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In article <86205@netnews.upenn.edu>,
crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
  > How about mangled English that isn't necessarily
  > part of a screwed up ad campaign?

To which:
    How about mangled English that isn't necessarily
    mangled in translation?

Hey, don't yell at me.  It wasn't my idea.


Dhanesh

PS:  Trust me -- there's _lots_ more where these came from.


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* From the land of John Bull:


    "I've been bitten by the ferocious tongue of Frank Rich."

                                - Michael Praed, BBC1 TV


    "... no one to stem the floodgates of hot air; there is now an
     avalanche of it."

                                - Carol Thatcher, TV-AM


    "Such an easy pitch... Graham Gooch and Alec Stewart think their 
     Christmases have all come home."

                                - Geoff Boycott, BBC1 TV


    "[Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those 
     double-handed wrists."

                                - Virginia Wade, BBC2 TV


    "There's nothing like seeing two protagonists having
     a nose-to-nose tete-a-tete."

                                - Richard Skinner, GLR


    "You're either very good or very bad.
     There's no in-between.  We were in-between."

                                - Gary Lineker, ITV


    "I thought he was going to dive and decapitate himself ... badly."

                                - Mike Hendrick, BBC


    "Bernstein, in the fastest dragster, lines up beside
     Eddie Hill in the quickest."

                                - Unidentified TV "commentator"


    "Ladies and gentlemen, please remain seated: we are not here yet."

                                - Aircraft crew member


    "He's obviously feeling confident as he is now playing the backspin
     with topspin."

                                - BBC "commentator" on Agassi's play



* From the New World:


    "He must put this dive in the water... "

                                - NBC Olympic commentator


    [Chicago Cubs player Steve Buechele has] "turned into a one-man
    wrecking ball."

                                - Some fool on CNN Sports


    +---------------------+
    | Toilet out of order |
    |  Please use corner  |
    |       __________    |
    |    __/   ______/    |
    |          __/        |
    |          _/         |
    |     _____/          |
    +---------------------+

                                - Sign in the Manchester (NH) Airport


    "NEW!  Oil-Free Oil of Olay"

                                - Newspaper advertisement


    "I don't think there is any way to overmaximize the impact of the 
     strike."

                                - Cristine Wagner, Conrail spokeswoman


    "Next Mobil [gasoline filling station] back three miles"

                                - Sign in front of a Mobil station under
                                  construction in Bedford, N.H.


    Oprah:                       So when did you first realise
                                 that the healing process
                                 wasn't working?
    Mother (of son who died):    When he died is when I first
                                 realised the healing process
                                 wasn't working.

                                - on the Oprah Winfrey show


    "I wouldn't call it normal, but it certainly isn't unusual."

                                - Gordon Wood,
                                  Professor of History,
                                  Brown University



* From the Land Down Under:


    "He was like King Canute, trying to hold back the floodgates."

                                - Malcolm Fraser,
                                  former Prime Minister of Australia,
                                  on the subject of
                                  Sir Robert Muldoon,
                                  former Prime Minister of New Zealand.


    "And this is the real carrot at the end of the rainbow."

                                - Paul Lyneham,
                                  ABC TV, Australia


And so on, ad nauseam.