25-2008, 02:44 AM
I liked the Yanni with boobs one lol.
urstwile
07-25-2008, 02:51 AM
I lol'ed. Or is it lol'd?
I don't get the Hong Kong/fireworks one?
Psss't, Buda, check out the carrot at the top in relation to the woman's butt.
budafist
07-25-2008, 03:09 AM
Psss't, Buda, check out the carrot at the top in relation to the woman's butt.
The carrot and butt one is funny, but the Hong Kong one is another picture. Or is it supposed to be part of the carrot one?
urstwile
07-25-2008, 03:13 AM
OIh, you're right, I think it's separate. Color me confused as well.
Lousy air quality in Hong Kong makes the tagline funny??
Not sure either.
budafist
07-25-2008, 04:42 AM
Phew...I thought I was losing it. Don't you hate when everyone else is laughing and you don't get it?
urstwile
07-25-2008, 05:10 AM
Yup!
The only other thing I can think of is the "Life is Exciting" followed by "Hong Kong Will Take Your Breath Away" (which would maybe make you dead?)
budafist
07-25-2008, 08:26 AM
Lousy air quality in Hong Kong makes the tagline funny??
Not sure either.
Close!
I just had to ask The Googe. I was born in Hong Kong so I was naturally curious about this one.
This slogan was launched at the time of the SARS outbreak.
With the burgeoning Sars epidemic spreading fear among travellers worldwide, the Hong Kong tourist board must be ruing the day it commissioned a series of magazine ads telling readers a visit to the city will "take your breath away".
Shortness of breath is one of the main symptoms of Sars - severe acute respiratory syndrome - a deadly new strain of pneumonia that started in southern China and quickly moved to Hong Kong before spreading around the world.
More than 100 people have already died from Sars and there are at least 3,000 reported cases worldwide - though most of the fatalities and cases are in China and Hong Kong.
garricks
07-25-2008, 02:05 PM
Oooh, really bad timing! :eek:
seamas
07-25-2008, 02:55 PM
Reminds me of a scene I saw on the street not far from my house.
A pet shop expanded into the shop next door, which was formerly a Butcher shop, and retained the signage.
(this is Queens, and there are places where folks use what we consider to be pets as livestock, so maybe it is still a butcher shop :eek: )
Virgo Nightingale
07-25-2008, 03:19 PM
Did they expand recently and not quite get around to removing the old signage yet? I hope that's the case, I can't see that as something that a prospective pet owner would like to see as they walk in to take home a new loved one. Unless of course, as you hint at, it will be loved as a stew or an offering to the gods...
WannaBrie
07-25-2008, 04:44 PM
very funny! The carrot one killed me too!
seamas
07-25-2008, 05:17 PM
Did they expand recently and not quite get around to removing the old signage yet? I hope that's the case, I can't see that as something that a prospective pet owner would like to see as they walk in to take home a new loved one. Unless of course, as you hint at, it will be loved as a stew or an offering to the gods...
By all appearances it was an expansion -though it was a really schlocky pet store.
And while I forgot about the animal sacrifice angle (there are Santeria practitioners, but I think they stick to chicken), yes, there are places in Queens where people can get delicasies from the old country but under under assumed names.
There are Korean places on Queens Blvd that serve something called "special goat part", which is a special part of an animal (always a male)-but not from a goat in this case.
Bow WOW.
Virgo Nightingale
07-25-2008, 05:22 PM
I know they like their dog in China. One busboy I used to work with was telling me that he ate dog every so often back home. "Ees good! Ees good!" :eek:
seamas
07-25-2008, 05:54 PM
I know they like their dog in China. One busboy I used to work with was telling me that he ate dog every so often back home. "Ees good! Ees good!" :eek:
I have a friend from Shanghai, well educated, but still professes the magical properties of certain animal parts of certain critters (endangered or not).
"My grandfather ate the _____ of a _____It made him STRONG!".
I also knew a French waiter (must have been 5th generation waiter, loved waiting on tables and up-selling) from Provence who often talked of missing horse.
"I love a horse a meat"
urstwile
07-26-2008, 05:12 AM
Close!
I just had to ask The Googe. I was born in Hong Kong so I was naturally curious about this one.
This slogan was launched at the time of the SARS outbreak.
I totally spaced on the SARS thing, so I guess I was sorta close as well. Makes sense, thanks for researching it a bit more, soul-sister. :D
urstwile
07-26-2008, 05:15 AM
I have a friend from Shanghai, well educated, but still professes the magical properties of certain animal parts of certain critters (endangered or not).
"My grandfather ate the _____ of a _____It made him STRONG!".
I also knew a French waiter (must have been 5th generation waiter, loved waiting on tables and up-selling) from Provence who often talked of missing horse.
"I love a horse a meat"
My mom and grandmother are from Belgium, they've eaten horse meat, when they were still over there.
Europeans tend to be a bit more pragmatic and less sentimental about most of their food sources, particularly when there's a war going on.
What part of Queens do you live in, Seamas? Have I asked you that before? Queens is a borough that I'm very unfamiliar with, I didn't have very many friends who lived there when I was living in NYC.