Foreign words that make you go fnarr

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LeGreg - 23% Ginger, 77% Fred Dec 2011 2:06pm, 16 Dec 2011 8,860 posts	0 LeGreg - 23% Ginger, 77% Fred So, what are your favourite foreign words / expressions? Mine have to be the Dutch "toeslag" (surcharge) and the perennial English favourite adorning countless traffic lights "pine sale" (dirty dick in French). Always worthy of a chuckle.
Raptors Claws are coming to town Dec 2011 2:09pm, 16 Dec 2011 18,619 posts	0 Raptors Claws are coming to town I was surprised to learn that "kunterbunt" is not German for vajazzle.
Raptors Claws are coming to town Dec 2011 2:11pm, 16 Dec 2011 18,620 posts	0 Raptors Claws are coming to town And we kinda fnarred in class when the teacher wrote "six days" in Latin on the board. But we were a class of 12 year olds, and we thought the teacher hadn't realised what she had written.
WinterWonderlandTime Dec 2011 2:12pm, 16 Dec 2011 478 posts	0 WinterWonderlandTime The popular Swedish chocolate bar 'Plopp' always brings out the sniggering 6 year old in me.
Naomi P Dec 2011 2:16pm, 16 Dec 2011 9,344 posts	0 Naomi P Pocari Sweat sports drink, available across much of Asia. Sounds gross, tastes quite nice.
Kittenheels Kath Dec 2011 2:17pm, 16 Dec 2011 2,920 posts	0 Kittenheels Kath I can't think of any, but my friend Joyce loves the fact that there are composers called Fux and Scheidt.
DeeGee Dec 2011 2:20pm, 16 Dec 2011 10,723 posts	0 DeeGee Fuchs Sechs Sechs fuechse.
Wriggling Snake Dec 2011 2:21pm, 16 Dec 2011 1,541 posts	0 Wriggling Snake kunstmuseum
TripletDad Dec 2011 2:22pm, 16 Dec 2011 1,691 posts	0 TripletDad The word banish always made us laugh, in Irish it's a shortened version of "Bean Feis" which literally means "festival with a woman", or more basically sex. So in the old history stories the teachers would say that someone was "banished" and all the class would chuckle.
DeeGee Dec 2011 2:22pm, 16 Dec 2011 10,724 posts	0 DeeGee I enjoyed the collaboration advertised between the Spanish roadside catering company ARS, and the coffee company BONKA. There were adverts in the windows of the services for ARS BONKA