Tractor Toss

My inner Spanish Teacher had a field day with the red ink here. I came across this gem in a stack of pending ads. The client tried to save a few bucks by doing it herself. She doesn't even know she's a comedy writer!

Some of the highlights of the fair are the Tractor Toss, Demolition Mushroom, The Display of Direct Music, Entertainment in Sand, Queen Parade, Judgemental Cattle, the zoo that gives you tender lovin'...

In the real world, you don't get points for trying, people just won't come to your event.

They don't not come to be mean, they don't come because they don't know what you mean. (I wonder how that sentence would come out with an electronic translator???)

To be fair, I have blocked out any identifying information from the ad.

Think about that phrase, to be fair, in this context. The writer confused Fair (carnival) Feria with Fair (just, equitable, impartial) justa. Con admisión justa. The intent was that admission to the concert is free with Fair admission but that's not how it came out.

Translating this piece is challenging because some of the themes are very American and you wouldn't find them in the RAE Real Academia Española Dictionary of Spanish. Tractor Pull, Petting Zoo, Carnival Rides, Demolition Derby, Monster Trucks are typical of a Red-White-and-Blue country county fair. But the world is getting smaller and some of these events have spread south of the border. A Google search would have found examples of how these events are named or how Hispanic ex-pats living here in the USA try to describe the phenomena to their back-home families. Tractor Pulls are found in some places in South America and Spain and they are called Carreras de Tractores, literally, tractor races, which is essentially what they are. Tractor Tira brings images of something completely different.

For me, it brought up a mental image of a Tractor Toss. I'd pay a fair admission to see that, yippe-ki-ay!