Mitsubishi, driven by ...

I asked the owner of the local bar what the word was for straw which he told me. The following day, showing off, I asked for a tinto verano with a pajero. He looked at me aghast and then fell about laughing. Instead of asking for a straw pajita, the word I had used was a rather crude term for (how can I put this) ... a tiresome idiot. I wonder who at Mitsubishi gave their rather large 4-wheel drive the name Pajero!

Editor's note: In Spanish-speaking countries, the Mitsubishi Pajero is known as Mitsubishi Montero. It was first named Pajero after the pampas cat (leopardus pajeros), but the name was soon dropped, because it indeed means something entirely different in many Spanish-speaking countries ...

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