Showing posts with label wise words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wise words. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Lost In Transaltion II

The master has been at it again; our favourite producer of top quotes, head of Ryanair Michael O'Leary, was recently at a conference in Germany.

While commenting on his airline's new trans Atlantic service, which will offer all sorts of extras, he taxed the poor struggling translator with this nugget:

"Surely you have a word for handjobs in German?"

Friday, August 31, 2007

Wise Words No.37

"Air travel isn't as bad as they say, it's probably worse." So say the Houston Chronicle and who are we to argue?