Honest An original cartoon series by CMCS Click on cartoon for larger picture.

Watch What You Say Coors put it's slogan "Turn it loose" into Spanish where it was read as "Suffer from Diarrhea" Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux." Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious porno magazine.

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 upon the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent "Ko-kou-ko-le" translating into "happiness in the mouth."

When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, it's ads were supposed to have read, "it won't leak in your pocket and embarass you." Instead, the company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) means to embarass, so the ad read "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant."

Don't ruffle my feathers by Collie Will

This original artwork was created during the aftermath of the September 11 th tradgedy by Collie Will, a native of up-state new York. Ms. Will graduated college in Utah and then migrated to Valdez, Alaska where she taught school for more than 20 years, Collie has also lived in Florida and spent two years touring and painting in Australia. Collie now lives on the Big Island of Hawaii and paints at the Art Center at Holualoa. Collie has had several pieces in juried art shows around the state of Hawaii and recently won first place in the watercolor division of a juried show.

We were curious about a frequently circulated list of curmudgeonly sayings attributed to a speech Bill Gates delivered at a high school. According to our highly placed sources (okay, we just clicked on snopes.com); "This list didn't originate with Microsoft head Bill Gates... Why it's attributed to Gates is a mystery to us... possibly, the item 'Be nice to nerds' struck a chord with someone who views Gates as the ultimate successful nerd of all time. This list is the work of Charles J. Sykes, author of the book, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, Or Add. (The list has appeared in newspapers, although not necessarily in this book)

Advice columnist Ann Landers printed the first ten items (uncredited) several times, and the list has been used by radio commentator Paul Harvey. The prize for misattribution, however, has to go to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, which printed the list twice in three weeks in mid-2000, the first time crediting it to 'Duluth state Rep. Brooks Coleman of Duluth' and the second time to Bill Gates.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $80,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answers. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own. Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

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