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       Monday, March 20, 2006

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Sometimes Spanish is NOT Correct

It sure is hard to win these days -- as VW found out:

"Volkswagen said Friday it will remove billboards in New York, Los Angeles and Miami after receiving complaints that a word used in an advertisement was offensive to Hispanics. The ad for the new GTI 2006 had a photo of the sports car accompanied by the words ''Turbo-Cojones.''

Cojones, which means testicles in Spanish, has become a casually used term for boldness or guts in English but has never lost its more vulgar connotations in its native language....

The billboards will be replaced with two ads, with one saying ''Here today, gone tamale'' and the other ''Kick a little gracias.''"

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Here's betting that the replacement billboards get into trouble too

(For more postings from me, see EDUCATION WATCH, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and DISSECTING LEFTISM. My Home Page. Email me (John Ray) here.)



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posted by JR at 6:10 AM  

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