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Only in Egypt...

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:30 am
by LivinginLuxor
Am I mellowing - two posts in the jokes section today!

Couldn't resist this though - from the Guardian

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Hey you! No smoking in Arabic! Can't you read? No prizes for working out what happened here. According to Sahil Anand, who first posted the photo to Facebook: "A contract company out here [in Egypt] was asked to stencil on the side of a fuel tanker: Diesel Fuel in Arabic and No Smoking in Arabic. This is what came back." If only we knew the Arabic word for "fail".

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:42 am
by DJKeefy
:bs: Love it :bs:

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:59 am
by Phantom
Brilliant :)

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:43 pm
by DIANA
Amazing, I love it :roll:

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:15 pm
by marvin-carrie
At least they can say they followed the instructons to the letter...:lol:

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:03 am
by DJKeefy
Google Fruit Shop

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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:00 pm
by TonyC
:lol: :lol: Hope that doesn't bring a law suit down on their heads! Remember how Harrods used to go after little shops that "stole" their name?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:16 am
by Brian Yare
But the owner of Harrods is Egyptian. So far as I am aware the owner of Google is not.

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:36 am
by FABlux
TonyC wrote::lol: :lol: Hope that doesn't bring a law suit down on their heads! Remember how Harrods used to go after little shops that "stole" their name?
Don't tell Tesco's about their name sake here or they will probably do the same :lol:

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:08 pm
by Kunis
Google shop.

I know I have seen that shop somwhere on the east bank, been puzzling over where

Would someone please tell me so I can put my poor memory to more productive use.


kunis

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:02 am
by LivinginLuxor
Or the Facebook shop! Or Dior and Diesel for that matter.

Re: Only in Egypt...

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:32 pm
by Miriamkhalifa
I want to see the images!

Re: Only in Egypt...

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:59 am
by Winged Isis
I have always been able to see Stan's photo, but only get a blue box and white question mark for yours, Keefy.

Re: Only in Egypt...

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:51 am
by Miriamkhalifa
NOW I see them ;) LOL!

Re: Only in Egypt...

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:00 am
by Winged Isis
I still cannot! :(

Re: Only in Egypt...

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:13 am
by DJKeefy
There is only 2 photos in this thread, so far, one by Stan in the first post then one by me, you could not see mine cause it had the old code, ive fixed it now :)

Re: Only in Egypt...

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:15 am
by Winged Isis
:up :thanks: Thunderbirds are go!

PS: Great photo! :lol2: