Turns out, the best drinking stories in history are actually, well, historical. So raise a glass to your forefathers and marvel at these tales. She is not moving that fast. This is what the waitress would look like if you drank everything on her tray.
1. Admiral Edward Russell’s 17th-Century throwdown
Think you can drink like a sailor? Maybe you should take a moment to reflect on what that truly means.
The record for history’s largest cocktail belongs to British Lord Admiral Edward Russell. In 1694, he threw an officer’s party that employed a garden’s fountain as the punch bowl.
The concoction? A mixture that included 250 gallons of brandy, 125 gallons of Malaga wine, 1,400 pounds of sugar, 2,500 lemons, 20 gallons of lime juice, and 5 pounds of nutmeg.
So I felt like gettin' a profile on myspace.com. And I learned my lesson. It's started with a mail:"Hi, I'm Kelly...can you send me your Email address so that i can mail you all about me and send you my pics?i will be waiting to hear back from you soon."
I thought, what the hell. I answered. Next mail came with the photos (pretty hot chick).
"How are u today? Good to hear back from you,i was born in Florida Ft Lauderdale....i must tell u am outta town at the moment...am in africa to buy some materials for my works and also to attend an exhibition..am an artist babey.....
We could get very familair with each other thru the mails while am away....hope ur not dissapointed am out of town now....i should be home in bout few days from now......i really wanna settle down with a man that will be real with me cos am not getting younger anymore...have gat so many bad relationship with guy that just want sex with me not true love i just need a real man to settle down with my ex-boyfriend took advantage of me,he sold my house and ran away with another woman that is why it hard for me to trust man ....i will be very happy if you can be the kind of man am looking for...
Let me just say a lil bout what i like.....I love all type of music, it ranges from salsa, merengue, r&b to classic music, it all depends on the mood. I'm
learning to play the piano which i hope i can make my way around soon, i won't promise to sing but i will play. I love poetry. I love small cozy places to
eat, i like a quite atmosphere which makes a conversation more pleasant, your attention will be totally with the person across the table..
My favorite food it's my mother's cooking but its so sad she is not around me anymore, love italian, sushi, i love paella, pasta, thai, a big juicy steak, hamburgers are great!
I wonder if these companies just Babelfished the slogans into another language. Never..trust...babelfish.
13) When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, "It won’t leak in your pocket and embarrass you." The company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: "It won’t leak in your pocket and make you pregnant."
12) Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: "Nothing Sucks like an Electrolux."
11) Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick," a curling iron, into Germany only to find out that "mist" is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the "Manure Stick."
13) When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, "It won’t leak in your pocket and embarrass you." The company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: "It won’t leak in your pocket and make you pregnant."
12) Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: "Nothing Sucks like an Electrolux."
11) Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick," a curling iron, into Germany only to find out that "mist" is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the "Manure Stick."
10) Coors put its slogan, "Turn It Loose," into Spanish, where it was read as "Suffer From Diarrhea."
9) Pepsi’s "Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation" translated into "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back From the Grave" in Chinese.
8) When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the US, with the smiling baby on the label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the labels of what’s inside, since many people can’t read.
7) Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious porno magazine.
6) Frank Perdue’s chicken slogan, "It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken," was translated into Spanish as "it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate."
5) When American Airlines wanted to advertise its new leather first class seats in the Mexican market, it translated its "Fly In Leather" campaign literally, which meant "Fly Naked" (vuela en cuero) in Spanish.
4) An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market which promoted the Pope’s visit. Instead of "I saw the Pope" (el Papa), the shirts read "I Saw the Potato" (la papa).
3) The Dairy Association’s huge success with the campaign "Got Milk?" prompted them to expand advertising to Mexico. It was soon brought to their attention the Spanish translation read "Are You Lactating?"
2) General Motors had a very famous fiasco in trying to market the Nova car in Central and South America. "No va" in Spanish means, "It Doesn’t Go".
1) The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Kekoukela", meaning "Bite the Wax Tadpole" or "Female Horse Stuffed with Wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent "kokoukole", translating into "Happiness in the Mouth."
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