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Amusing fortune cookie text - Germany

Is this a joke, or just a bad translation?

Vanman

07.Dec.2006 09:36 hrs

At the end of my lunch yesterday I opened my fortune cookie and found this.
Not sure if it is suppose to be a "funny" fortune or if its just a bad translation.
I thought it was funny, but my German colleagues weren't even cracking a smile.

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sky_hoc

07.Dec.2006 09:52 hrs

Thats cool, I love it.. LMAO

sarabyrd

07.Dec.2006 10:08 hrs

It's intentional.

tom_a

07.Dec.2006 10:45 hrs

It must be intentional. Nobody would "accidentally" translate the German sentence in such a way!

sunny_me

05.Jan.2007 23:02 hrs

Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters is the correct translation...

Leon80

06.Jan.2007 00:00 hrs

This is the correct translation, I'll explain you why, when you start drinking you start seeing everyone as handsome or pretty (depending on your gender)

sarabyrd

06.Jan.2007 08:38 hrs

Along the lines of this famous motto:

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bern

06.Jan.2007 09:43 hrs

...in bed.

Add that to the end of just about any fortune cookie for mild amusement. Works with most of them.

Kay

06.Jan.2007 10:23 hrs

Here is the scientific explanation of why beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

plastic

06.Jan.2007 10:51 hrs

That explains why the collective noun for a group of girls is a "bevvy"

MysteryMan

11.May.2007 21:48 hrs

"Schlönheit ist im Auge des Bierträgers "
would have been better

osmachar

16.May.2007 13:23 hrs

The English one (beer holder rather than beholder) is funny - the German one is just a normal saying...

Lizzygirl

17.May.2007 13:00 hrs

well, the german phrase is not funny, the English is, it's not translated the way it should be

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