Comments on: Never Look a Synchronicity in the Mouth http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/ JFK: ''we choose to go to the ...'' Wed, 23 May 2012 14:47:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: furrykef http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37596 furrykef Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:06:48 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37596 <i>Or a car company marketing a car named “Nova” in a Spanish-speaking country.</i> I like Snopes's assessment of that: that's not any worse than a dinette set called "Notable" (because who would want a dinette set without a table?). Most Spanish speakers wouldn't even notice the connection, just as we wouldn't readily notice the connection between "notable" and "no table". So I don't think this example is akin to "Mac Tonight" or the iPad, whose dissonance is more obvious. Or a car company marketing a car named “Nova” in a Spanish-speaking country.

I like Snopes’s assessment of that: that’s not any worse than a dinette set called “Notable” (because who would want a dinette set without a table?). Most Spanish speakers wouldn’t even notice the connection, just as we wouldn’t readily notice the connection between “notable” and “no table”. So I don’t think this example is akin to “Mac Tonight” or the iPad, whose dissonance is more obvious.

]]> By: Mark in Boston http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37511 Mark in Boston Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:16:26 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37511 furrykef, no worse than McDonalds setting their song "Mac Tonight" to the tune of a ballad about a criminal who cut up his victims with a knife. Or a car company marketing a car named "Nova" in a Spanish-speaking country. And don't get me started about Apple's iPad. furrykef, no worse than McDonalds setting their song “Mac Tonight” to the tune of a ballad about a criminal who cut up his victims with a knife.

Or a car company marketing a car named “Nova” in a Spanish-speaking country.

And don’t get me started about Apple’s iPad.

]]> By: Danny Boy (London Derriere) http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37458 Danny Boy (London Derriere) Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:15:07 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37458 And do Trojan War re-enacters use that namesake product as water balloons to launch from their siege engines? And do Trojan War re-enacters use that namesake product as water balloons to launch from their siege engines?

]]> By: furrykef http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37456 furrykef Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:02:06 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37456 Further synchronicity, though admittedly not same day: just the other day I read about the Trojan horse (in Latin, though not quite Virgil's original words) in my Latin book, and one of my friends -- not knowing that I had done so -- said this, quoting somebody or other: "What were the Trojans famous for? Letting something sneak past their defenses. Is this an intelligent name for a condom brand?" Further synchronicity, though admittedly not same day: just the other day I read about the Trojan horse (in Latin, though not quite Virgil’s original words) in my Latin book, and one of my friends — not knowing that I had done so — said this, quoting somebody or other: “What were the Trojans famous for? Letting something sneak past their defenses. Is this an intelligent name for a condom brand?”

]]> By: David A. Rooney http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37450 David A. Rooney Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:52:50 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37450 Our cats just used the furniture. Couldn't get them declawed because they liked riding around on my shoulders. Which hurt. Our cats just used the furniture. Couldn’t get them declawed because they liked riding around on my shoulders. Which hurt.

]]> By: Frank the curmudgeon http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37440 Frank the curmudgeon Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:22:15 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37440 Mine prefered the dog. He'd wait behind the ballaster s on the landing two steps up. When the lab walked by, the cat would reach out and swipe him. I wonder if they share the same afterlife as the Dinos ? Mine prefered the dog. He’d wait behind the ballaster s on the landing two steps up. When the lab walked by, the cat would reach out and swipe him. I wonder if they share the same afterlife as the Dinos ?

]]> By: George P http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37435 George P Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:36:05 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/04/13/never-look-a-synchronicity-in-the-mouth/#comment-37435 My cat prefers cardboard boxes to carpet or sisal scratching posts. My cat prefers cardboard boxes to carpet or sisal scratching posts.

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