Wednesday, February 21, 2007

diminuitive

crappy (onemorehandbag) The poster trying to motivate dog-owners to take a plastic bag out of a dispenser reads Nimm ein Sackerl für mein Gackerl which is Austrian dialect and would translate to something like take a baggie for my crappie in English. In Vienna, we sure like our diminuitives.

I have to say I actually like the slogan and even voted for it in an online-contest for the catchiest phrase to advertise the so-called "dog-campaign" with.


The campaign was initiated by a frustrated mother (a child-owner, so to speak) who was tired of navigating prams around dog turds in parks and playgrounds. She set up a website and got like-minded people to sign a petition trying to lobby city hall into doing something against this curse which definitely not only affects young Mums. It's too early for statistics to determine the benefit of this campaign but the availability of bags certainly puts dog-owners to shame who "forget" to carry their own bags when walking their little darlings. For those stubborn individuals who don't even see the necessity to get the excrements off the pavement one of these alternative texts might work:

Steck dein Kopfi ins Topfi (Put your little head into the potty)
or, equally cute and catchy in German at least: Nimm ein Beissi vom Scheissi (Take a little bite of the shit)


2 Comments:

Blogger ka-ma said...

Doesn't Gackerl sound so much better (cuter) that crappie? The slogan is great and surely works in German, or should I say Austrian!
I do wish people would clean after their pets in Europe, especially Italy! Over there it truly takes a highly sophisticated navigating around the "land mines" as we used to call them! The rest of the Europe also lags behind in that area. I hate to praise Japan, but here every owner who walks his dog carries (usually white) gloves, a little shovel and a bag. No turds around here, no siree!

2/22/2007 11:27:00 PM  
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