18 July 2007

Is your daughter just too gosh darn malignant?

Never fear, there's a whole line of toys in Switzerland designed to fix that:

I'm not sure I know what this one is (a fake cell phone, maybe?), but the offerings also included make-up sets and princess tiaras. Sweet.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

how absolutely strange

CanadianSwiss said...

Huh??? I don't even think I wuld have like one of those as a kid! I've always prefered trees, anyway :)

Miss Kim said...

I guess she's harmless?

Shelley - At Home in Rome said...

So the million dollar question is, does she have an evil twin sister called "Malignant Girl"? That would make for a good match-up!

scatterlined said...

After playing with the German <-> English dictionary I have my guess at an explanation.

"Freundlich" is a flattering adjective in German that can be used to describe "nice" people. Of course there is no perfect translation, so options include: friendly gregarious, suave and benign.

Mix in the fact the using English is "hip" and you end up with a botched translation (like I make all of the time).