From the book The Lexus and the Olive Tree:
Pepsi's "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" was translated into Chinese as "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave."
Frank Perdue's chicken slogan "It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken" was translated into Spanish as "It takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate."
The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Ke-kou-ke-la," meaning "Bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with wax," depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent, "ko-kou-ko-le," translating into "happiness in the mouth."
When the Parker Pen people marketed a ballpoint pen in Mexico, the ads were supposed to have read, "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you." Instead mistranslation resulted in the ad reading, "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant."
-from a list of Ten Great Global Marketing Mistakes, published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 19, 1998
Thanks Mark! :)
Thursday, December 04, 2003
Friday, November 28, 2003
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Just in time for Thanksgiving Day.....
SEDGEFIELD, England, Nov 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday Turkey was now a battleground in the war on global terrorism and offered U.S. help following a wave of suicide bombings in Istanbul.
"Terrorists have decided to use Turkey as a front," Bush told reporters as he toured a sports school during a trip to British Prime Minister Tony Blair's home district, his last stop on a state visit to England.
Next week's headline: Bush gets speech mixed up with Whitehouse dinner menu
SEDGEFIELD, England, Nov 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday Turkey was now a battleground in the war on global terrorism and offered U.S. help following a wave of suicide bombings in Istanbul.
"Terrorists have decided to use Turkey as a front," Bush told reporters as he toured a sports school during a trip to British Prime Minister Tony Blair's home district, his last stop on a state visit to England.
Next week's headline: Bush gets speech mixed up with Whitehouse dinner menu
Monday, November 24, 2003
My dreams mock me...
No, this dream isn't about the future, but it's just as weird.
I dreamt i was reciting the precise definition of profit-a-prendre. It's some legal term.
I had no recollection of ever learning this term, but i suppose at one point i must have read it, since when i woke up i was curious and looked up "profit-a-prendre" and found that the definition was precisely what i had recited in my dream!
I found this out right when i woke up. As i went on with my day i found that i could no longer remember even how to spell profit-a-prendre....this leads me to believe that subconsciously, i know much more than i do when i am awake. this is kind of disturbing.
why can't i remember these things when i need to? is it the stress? is the large cold sore on my chin sapping me of my legal knowledge? why IS there a cold sore on my chin? will it spread? is it contagious? eek!
i am degenerating into a festering sore, devoid of all knowledge of legal terminology.
No, this dream isn't about the future, but it's just as weird.
I dreamt i was reciting the precise definition of profit-a-prendre. It's some legal term.
I had no recollection of ever learning this term, but i suppose at one point i must have read it, since when i woke up i was curious and looked up "profit-a-prendre" and found that the definition was precisely what i had recited in my dream!
I found this out right when i woke up. As i went on with my day i found that i could no longer remember even how to spell profit-a-prendre....this leads me to believe that subconsciously, i know much more than i do when i am awake. this is kind of disturbing.
why can't i remember these things when i need to? is it the stress? is the large cold sore on my chin sapping me of my legal knowledge? why IS there a cold sore on my chin? will it spread? is it contagious? eek!
i am degenerating into a festering sore, devoid of all knowledge of legal terminology.
Friday, November 21, 2003
Thursday, November 20, 2003
I especially love that the prosecutor's name is Popov....
Man Dies After Winning Vodka-Drinking Contest
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A vodka-drinking competition in a southern Russian town ended in tragedy with the winner dead and several runners-up in intensive care.
"The competition lasted 30, perhaps 40 minutes and the winner downed three half-liter bottles. He was taken home by taxi but died within 20 minutes," said Roman Popov, a prosecutor pursuing the case in the town of Volgodonsk.
"Five contestants ended up in intensive care. Those not in hospital turned up the next day, ostensibly for another drink."
Popov said the director of the shop organizing this month's contest had been charged with manslaughter. He had offered 10 liters of vodka to the competitor drinking the most in the shortest time.
Russians drink the equivalent of 15 liters of pure alcohol per head annually, one of the highest rates in the world. Some experts estimate one in seven Russians is an alcoholic.
Man Dies After Winning Vodka-Drinking Contest
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A vodka-drinking competition in a southern Russian town ended in tragedy with the winner dead and several runners-up in intensive care.
"The competition lasted 30, perhaps 40 minutes and the winner downed three half-liter bottles. He was taken home by taxi but died within 20 minutes," said Roman Popov, a prosecutor pursuing the case in the town of Volgodonsk.
"Five contestants ended up in intensive care. Those not in hospital turned up the next day, ostensibly for another drink."
Popov said the director of the shop organizing this month's contest had been charged with manslaughter. He had offered 10 liters of vodka to the competitor drinking the most in the shortest time.
Russians drink the equivalent of 15 liters of pure alcohol per head annually, one of the highest rates in the world. Some experts estimate one in seven Russians is an alcoholic.
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Some of the demands Bush's security detail made for his recent visit to England:
In the name of Bush's safety, the Secret Service requested that the London Underground, the provider of transportation to millions daily, be closed down. American snipers and special agents traveling with Bush were to be given diplomatic immunity in the event that they should kill any of the expected 100,000 protesters. An artillery weapon called the "mini gun," normally used in battlefield conditions, was to be flown in in case it was deemed necessary to mow down protesters en masse. Vast sections of the city were to be closed to all traffic, forcing the closure of untold hundreds of businesses. Americans were to be placed in charge of all security operations, ahead of the British Scotland Yard, the MI5, the Metropolitan police, and Blair's own security detail. And U.S. fighter jets and Blackhawk attack helicopters, armed with surface-to-ground missiles and high-powered machine guns, were to secure the skies over London. All of this in addition to flying in not only Bush's own presidential limousine, but in fact his own motorcade. No foreign cars for our President – only a custom-imported procession of Humvees would do.
Excerpted from Alternet. click here for full article
In the name of Bush's safety, the Secret Service requested that the London Underground, the provider of transportation to millions daily, be closed down. American snipers and special agents traveling with Bush were to be given diplomatic immunity in the event that they should kill any of the expected 100,000 protesters. An artillery weapon called the "mini gun," normally used in battlefield conditions, was to be flown in in case it was deemed necessary to mow down protesters en masse. Vast sections of the city were to be closed to all traffic, forcing the closure of untold hundreds of businesses. Americans were to be placed in charge of all security operations, ahead of the British Scotland Yard, the MI5, the Metropolitan police, and Blair's own security detail. And U.S. fighter jets and Blackhawk attack helicopters, armed with surface-to-ground missiles and high-powered machine guns, were to secure the skies over London. All of this in addition to flying in not only Bush's own presidential limousine, but in fact his own motorcade. No foreign cars for our President – only a custom-imported procession of Humvees would do.
Excerpted from Alternet. click here for full article
Monday, November 17, 2003
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
What health insurance?
I am one of 43.6 million Americans who do not have health insurance. I cannot possibly afford it, given my paltry student loans, and my previous employer's COBRA would cost me $350 a month (my CAR PAYMENT is $344 a month).
18,000 Americans will die prematurely this year due to lack of healthcare.
The United States is the only industrialized country without some form of universal healthcare for its citizens.
Most of the 43 million are working adults. 12 million of them have children.
Congress just passed an $87 BILLION package for the continued occupation of Iran and Afghanistan. That's enough to pay every single uninsured American $2023.25.
Sometimes I wish I lived in France.
I am one of 43.6 million Americans who do not have health insurance. I cannot possibly afford it, given my paltry student loans, and my previous employer's COBRA would cost me $350 a month (my CAR PAYMENT is $344 a month).
18,000 Americans will die prematurely this year due to lack of healthcare.
The United States is the only industrialized country without some form of universal healthcare for its citizens.
Most of the 43 million are working adults. 12 million of them have children.
Congress just passed an $87 BILLION package for the continued occupation of Iran and Afghanistan. That's enough to pay every single uninsured American $2023.25.
Sometimes I wish I lived in France.
Monday, November 10, 2003
Friday, November 07, 2003
Monday, November 03, 2003
Summer Dreams
It's not even winter, and I'm already dreaming of summer...
This summer looks very prominsing indeed. I will be studying abroad, but where oh where should I go? Here are my options:
1. Summer At Sea with Pitt Law: A 2-month cruise on a ship-turned-classroom. Ports of call: Vancouver, Canada ·Sitka, US (Alaska) ·Vladivoskok, Russia · Pusan, Korea ·Shanghai, P.R.C. ·Haiphong (Hanoi), Vietnam ·Keelung, Taiwan · Osaka, Japan · Seattle, US. Price: $6,000.00, includes cruise, classes, 6 units of law school credit, and food. Considering that my school charges $1000 a unit, this program costs exactly the same as if I were to sit on my ass in San Diego and take boring summer school. Factoring in transportation and spending money, this trip will probably cost $10,000.
2. Santa Clara Law Study Abroad in Hong Kong: Another 2 month program. This one offers one month of law study in Hong Kong and a one month internship in an HK or Singapore firm. 7 units of credit. Will cost around $10,000 also. The advantage of this program is that I'll be able to spend more time in one place, and get practical work experience. Also, if I go to HK, I plan on taking time before or after to tour Asia, so I'll still end up seeing different cities.
3. If all else fails, I can always go with my school to Florence and Dublin. 2 months, 9-12 units, counts toward my GPA, but costs $16,000.
Choices, choices....
It's not even winter, and I'm already dreaming of summer...
This summer looks very prominsing indeed. I will be studying abroad, but where oh where should I go? Here are my options:
1. Summer At Sea with Pitt Law: A 2-month cruise on a ship-turned-classroom. Ports of call: Vancouver, Canada ·Sitka, US (Alaska) ·Vladivoskok, Russia · Pusan, Korea ·Shanghai, P.R.C. ·Haiphong (Hanoi), Vietnam ·Keelung, Taiwan · Osaka, Japan · Seattle, US. Price: $6,000.00, includes cruise, classes, 6 units of law school credit, and food. Considering that my school charges $1000 a unit, this program costs exactly the same as if I were to sit on my ass in San Diego and take boring summer school. Factoring in transportation and spending money, this trip will probably cost $10,000.
2. Santa Clara Law Study Abroad in Hong Kong: Another 2 month program. This one offers one month of law study in Hong Kong and a one month internship in an HK or Singapore firm. 7 units of credit. Will cost around $10,000 also. The advantage of this program is that I'll be able to spend more time in one place, and get practical work experience. Also, if I go to HK, I plan on taking time before or after to tour Asia, so I'll still end up seeing different cities.
3. If all else fails, I can always go with my school to Florence and Dublin. 2 months, 9-12 units, counts toward my GPA, but costs $16,000.
Choices, choices....
Your Sexual Power Animal is a Penguin!
Choosy, selective, and monogamous.
Not only are you picky when it comes to sex.
You tend to stick with the same partner for a long time
And since you're so picky, it takes a lot to get you
Once you're impressed, then you'll put out
What's Your Sexual Power Animal?
More Great Quizzes from Quiz Diva
Thursday, October 30, 2003
Drunkenness and Debauchery
It's the day before Halloween, yet I have already run around fucked up out of my mind, in a naughty schoolgirl outfit, twice. I do not plan to dress up tomorrow, lest someone remember me by my uncharacteristically outrageous behavior last weekend. It's all a little hazy, but I think that this weekend, I:
1. Bit the large fake boob of a large guy dressed in drag (also as a naughty schoolgirl)
2. Kissed someone....this someone being female...this kiss having been caught, twice, on camera
3. Slapped the naked butt of a man dressed only in a skimpy loincloth and thong (also caught on camera)
4. Ran around the SD sports arena with my shirt completely unbuttoned
5. Was dropped by drunken Tim from a height of almost six feet, then body-slammed as he toppled onto me
In conclusion, I think I have pre-partied enough for Halloween, and predict an evening of demureness and witty, non-drunken conversation tomorrow.
Oh, who am I kidding. Look out for the drunken schoolgirl.
It's the day before Halloween, yet I have already run around fucked up out of my mind, in a naughty schoolgirl outfit, twice. I do not plan to dress up tomorrow, lest someone remember me by my uncharacteristically outrageous behavior last weekend. It's all a little hazy, but I think that this weekend, I:
1. Bit the large fake boob of a large guy dressed in drag (also as a naughty schoolgirl)
2. Kissed someone....this someone being female...this kiss having been caught, twice, on camera
3. Slapped the naked butt of a man dressed only in a skimpy loincloth and thong (also caught on camera)
4. Ran around the SD sports arena with my shirt completely unbuttoned
5. Was dropped by drunken Tim from a height of almost six feet, then body-slammed as he toppled onto me
In conclusion, I think I have pre-partied enough for Halloween, and predict an evening of demureness and witty, non-drunken conversation tomorrow.
Oh, who am I kidding. Look out for the drunken schoolgirl.
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Thou shalt not annoy the hell out of thy neighbor
Sometimes when I type in the address to my blog wrong (when I input “blogpsot” instead of “blogspot”), I am taken to “Aaron’s Bible,” a mega-site of fundamentalist Christian material. It’s invasive and rude, and very unwelcome. Does this happen to anyone else? How low of them…the site even has pop-ups telling me to change my homepage to theirs!
Well, their underhanded tactics have worked to some degree…I was reading through the site today. You know what really irks me? When people lament that the world is descending into a moral abyss, and that our sexual morals are getting worse and worse as time goes by.
News flash, you tunnel-vision nincompoops: humans have been a depraved, sexually deviant, promiscuous lot from the beginning. Just read Petronius’s The Satyricon (written during Roman times...the time of Christ) or any of the works of the Marquis de Sade (17th & 18th century pervert). Socrates was gay. The Bible itself is full of stories of lust and adultery.
IMHO, one cannot blame the bad things that happen in life on something as ambiguous as “declining morality.” I think, rather, we as a society have an increasing sense of prudishness.
Aaron’s Bible says that declining sexual morals proves that a Biblical prophecy has been fulfilled—more proof that the world will indeed end very soon and we should all mark Aaron’s Bible as our homepage.
I should learn how to type more accurately.
Sometimes when I type in the address to my blog wrong (when I input “blogpsot” instead of “blogspot”), I am taken to “Aaron’s Bible,” a mega-site of fundamentalist Christian material. It’s invasive and rude, and very unwelcome. Does this happen to anyone else? How low of them…the site even has pop-ups telling me to change my homepage to theirs!
Well, their underhanded tactics have worked to some degree…I was reading through the site today. You know what really irks me? When people lament that the world is descending into a moral abyss, and that our sexual morals are getting worse and worse as time goes by.
News flash, you tunnel-vision nincompoops: humans have been a depraved, sexually deviant, promiscuous lot from the beginning. Just read Petronius’s The Satyricon (written during Roman times...the time of Christ) or any of the works of the Marquis de Sade (17th & 18th century pervert). Socrates was gay. The Bible itself is full of stories of lust and adultery.
IMHO, one cannot blame the bad things that happen in life on something as ambiguous as “declining morality.” I think, rather, we as a society have an increasing sense of prudishness.
Aaron’s Bible says that declining sexual morals proves that a Biblical prophecy has been fulfilled—more proof that the world will indeed end very soon and we should all mark Aaron’s Bible as our homepage.
I should learn how to type more accurately.
Monday, October 13, 2003
Sunday, October 05, 2003
Thursday, September 25, 2003
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
My job at the library circulation desk is pretty boring...but pretty funny. All I have to say is, watch out, people, cuz librarians talk SHIT. I was rifling through a pile of papers on the front desk today and found, hidden in plain sight, a list of stupid things people have asked the reference librarian. Talk about bitter....
Sunday, September 21, 2003
Each year, Project Censored lists the top 25 underreported news stories...
Click:
Project Censored - Home
I was especially surprised by #1. I never even new the PNAC existed before today. Very scary.
Click:
Project Censored - Home
I was especially surprised by #1. I never even new the PNAC existed before today. Very scary.
Monday, September 15, 2003
LOL
I just received this notice from the Southwest Center for Asian Pacific American Law regarding internships. I cut and pasted it...this is a direct quote:
Worker’s Rights (WR) Program
This WR Program will educate high students who are or will be wage earners about their rights in the work place...
I just received this notice from the Southwest Center for Asian Pacific American Law regarding internships. I cut and pasted it...this is a direct quote:
Worker’s Rights (WR) Program
This WR Program will educate high students who are or will be wage earners about their rights in the work place...
Thursday, September 04, 2003
Moore v. Regents of University of California
Supreme Court of California (1991)
This really sucks:
Moore goes to UCLA medical center to seek treatment for hairy-call leukemia, and the doctors tell him that he needs to have his spleen removed or he will die. Moore agrees, and they remove his spleen. What the doctors don't tell Moore is that his cells are unique and worth a LOT of money.
So, Moore undergoes seven years of follow-up procedures and testing, giving additional tissue samples, believing that all this is important to his treatment. UCLA ends up isolating a cell line from Moore's cells, patents the cell line, receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding. The cell line has a projected worth in the billions of dollars.
Of course Moore sues. The case goes all the way to the Supreme Court of California. And guess what? They ruled that Moore could not sue for conversion of property. He could not reap any benefits from the cell line that UCLA had profited from. But he could sue for breach of fiduciary duty...but that is hard to prove and it still doesn't mean he gets any of the profits.
Sometimes, the cases I study are so unfair.
Supreme Court of California (1991)
This really sucks:
Moore goes to UCLA medical center to seek treatment for hairy-call leukemia, and the doctors tell him that he needs to have his spleen removed or he will die. Moore agrees, and they remove his spleen. What the doctors don't tell Moore is that his cells are unique and worth a LOT of money.
So, Moore undergoes seven years of follow-up procedures and testing, giving additional tissue samples, believing that all this is important to his treatment. UCLA ends up isolating a cell line from Moore's cells, patents the cell line, receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding. The cell line has a projected worth in the billions of dollars.
Of course Moore sues. The case goes all the way to the Supreme Court of California. And guess what? They ruled that Moore could not sue for conversion of property. He could not reap any benefits from the cell line that UCLA had profited from. But he could sue for breach of fiduciary duty...but that is hard to prove and it still doesn't mean he gets any of the profits.
Sometimes, the cases I study are so unfair.
Guerilla Warfare
hey guys, go to www.onetermpresident.org and download fliers and stencils. i am planning on posting the fliers on campus. how about a synchronized campaign?
hey guys, go to www.onetermpresident.org and download fliers and stencils. i am planning on posting the fliers on campus. how about a synchronized campaign?
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