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Official Oktoberfest poster 2009

A stylized Brezn on black, me likey

Whitney-Events
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.

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HellesAngel
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.
Melf
Cool..never knew Munich was translated as Monaco in Italian ... I know France's Monaco but ... Muenchen as Monaco, Interesting
Keydeck
Boobies!
sarabyrd
You always say that.

They're actually multi-coloured Rorschach cards. Big red breasts, one large blue breast, vertical breasts and eh, a mug of beer.
Pas
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.
cinzia
Um, the Principality of Monaco doesn't belong to France. Also, in Italian, Munich is pronounced MoNAco.
UrbanAngel
It's full name in Italian is also something like Monaco di Baveria, to avoid confusion.
sarabyrd
@ cinzia - I've always heard the Italians calling it MO-na-co but they'd say anything.
Kay
It's Monaco di Baviera (AFAIK, stress on syllables marked in bold).
cinzia
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.
Kay
It's an exception to the normal pattern of Italian speech, then.

Hmm, there are probably quite a few: cavolo (=cabbage), for example. I'll see if I can think of some more...
UrbanAngel
Calling something a minger in English wouldn't make it sell well though!
jamie
Very nice. Any trace of the runner-ups?
Pas
Calling something a minger in English wouldn't make it sell well though!

There was a T-Shirt with Minga on it at the Starkbier fest last year. I was sooooooooo close to buying one.
bohemka
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.
KaiserWilly
it looks like the numbers 09 to me...
Allershausen
It looks like 70's retro to me. Any chance of them doing 70's prices as well?
Gen
Wear a pair of 70's Lederhosen and maybe... click at your own risk!
sarabyrd
Doesn't anyone see the roller coaster? Or the monsters from Outer Space à la Kang and Kodos?
planetmoni
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.
BigEnglish2009
I am sure that the French will be tutting with disgust as their precious language has once again been ignored.......
Kay
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?
Allershausen
Non.
Kay
Don't take it personally, Allers. I was just trying to imagine what a Frenchie's reply to BE's remark might be.
sarabyrd
But it's right there, in yellow on the right: Munich.
*Don't believe what you see, believe what you know!*
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