[lbo-talk] tasteless ad parody

Jon Johanning zenner41 at mac.com
Mon Jan 31 08:04:39 PST 2005


On Jan 30, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Leigh Meyers quoted a bit in the usual droll machine-translation style:


> The Volkswagen company refunded charge because of a falsified
> publicity film, which circulates in the InterNet. In the
> 20-Sekunden-Spot the tried bomb attack of a looking Arab Polo driver
> is shown - blows up itself into air, but its car remains completely.

More idiomatically: Volkswagen has filed a complaint about a parody commercial circulating on the Internet. The 20-second spot shows an attempted bombing by an Arab-looking Polo driver; the driver blows up, but the car is completely unharmed.

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________ A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.' -- Sir Arnold Bax



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