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- From: pjm@isis.cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: strange advertisement
- Message-ID: <C1HC1p.985@phage.cshl.org>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:08:12 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.192409.8460@netcom.com>
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- Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
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- In article <1993Jan26.192409.8460@netcom.com> gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes:
- >Some years ago there was a magazine ad featuring a portrait-style photograph
- >of a Japanese engineer; underneath it was the caption, in large letters,
- >"I am you," followed by text.
- >
- >That, or my memory is playing tricks on me.
- >
- >If I recall, the text did not adequately explain the caption but ended with
- >a repetition of its words.
- >
- >Anyone else recall this, or am I mad, or both?
-
- yes. but that is a mistranslation. the correct translation is
- "I have your job".
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