Monday, July 31, 2006

A Tale of Two Bogs




An American cranberry drink company has launched a new advertising campaign as illustrated in the photo above.

The ad shows a couple of farmers standing knee-deep in a cranberry bog, i.e. a wetland area where cranberries are cultivated.

I’m not sure this same campaign slogan would be successful in the UK where “bog” has an entirely different meaning...




British “bog”

11 comments:

  1. Yayyy! I'm first.

    Now, where'd I put my cranberry juice.

    Ahhhh, damn, how'd it end up in the loo?

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  2. I love cranberry juice. It's my fave.

    I also love sitting on the bog.

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  3. I usually have a little ocean spray after a good curry.

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  4. Awaiting: Blame your kids.

    Piggy: I've heard you blog from the bog.

    Geoff: Sounds more like a dodgy curry.

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  5. it's funny cuz drinking cranny juice make me want to go to the bog..so the slogan for UK could Say "From our Bog to Your Bog...its a Good Thing"

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  6. *hands Pamer an advertising contract*

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  7. it could be like one of those recirculating fountains they have at weddings, with the chocolate all pouring down, except it would be a person sitting on a toilet, you know, and like,drinking lots of cranberry juice and peeing a lot and, yeah.

    yeah.

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  8. FN: Have you been into the crantinis this morning?

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  9. We do indeed say "bog" to mean "toilet" (but not urinal). As well as "marshy area".

    We call a roll of toilet paper a "bogroll" - causing much hilarity about the word "blogroll".

    This is the famously subtle British sense of humour.

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  10. Kapitano: Bogroll/Blogroll. Ha! I never noticed that 'til now. You Brits crack me up. Ta.

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  11. Oh, and what about the sasquatch tale of the Boggy Creek Monster? Hmmm? Poo-addled man/monkey freak?

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