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Comparing apples and oranges in foreign countries

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The US cover of Freakonomics is a play on the old “comparing apples to oranges” phrase:

Well, it looks like comparing apples and oranges is a strange concept in many places. Check out the different analogies used on the cover (green egg yolks, banana corn, three headed scissors, etc.) from editions in foreign countries:

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(L to R: Chinese, Denmark, Estonia)

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(L to R: Indonesia, Nor...


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