Fun with words: artery
Posts divertidos sobre linguagem, cultura e o dia a dia
Shown below, is an actual letter that was sent to a bank by an 86 year old woman. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the New York Times. Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for bouncing my check with which I endeavored to pay my plumber last… Read More
Some of these are translation fails – we can only hope that that Chinese food company isn’t selling shredded children. Others, like the British faggots in sauce, seem funny only because modern slang has re-appropriated their names. Some, like the Australian Gaytime ice cream, have even embraced their now-humorous names.
A makeover is a term applied to changing one’s appearance, sometimes through cosmetics. Makeovers can range from something as simple as a new haircut, to the use of cosmetic surgery, to the extreme of the implantation of dental veneers, eye-color-changing contact lenses, and the use of appearance-altering gastric bypass surgeries, providing massive, permanent fat loss in obese persons, and the associated plastic surgeries, such as abdominoplasty, to… Read More
Google Beta has just announced it is launching a revolutionary product called Google Nose. It will be possble from now on to feel the most varied scents through your cell phone. Here’s the official viceo release. For additional detials click here
18-year-old Artist Mads Madsen has an amazing skill for colorizing old black and white photographs. Even beside their original counterpart the results are impressive, bringing a new dimension of realism to historic images. An American Civil War buff, Madsen’s 450+ portfolio of images can be seen on minus.com. Madsen says it takes him about 20-30 minutes for a… Read More