It's A Fact

Jun 29 2008

Advertising

"Come alive with the Pepsi generation," the Pepsi slogan, didn't adapt too well in China. It translates into Chinese as the ghostly "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave".

Bum is the name of a type of Turkish biscuit.

Donkee Baster Suker is Dutch sugar.

Even the most ambitious advertiser in strait-laced Victorian times was not brave enough to depict a bed in an ad - it was always hidden behind curtains.

Krapp is Scandinavian toilet paper.

The phrase "Often a bridesmaid but never a bride" was written for a 1924 Listerine mouthwash ad.

Nora Knackers are Norwegian biscuits.

The catchy slogan "naughty but nice" for cream cakes was coined by author Salman Rushdie.

The Chevrolet model Nova proved to be an unfortunate choice of name for a car and a bit of a joke in Mexico. In Spanish, "no va" means "won't go".