Monday, May 18, 2020

German-English puns

Walking through town on Saturday, I came across two billboards with these pictures on them:

Der BEST 18/1-Gewinner ist gekürt: »Germany's best Plopmodel ...
This is a pun on Heidi Klum's TV show "Germany's next Topmodel", where young women try to become fashion models egged on by the so-called model that Karl Lagerfeld didn't think much of.

And then there was also this (Pflegekraft = carer)...
Neue Personalkampagne gestartet - Health&Care Management

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