Today in bad translations

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This is actually a week or so old, but:

That’s a catering card that one assumes is supposed to be placed in front of a tray full of meatballs, but then somebody had the bright idea to translate the transliteration ميت بول, and lo and behold, if you translate it, you get “Paul is dead.” Unless Paul died making the meatballs, or Paul was killed for the meat (you gotta tell ’em! ميت بول is people!), this seems pretty unfortunate to me.

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  1. “I was the Walrus! Paul was never the Walrus! I was just saying that to be nice!”

    John Lennon

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