Buick Car Naming Fubar
MonsieurEvil
Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
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<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Embarrassed GM to Rename Car with Risque Overtones
2 hours, 36 minutes ago Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
MAKUHARI, Japan (Reuters) - General Motors Corp will rename its Buick LaCrosse in Canada because the name for the car is slang for masturbation in Quebec, embarrassed officials with the U.S. automaker said Thursday.
GM officials, who declined to be named, said it had been unaware that LaCrosse was a term for self-gratification among teenagers in French-speaking Quebec.
GM officials in Canada are working on a new name for the car, a sedan that will go on sale next year to replace the Buick Regal.
The mix-up is reminiscent of another GM vehicle with an unfortunate name. In the 1970s, GM exported its Chevrolet Nova to Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries, only to be told that Nova translated into "doesn't go." Despite the name, and contrary to popular folklore, the car sold well.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I always knew people that played LaCrosse were a bunch of wankers... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Embarrassed GM to Rename Car with Risque Overtones
2 hours, 36 minutes ago Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
MAKUHARI, Japan (Reuters) - General Motors Corp will rename its Buick LaCrosse in Canada because the name for the car is slang for masturbation in Quebec, embarrassed officials with the U.S. automaker said Thursday.
GM officials, who declined to be named, said it had been unaware that LaCrosse was a term for self-gratification among teenagers in French-speaking Quebec.
GM officials in Canada are working on a new name for the car, a sedan that will go on sale next year to replace the Buick Regal.
The mix-up is reminiscent of another GM vehicle with an unfortunate name. In the 1970s, GM exported its Chevrolet Nova to Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries, only to be told that Nova translated into "doesn't go." Despite the name, and contrary to popular folklore, the car sold well.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I always knew people that played LaCrosse were a bunch of wankers... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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Next, Lawn Boy will name their new pull start mower "The One Eyed Monster" <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
now is not the time to make a witty comment about lacrosse
and we all know where monsE learned FUBAR.
This sort of thing always makes me laugh, like how they renamed "Jif" to "Cif" when it European because many euro countries have a soft "J" yet in English "cif" is pronounced "syph" which is of course a shortened version of "syphilis".
I CLEAN MY KITCHEN WITH SYPHILIS!
**** Spanish then. I don't care what it means in other languages.
Volkswagon's SUV... the Torig (or toreg)
also known as a nomadic tribe in africa that is known for "traveling far distances"... other cusoms include comunial place for male (and female) curcumscision.... not something i'de like to name my car after.
also f***ed up beyond all repair.