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illflem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-04 05:36 PM
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From http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/tombihn.asp

Claim: Washing instruction tags on Tom Bihn bags carry a hidden message in French.

Status: True.

Origins: We've seen examples of all sorts of ways of sneaking subversive messages into product packaging and advertisements — everything from blurting out words in foreign languages during the filming of commercials to encoding statements as acrostics, but this is a first for us: concealing a dissentious notice in a product's washing instructions tag.

In April 2004, someone called attention to the fact something was a little odd about the care instruction tags found on backpacks and laptop cases produced by manufacturer TOM BIHN of Port Angeles, Washington. Specifically, what was unusual was that the English and French statements on those tags didn't quite match — while both versions included the usual admonitions not to use bleach, not to machine dry, and not to iron the bags, the French-language version included an extra phrase: "NOUS SOMMES DESOLES QUE NOTRE PRESIDENT SOIT UN IDIOT. NOUS N'AVONS PAS VOTE POUR LUI." Roughly translated, this statement reads in English as: "We're sorry our president is an idiot. We didn't vote for him."

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pnutchuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-04 05:42 PM
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1. I live in France now and didn't need the translation to know that
it was hilarious. If this is true, wooo hooo!!
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Jo March Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-04 06:15 PM
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2. I liked that so much that I put it on my website.
thanks for the post
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