Diplomatic screw-up over fishy translation

Hopefully somewhere in Israel, a particular journalist is being forced to write "I will not use Babelfish for contacting foreign diplomats" a few thousand times.

If you didn't any know better, you might think the prison service was being run by idiots

The increasing reliance on 'summary justice' from the UK government and police is far from a good thing. The job of the police is to detect and prevent crime, not to punish it. The result is that many people who would have had their cases dismissed by a court of law end up paying unnecessary fines. It's only in patently absurd cases such as this one that people stop and take notice.

Eddie Griffin, a clearly underrated actor from such marvellous films as Undercover Brother and Norbit, did something horrible a couple of days ago. When taking part in a charity racing event on Monday, he managed to total a Ferrari Enzo. One of the 400 Ferrari Enzos in existence. Valued at $1.5 million. Dollars. $1.5 million dollars worth of car rendered junk by the sheer uselessness of Eddie Griffin.

So does he follow the owner around begging for forgiveness? Does he drop to his knees and pledge his life in servitude? Does he even apologise? Does he fuck. To quote the idiot - "Undercover Brother's good at karate and all the rest of that, but the brother can't drive."

I think the wonderful site, the superficial.com summed it up best - "If Eddie Griffin crashed my Ferrari Enzo the next day's headlines would read "Eddie Griffin strangled to death and then stabbed and then shot a couple times by angry Enzo owner." Although that'd be kind of a long headline. They could use a small font or something."

In Eddie Griffin's defence, it is at least in part the owner's fault for giving a Ferrari Enzo to Eddie Griffin. I mean, that was just stupid. The closest thing to a Ferrari that I own is a 5 year old bicycle, and I'd still trust that to a drunk chimpanzee than I would anyone who refers to themselves as 'Undercover Brother'

So as the new halfbakery idea has pointed out, a brand of Welsh sausages (snappily known as Welsh Dragon Sausages) has been forced to rename to avoid mistaken consumers purchasing them believing them to actually contain dragon meat.

To make it easier for them, scaryjim and I have been coming up with our own list of possible mistakes, just to ensure that nobody actually gets confused.

James' so far
Buffalo wings
Baked Alaska
Manchester and Bakwell tarts - for not containing a slapper from that region.
Shepherds pie
Snowballs
Animal Crackers
Cupcakes

Mine:
Anchor Butter
Madeira Cakes
Hob Nobs

Any others that people can think of?

How jaw-droppingly stupid was this? What response was Paramount really expecting for leaving secret devices in news racks?