Official Oktoberfest poster 2009

After last year's memory cards the jury managed to pick a fun design this year - a stylized Brezn with Oktoberfest München in German, English and Italian. I think it brings across the international appeal of the Fest and makes you feel a bit drunk already trying to read the names.

It looks like what you'd get trying to draw the Olympic rings after five mass - kind of circular and coloured but just looking at it makes you feel unsteady on your feet. Quite appropriate really.

Cool..never knew Munich was translated as Monaco in Italian ... I know France's Monaco but ... Muenchen as Monaco, Interesting

Boobies!

You always say that.

He's got a point though.

I can well imagine falling over looking at it on the way home. There's something mesmerising about it. Which does quickly bring us back to boobies.

Um, the Principality of Monaco doesn't belong to France. Also, in Italian, Munich is pronounced MoNAco.

It's full name in Italian is also something like Monaco di Baveria, to avoid confusion.

@ cinzia - I've always heard the Italians calling it MO-na-co but they'd say anything.

It's Monaco di Baviera (AFAIK, stress on syllables marked in bold).

See also Google Maps lists Munich as Monaco di Baviera, Strange bit of Italian in the English webpages

Thanks for the correction! It's an exception to the normal pattern of Italian speech, then. I'm surprised they didn't include the Bavarian "Minga" in the poster.

Hmm, there are probably quite a few: cavolo (=cabbage), for example. I'll see if I can think of some more...

Calling something a minger in English wouldn't make it sell well though!

Very nice. Any trace of the runner-ups?

There was a T-Shirt with Minga on it at the Starkbier fest last year. I was sooooooooo close to buying one.

Pretty nice work. In German, English and Italian it's simultaneously a pretzel, a smiling dude with a mustache, a pair of breasts, and two mass glasses clinking so perfectly they form a ven diagram: Oktoberfest.

it looks like the numbers 09 to me...

It looks like 70's retro to me. Any chance of them doing 70's prices as well?

Wear a pair of 70's Lederhosen and maybe... click at your own risk!

Doesn't anyone see the roller coaster? Or the monsters from Outer Space à la Kang and Kodos?

i really don't like the black background (looks more like night club party venue or some event taking place at night). the rest i like.

I am sure that the French will be tutting with disgust as their precious language has once again been ignored.......

Do they really want to be associated with it? Drinking good wine is a far more civilised activity than guzzling beer, n'est-ce pas?

Non.

Don't take it personally, Allers. I was just trying to imagine what a Frenchie's reply to BE's remark might be.

But it's right there, in yellow on the right: Munich.
*Don't believe what you see, believe what you know!*