[Ducati] Italian to English Translation

[ducati9ss at comcast.net]

You were right the first time.
The shirt is a "screw you" to the Japanesse bike makers.
Like the American mucle car owners hate the Import sports cars and refer to 
them as "rice burners".
I believe that Italian bikes are refered to as "olive oil" bikes by those 
who ride the Japanese models.
So it's saying in other words, "my bike might run on "olive oil", but at 
least it's not a "rice burner".
Did that make any sense?
One last thing, I'd bet that it's ment as a dig for the Japanese scooter 
riders over there. As Italy has quite a few scooter manufactures, they hate 
it when they see someone riding a Jap. scooter.
Hope that helps.
ducati9s
Yes I am Italian, Yes I've been there twice.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <the_lammster at comcast.net>
To: "Ducati Owners Group" <ducati at ducati.net>
Cc: "Jayme Frye" <jayme at frye-family.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Ducati] Italian to English Translation


> No but I can handle a translator on my PC! ;-}  Actually, the translator 
> for context and a Italian-English dictionary for alternate meanings.
>
> LA MIA MOTO BEVE OLIO, MA  NON MANGERA' MAI RISO.  My motorcycle may drink 
> oil, but it never eats my fun (literal, I'd say "eats my happiness").
>
> FAR FUMARE LA GOMMA, UCCIDE IL COPERTONE.  If you burn rubber, you'll kill 
> the tire (literal, I'd say "ruin the tire").
>
> Ken Lamm
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: "Jayme Frye" <jayme at frye-family.org>
>
>> Any Italian speakers on the list? I stumbled upon a cool tshirt on 
>> fleabay
>> from an Italian Ducati Owners Club MaleDucati (google translation Badly
>> Ducati?) There are actually two shirts one with the slogan "FAR FUMARE LA
>> GOMMA, UCCIDE IL COPERTONE" that looks suspiciously like a Surgeon 
>> General's
>> warning label and a second shirt with the slogan "LA MIA MOTO BEVE OLIO, 
>> MA
>> NON MANGERA' MAI RISO". Google translates these to:
>> "TO MAKE TO SMOKE THE RUBBER, KILLS THE COPERTONE"
>> "MY MOTION DRINKS OIL, BUT NOT MANGERA' NEVER LAUGHED"
>> Can anyone do better?
>> Links:
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/T-SHIRT-MALE-DUCATI-ROSSA-BEVE-OLIO-Monster-900-1098-S4_W0QQ
>> itemZ200135352538QQihZ010QQcategoryZ14028QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/T-SHIRT-MALE-DUCATI-Marlboro-900-620-S4-S2R-monster-998_W0QQ
>> itemZ200135345658QQihZ010QQcategoryZ14028QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>>
>> -- 
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