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Dec 21 2008 2 Comments

Cook, cup or cock?

The Japanese word for a cook is コック (kokku) which, for the untrained ear, may well lead to the odd, mildly amusing member-based misunderstanding. Although there again, some may well suggest that for the likes of foul-mouthed and famous British chef, Gordon Ramsay, such a faux pas may indeed be fitting.

Still, this kind of kitchen-themed confusion doesn’t necessarily end there, as an apparently comparable cock up concerning the creation of a similarly sounding cup can, at least in the sauciness stakes, offer up some suitably stiff competition.

Japanese cock up

(click image for phallic, but unfortunately fairly obviously photoshopped, frivolity)

via Neta

Categorized: Language, Television

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  1. Neil Duckett says

    12/21/2008 at 8:00 pm

    That`s hilarious!

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