Coke Jokes / Recent Jokes
theres three guys One Mexican, one Chinese and one cowboy. the Mexican walked into a bar and ordered a coke. He got his coke and sat down, he took a sip and spit it out this taste like sh*t he said. He went 2 the bartender and said wats in this sh*t homes. The bartender said me Chinese me play joke me go pee-pee in your coke! the Mexican said eww and walked out. Then the Chinese guy came in and got a coke took a drink and said this tastes like piss so he went 2 the bartender. The bartender said me Chinese me play joke me go pee-pee in your coke! The Chinese guy walked out. The cowboy did the same thing and when The bartender said me Chinese me play joke me go pee-pee in your coke, the cowboy said Me cowboy me run fast, me shoot bullets up your ass!
Below are fine examples of what happens when marketing translations fail to reach a foreign country in an understandable way. Coors put its slogan, "Turn it loose," into Spanish, where it was read as "Suffer from diarrhea." Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick," a curling iron, into German 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. The American slogan for Salem cigarettes, "Salem-Feeling Free", was translated into the Japanese market as "When smoking Salem, you will feel so refreshed that your mind seems to be free and empty." When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the US, with the beautiful baby on the label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the label of more...
There was a beautiful young blonde at a soda machine in Vegas, and she arrived there just before a business man coming to quench his thirst.
She opened her purse and put in 50 cents, studied the machine a short while, pushed a Diet Coke selection, and out came a Diet Coke. She placed it on a counter next to the machine.
Then she reached in her purse again and pulled out a dollar and inserted it in the machine. Studying the machine carefully, she pushed the button for Coke Classic and out came a Coke Classic and 50 cents change.
She immediately took the 50 cents and put it in the machine, studied it for a moment and pushed the Mountain Dew button. Out came a Mountain Dew. She placed them both on the counter next to the Diet Coke.
As she was reaching into her purse again, the business man, who'd been waiting patiently for several minutes by then, spoke up. "Excuse me, miss, but are you done yet?"
She looked at him and more...
It was a really hot day and this blonde decided she would go buy a coke. So she went to the coke machine and put her money in, and a coke came out so she kept putting money in it, and since it was a hot day a line had formed behind her.Finally the man behind her said, ''Will you hurry up we're all hot and thirsty!" And the blonde turned around and said, ''No way. I'm still winning."
A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender: "Can I have a hot rag for my nose?"
The bartender says "yes, but why do you need that for your nose?"
The man answers "Well, a couple of seconds ago I tried to sniff coke, but and ice cube got stuck up my nose."
Cracking an international market is a goal of most growing corporations. It shouldn't be that hard, yet even the big multi-nationals run into trouble because of language and cultural differences. For example... The name Coca-Cola in China was first rendered as Ke-kou-ke-la. Unfortunately, the Coke company did not discover until after thousands of signs had been printed that the phrase means "bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with wax" depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40, 000 Chinese characters and found a close phonetic equivalent, "ko-kou-ko-le," which can be loosely translated as "happiness in the mouth." In Taiwan, the translation of the Pepsi slogan "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" came out as "Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead." Also in Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan "finger-lickin' good" came out as "eat your fingers off." The American more...
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