> Or so they thought.  The story goes on to say that "embrazar" in
> fact means "impregnate", which naturally caused a good deal of
> confusion as to what exactly was in the pens in the first place!

Not unreasonable considering the etymology of pencil/penis/pen and
even a fuzzy and coincidental connection to "penicillin"

I could imagine an "interesting" ad campaign. Worthy of one of
those "World's Sexiest Commercials" programmes

In days gone by, in simpler times, pre-PC, much language was
pretty down-to-earth.  "Testimony" for example

And if I've got anything wrong here, well, to use one of Shakespeare's
claimed double entendres, "fiddlesticks" !!!! ;-)

PS, the car name Nova was a flop in Spain. In English it conjures
up something quite different to the "No go" in Spanish

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