The Pen that Couldn’t Reproduce. Even When it Tried.
This isn’t a promotional pen; just a promotion for a pen… that went terribly awry (as so many translations do!).
A Mexican pen company, Parker Pen was looking to start a new ad campaign. Unfortunately they had a foreign ad team (or just some college kids making a joke, I’m not quite sure) and pretty soon they were apologizing for a pretty interesting slogan.
Instead of the intended “it won’t leak in your pocket and embarrass you,” the company mixed up the verb “embarazer” and declared loud and proud- “It won’t leak in your pocket and make you pregnant.”
Because when buying ball-point pens, this is definitely my largest concern.