"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Oops nearly forgot-Milburn Drysdale as re imagined by Will Ferrell .:).

Car names are a minefield of hilarity-particularly when the Asian manufacturers employ spell check instead of native English speakers to come up with names for their latest models.
Here are a few real examples and they leave asking "why?"
Nissan Homy Super Long (whaddever mate)
Isuzu Mysterious Utility Wizard (GANDALF rego plates a must)
Honda Life Dunk (mmmm sounds safe doesn't it?)
Volugrafo Bimbo (only if you bought one)
Tang Hua Detroit Fish (sounds dirty rather than semi amphibious for some reason)
Isuzu Giga 20 Light Dump( yeah yeah it's a small dump truck but really)
Mitsubishi Lettuce(boooorinnng)

Mazda Titan Dump( another dump truck -they just left out the word truck didn't they?)
and not to be left out of the race
The Ford Probe(sounds painful)
 
r redden said:
I went to what we called junior high school (now it's called middle school) with a guy from some other country don't know which one but his name was Pimento Rhump (pronounced rump) we called him Cheese A--.
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I wonder if the emotional scarring caused him to become a criminal mastermind -bent on destroying the worlds cheese industry.
 
The king of them all is probably the Mitsubishi Pajero -Spanish for he who fiddles with himself- I don't seriously understand how they thought this would be a good name for a car.
Australia does not have the same size Spanish community as many other countriesand so no body really knew until the owned one for a while-then what do you do?
In Britain the same car was badged as the Shogun.
I can only imagine that the Mitsibishi car namers sent their agents to the land of OZ and whilst driving around they heard the word W****R ! being yelled out of car windows so many times that they thought it was how people greeted each other -or something. I assure that is not the case.
 
I can imagine native speakers of other other languages are equally amused at some English language terms which do not translate very well. A few examples, the response "whatever", metrosexual, cheesy, tacky, not to mention a bunch of English idioms which would be nonsense in another language.

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The word 'gift' means poison in German. Imagine what German speakers must think of the frequent 'gifting' going on here.
 
Vinifera said:
I can imagine native speakers of other other languages are equally amused at some English language terms which do not translate very well. A few examples, the response "whatever", metrosexual, cheesy, tacky, not to mention a bunch of English idioms which would be nonsense in another language.

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How very true.
Not to mention English dialects contained within the English language that are virtually incomprehensible to other English speakers. Very interesting stuff I think.:thumbup:
 
That is true! well, because we used to be a british colony, we have just adapted various english words into the language. So mind you, hong kong chinese is slightly different then regular Mandarin or Cantonese. English words are just warped and said in a way to roll with the language.
 
As far as child naming goes, I dodged a bullet there. My maternal grandfather was named Millard, which also happened to be the middle name of my paternal grandfather. Apparently a once more common name than now (US president Millard Fillmore being another example). So that was close to being my first name. I can envision the hell that middle and high school would have been with a nickname of "Millie" to deal with, or perhaps they would have latched onto the "lard" part of it.
 
Lol...at least those are funny. What I find baffling are those parents who give their girls first names that are surnames. Names like Taylor, Delaney, Riley, Kennedy -- all names that I've heard recently at parks, parties, and pools. Whatever happened to Jenny or Katie or Nicole?

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kamagong said:
Lol...at least those are funny. What I find baffling are those parents who give their girls first names that are surnames. Names like Taylor, Delaney, Riley, Kennedy -- all names that I've heard recently at parks, parties, and pools. Whatever happened to Jenny or Katie or Nicole?

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i suppose those are better than celebrity baby names, like Blue Ivy :confused:
 
Back on the Porch, finally :)
Names...well that's a topic I'm often amused at. I was lucky that my mother avoided me any of my grandfathers' names...so Paul I feel for you :p
I assume there's nothing wrong about names that translate (or sound like) funny or vulgar words in another language. I guess it happens more often that we imagine...although I can't say I ever asked about my name in more than a dozen languages.
Celebrity baby names can be awful...especially when they're paired with family names that have nothing to share. I work in a surgery room and every time a C Section comes in, people always ask for the name of the newborn. Sometimes I wish no one asked. I once witnessed the birht of a child who was named Michael Ray (after Michael Jackson and Ray Charles, as the mother proudly explained) paired with the uttermost Sardinian surname. It sounded absolutely awful (and somehow almost a joke).
Yet, I assume most of us are unaware that in huge parts of the globe (most Latin America, for example) people are actually allowed to invent any sort of name for their newborn. I could call my son Knarfeng for example. Why not? :D

Fausto
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When we had our first born, I told my better half, Karen, I want a super neutral name that inno way could be the brunt of any jokes. So our first born was named john. A good all around male name of a sort of anonymous sound.

Our second child, a daughter, was named after Karen's favorite Aunt, Jessica. Again pretty normal. Jess for short, and easy to deal with.

Our third and last was a wild card. Karen was sort of ambivalent, being tied with various family members for naming after, and I put out Matthew. Karen's father thought it was a wonderful biblical name and was all for it, as well as a very religious Aunt. So we went with Matt. I never let on until years later that my bias towards the name was from my years of watching Gunsmoke, and growing up with Matt Dillion keeping the peace in Dodge. It was the hight of Irony that our son Matt became a career police officer.

The day that Matt graduated from Police Academy, and we the proud parents were watching from the audience, Karen leaned over to me and in a whisper said, "Be careful what you wish for!"

To this day, with all the bad publicity involving law enforcement, Karen still reminds me, "Well, you're the one who had to name him after you're favorite TV Marshall!"

It's all in the name!
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When I was in high school, I had a friend who's mom was a secretary at an elementary school. She always had the best unfortunate kid's names to share. A few of my favorites were a set of twins named (no joke) China Cat and Steppenwolf, and a girl whose family's last name was Leer, so parent decided to name her Crystal Shanda. :rolleyes:
 
Barrett,
congrats for the new family member :)
Crystal Shanda Leer does not surprise me the least. I've heard even worse. A few years ago I met a man in my adoptive homeland in south America. His name sounded weird in Spanish but at the time I didn't pay much attention to it.
Later I found out that the sound of his name was just the Spanish pronounciation of the name Onedollar :rolleyes:

Fausto
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meako said:
The Beverly Hillbillies was a show ahead of its time-It was on in the afternoons after school before Dr who and the Goodies.
Put into todays world and you would find the following-
Jed Clampett-a wise outdoorsman with a homespun philosophy that was impervious to the greedy machinations of
Milburn Drysdale-the Beverly Hills bank manager up to his neck in stress over how to stop the Clampetts taking their money out of the bank-he knew no shame or sense of moral degradation in the cause.
Granny Clampett- a no nonsense wise woman with a raft of herbal folk remedies to cure any ill no matter how agonising the cure.
Jethro Bodean -highly motivated by his entry into the modern world and willing to float even the stupidest ideas as the next big thing -today he would be a dotcom billionaire.
Ellie May Clampett-the rose among the thorns -her feet planted firmly on commonsense and an equal to Jed on matters of judgement. She also had an affinity with animals an early dog whisperer of sorts.
Jane Hathaway-diligent ,much put upon by the idiotic ventures of "the chief" Drysdale and his lunatic schemes. She was pivotal to the running of the bank and he knew it.

Now who knows the rude schoolboy version of the theme song?
If god forbid they do a remake and what else do they seem to do nowdays?
John Cusack as Jed
Meryl Streep as Granny
Chris Hemsworth -Jethro
Gwyneth Paltrow -Hathaway
Sophie Turner as Ellie May ?
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A brief aside; I tuned into an early season #1 episode (youtube) of the Beverly Hillbillies, and in it there is a homey scene of all the Clampetts and cousin Bodean, sitting around, whittling away with their pocket knives!! Warms the cockles of my heart!!
 
Ah, the good old days. When men were men and boys were expected to grow into such.

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Ju Ju is BEAUTIFUL Jeff, funds sent and in regards to the knife, please list in the traditional sales form and please apply the money raised from it to Ju Ju' s tricycle purchase:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
Happy Saturday, everyone. I have a question for the folks who have been here a lot longer than I. How did the Traditional Folders and Fixed Blades sub-forum come to be known as The Porch?

The name fits perfectly, both for the subject matter and the good-natured exchange of stories and wisdom found here. I'm very curious to learn more about its origin.
 
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