Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/04/two-snaps-to-whoever-named-thi.html
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It beats the more obvious “Evil Humpday Cutie” for charm. Sometimes letting the Shenzhen office’s “English speaker” choose the names pays off.
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All these names sounds like something machine learning has come up with. Finally, we found a real use for it that’s not a human rights disaster.
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Looks more like “Vegan Coffee Shop Girl”.
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I’m guessing this is machine translation, although I’m trying to figure out how Wednesday would get translated out of English. Maybe Walmart ran the manufacturer’s product information through automated translation.
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I’m not convinced there isn’t just an employee of the company that knows the weirder the workaround, the more publicity it will garner.
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Better than the name Honest Trailers would have given it: “Costume that promotes inappropriate feelings towards minor”.
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The crossover fanfic of Star Wars and Karate Kid that you never knew you needed!?
Though it took me quite a while to realize Door Loader is… a knock off Dark Helmet maybe?
Plus that tiny print at the top “Galaxies are far, far away…” is so spot on.
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I don’t know, I just hope Ford Uno and Mandog beast can save Layla from Glutto the Slug.
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Pigeon-toed = evil?
Wednesday – Mittwoch – Midweek
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Really? An ordinary dress on a pre-teen body with exposed knee caps promotes inappropriate feelings towards minors?
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Hey, Amerika is currently living in a New Victorian/Puritan age, so entirely correct by that standard
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They will, they save her a the Galactic regional sparring conference.
Oh, sorry, spoilers.
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Technically Frauenfeldered:
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Though “Wodenstag” used to be perfectly cromulent German. I blame the Christians.
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When the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic books exploded in popularity in the 80s, there was a short-lived fad of making parodies whose titles were mangled in a similar fashion. “Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos” (ran for three issues) and “Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters” come to mind: there may have been others.
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