In the gents toilets at K�ln/Bonn airport I found a vending machine selling perl condoms. So I bought a box:
http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/Condom.jpeg
That's pretty funny, but maybe more so to people from outside Germany as "Perle" means "pearl". I suppose I needn't explain what that's to say in the context.
On a side note: When I spent a year in the US under Clinton administration, people considered the condome brand "Billy Boy" to be the funniest thing in the world. :-)
I wonder if the manufacturers (Ritex Gummiwarenfabrik GmbH - www.ritex.de) could be convinced to donate packets for publicity (say) to say Perl conferences.
If they ever heard of the programming language... I'll surely watch those condom machines closer from now on.
PS Offhand I translate "Gummiwarenfabrik" as rubber-ware factory, but I may have that wrong.
That's pretty good. Well, perhaps not quite - Waren translate to goods.
Steffen
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