Whilst flicking through the duty free magazine on my flight from Saigon I noticed this advert for an eau de toilette from Hermès.
It's perhaps not the name I would have chosen, but I suspect it was the easily trips off the tongue qualities that appealed to the copywriters. Anyway, between that, and the coffee brand's name, there was a bombardment of double entendres. Or I just have an overactive imagination when it comes to word play.
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What coffee brand name do you refer to? I get the roof garden reference.
If you read my previous post you should get it.
Well that certainly cheered me up this morning!
We aim to please. Hope you're OK!
It's good to know that it's not only Asian products that have ridiculous names (from an English vantage point).
Naughty .... but nice. Who said that? Tommy Cooper?
Parnassus - yes. You'd think with all the resources at their disposal Hermes might have considered whether it would translate well.
Blue - Dick Emery?
I actually picked up this eau de toilette at Charles De Gaulle airport. It is very light and fresh justv as the name indicates, a roof garden...
That's from Hermes??? Geez, what brilliant fashionista thought of that!
Francine - well, glad to hear it at least smells good!
Loi - one has to wonder. Presumably a rare one (with a sense of humour).
I presume it is supposed to translate "a garden on the roof". But having spent time in France - but far from a master of the language - am I showing my age or is "toit" still sometimes used as slang for a breast?
DC - yes literally "a garden on the roof", (which sounds strange in English), or "roof top garden". But why call a scent that? But, no toit, if one pronounced the last "t", which I know one doesn't in French, sounds like a slang word in English (twat) that refers to female genitalia.
Dick Emery - I'm in stitches here, I had forgotten all about him! Honestly everything I liked in Georgian Antiques was £20,000, everything hubs liked was £1000, I also like expensive things, it's a curse.
I'm wondering whether it was in fact Dick Emery, (he used... "you are awful, but I like you", with a nudge that knocked the recipient to the floor). Maybe it was Kenny Everett?
I'm amazed at Georgian Antiques' prices, (or perhaps less amazed at your expensive tastes). The thing that made me balk the last time (10 years ago) was a pair of Regency hall chairs, which were over 3000 quid. I did buy a pair of William IV chests of drawers, which are still of the Georgian simplicity that attracts me to that era of furniture, before his neice's eponymously named furniture style, which I loathe. And a very pretty and simple George III table, which was in our hall in Edinburgh, but now in an alcove here in Bangkok.
I had a Vietnamese client named Luong Phat Thang- We called him Luong ,pronounced Long
That is an interesting choice of words. I would almost prefer a soley made up name.
Thomas - one of my father's bosses was called Dick Large. I kid you not.
Mark - yes. Anything really.
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