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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsEver wonder why the Trivago dude is so scruffy looking and sporting his 3-day old shadow?
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Ever wonder why the Trivago dude is so scruffy looking and sporting his 3-day old shadow? (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Sep 2014
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Chan790
(20,176 posts)1. It's the worst-conceptualized website name ever.
Break it down into its component parts.
Tri-va-go.
Tri- 3
va- Spanish for "go"
go- go
So it's "3-go-go" or what I suspect they were going for was "3 words for go" or "go go go" except they only used two words for "go."
Maroons!
panader0
(25,816 posts)2. And Chevy wondered why the Nova didn't sell well in Mexico....
MADem
(135,425 posts)3. That one always made me laugh.....
Though the story about Coca Cola sounding like "Bite the wax tadpole" in China was funny too....
PassingFair
(22,434 posts)4. Hahahaha!
That guy really stands out.
My daughters call him "Horny cut-rate Jim Vanderbeek looking mf"...
I want to buy him a belt!
Put on a BELT for gawd's sake!
a kennedy
(29,658 posts)5. hate that commercial, and I turn the channel when it comes on.....
Ugh...
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)6. worst.wig.ever. outdoes The Trumpster, even. whoa!
CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)7. Just guessing here but...
...I think it's because he's a complete idiot.
He seems to think hotels have a wide variety of prices "...for the exact same room." This means that he has some inside access to each hotels' price list and will sell you that info...or....he has no idea what the phrase "exact same room" means. I go with the latter.
Based on too much exposure to television advertising I have concluded that the generational tendency toward illiteracy is featured daily on N.A. television. Don't get me started....
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eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)8. Because casting agents think stubble is cool ?
Apparently they didn't get the memo when Miami Vice went off the air.