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[rheasilvia]

I have been suddenly submerged in work, and expect this state of affairs to continue until the end of the week. Fannish withdrawal is hitting me hard, y'all. I haven't even been able to read DW properly, let alone comment on all of your awesome posts, and talk about Guardian, and plot/write/angst about not writing!

Instead I must pretend to be a functioning adult. Oh well. ;-)

Anyway! To make this post more interesting, have a pic of an amusingly risqué ad I saw today.

Translation: "I was in Jim today. Did me a world of good."

They're not talking about pegging, are they...? Right?

Poll #21863 Oh hey, Jim.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20

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Are they actually talking about pegging?

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Of course not! Why even.
2 (10.0%)

They so are. Heh.
7 (35.0%)

Hello, have you ever met advertising "professionals"?
4 (20.0%)

I HAVE. That's why I find it hard to believe nobody realized.
3 (15.0%)

But maybe it was the company's marketing people.
2 (10.0%)

Marketing people. SO PURE.
6 (30.0%)

Yeah, right.
0 (0.0%)

She looks so proud of herself.
11 (55.0%)

Well done, girl.
13 (65.0%)

Well done, Jim.
12 (60.0%)

Ticky box!
6 (30.0%)

Comments

[anotherslashfan]

And it's such a bad pun, too :D

[rheasilvia]

Yes! It is so bad. ;-) I mean, generally speaking you put the chocolate inside yourself, not the other way around...

[amnisias]

I think this is primarily a word play on Ich war heute im Gym, hat mir richtig gut getan (I went to the gym today, did me a world of good)as Jim and Gym are homophone, this would also fit with her attire.

[rheasilvia]

Definitely, but I do wonder if there is an intentional triple entendre, or if that part of it was an accident. ;-) I mean, it's not as though the gym/Jim-the-chocolate-bar pun actually works properly...

[tinny]

i often think of posting funny ads and then i never do. This one is indeed great. :D

[rheasilvia]

I love funny ads! Especially when they are unintentionally funny - in this case, I really wonder. ;-)

[liriel]

I ... what ... Do you really use "Gym" for "Fitnessstudio" in Germany?

[rheasilvia]

No, but a lot of slogans overestimate peoples' command of English for the sake of perceived coolness. ("Come in and find out" by Douglas being the most famous example - customers had such interesting translations as "komm herein und finde wieder raus", which admittedly is something I do hope for with stores I enter *g*).

Either way it is a very badly constructed pun. Unless they really were trying for the pegging association. ;-)