Excuse Me, That’s not a Door
Thomas claims he was trying to get into the new Abercrombie & Fitch on Orchard Road. Hmmmmm! He explains that it had something to do with a mistranslation of the German word “Hosenladen”!?!?!
But seriously, this rather risqué three-story ad highlights just how far we’ve come from neighboring Malaysia where, while reading National Geographic magazine, we discovered morality censors had hand-neutered Michael Angelo’s David with a black marker. What a difference a little border makes!
For non-German speakers – which is probably most of you – I’ll explain the “hosenladen” joke.
The German word for “fly”, as in the “fly” in your pants, directly translates as “pants-store.” So the joke means Thomas didn’t realize he was grabbing onto a huge picture of the guy’s fly but rather was trying to get into the pants store.