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Slackerous Maximus
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Columbus, OH
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Turbo-Cojones
Volkswagen Removes Billboards From 3 Cities After Complaints
POSTED: 12:06 am EST March 18, 2006 MIAMI -- Volkswagen said Friday it will remove billboards in New York, Los Angeles and Miami after receiving complaints that a word used in an advertisement was offensive to Hispanics. The ad for the new GTI 2006 had a photo of the sports car accompanied by the words "Turbo-Cojones." Cojones, which means testicles in Spanish, has become a casually used term for boldness or guts in English but has never lost its more vulgar connotations in its native language. A billboard in the Miami neighborhood of Little Havana generated complaints, and the company decided to remove it Wednesday, said Steve Keyes, a Volkswagen spokesman. Volkswagen AG has received no complaints for its billboards in New York and Los Angeles but decided to pull them anyway. Ana Roca, a professor of Spanish and linguistics at Florida International University, said the English usage of the word "doesn't have the same power it has in Spanish." "People who are reading it in a Spanish neighborhood, it will have a different effect for them ... because they realize the real connotation," Roca said. Keyes said the original billboard was not intended to offend anyone. Instead, it was an attempt to convey that the GTI is a "high-performance sports car," he said. The billboards will be replaced with two ads, with one saying "Here today, gone tamale" and the other "Kick a little gracias."
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Oh Dang! Someone got their little bitty feeeeeeelings hurty-poo.
You feel offended? Well, you must be a victim then. Go see a psychiatrist. Ain't no one in this ****ing country got no COJONES no more! . Compliments of an Hispanic TV station in L.A. ... . 
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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I really cant see how hispanics wouldnt find that funny...
Being half Latino myself, I think it's hysterical |
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