I really have no idea why this bumper sticker says what it says, but it still amused me.
On the back of a large pick-up, just beneath the gun rack, driving along Ipanema beach last night.......
"Someone who likes small cars is a female dentist".
(quem gosta de carros pequenos é um dentista)
If anybody has any idea why this would be so, I'd be interested.
M.
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Maybe "um dentista" has another meaning, along the lines of "big girl's blouse"??
I saw a car sticker recently that said "I brake for penguins". In suburban London, that struck me as a bit odd.
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> Maybe "um dentista" has another meaning,
Other than the fact that I should have written "uma", you may have a point. I'll ask around.
M.
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Having wandered around the office, and taken some abuse, the general conclusion is that there is no known secondary meaning, and despite one other person having seen it, nobody knows what it means or why it might be funny.
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Which reminds me of a cruel joke from borstal ... I mean boarding school.
Man goes into a shop and asks for a loaf of brown bread.
Shopkeeper: "we only have white left Sir" .
Man: "Don't worry I've got my bike outside".
Not funny at all, the scam was that anyone who laughed was thrashed by the in-crowd for sucking up/pretending to 'get' the joke.
Oh happy days.
Looking forward to hearing what M(B)s sticker is all about.
(Not 'motoring' but there was a bike in there somewhere.)
I'm going to regret clicking the 'post' butto..........
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Mark, if anyone should know then your office should, but could the play on words be on 'carros'?
What's Portuguese for dental cavity? (thinking 'carie' in French)
But to be funny it would have to have yet another meaning (triple entendre?) to link in the dentist being female...
Back to the drawing board
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> What's Portuguese for dental cavity? (thinking 'carie' in French)
Sadly, its "cavidade do dente"
I can see I am going to be driving up and down Ipanema tonight looking for the truck just to ask the driver.
M.
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Why not just ask a female dentist?
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> Why not just ask a female dentist?
Oh, and what a great time that would be to find out its some horrendously disparaging insult !!
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I'd rather annoy a female dentist than a man in a pick-up with a gun rack, Mark! :)
Just I wouldn't go back to her for root canal work afterwards ...
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"Ah, Mark, this won't hurt one bit".
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Mark,
I have this real bad feeling that you will find the clever meaning of this, and then'll be worried you posted it here.
Just don't stress Martyn with telling us when you do.
David
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David W wrote:
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> Mark,
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> I have this real bad feeling that you will find the clever
> meaning of this, and then'll be worried you posted it here.
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> Just don't stress Martyn with telling us when you do.
But I can't wait to hear!
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Remember the Ford ad-line 'everything we do is driven by you'? We have a septic tank emptying wagon round here with the sticker 'everything you do is driven by us' cheers!
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I'll risk a thrashing, Brill. I found your bread joke quite funny. Oldepharte
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On a car, in USA, being driven by a woman: " I have PMS and a handgun - any questions?"
On a car which SHOULD have belonged to my mother-in-law: "Galileo got it wrong; The Universe Revolves Around ME !!!"
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