Quote Originally Posted by Marcus View Post
I didn't know that.
What's funny in this picture?
This advertisement was from Britain in the very early 20th century. The slogan "Have you a little Fairy in your home?" was a play on words -- it meant either "Есть ли у вас дома немного мыла марки «Fairy»?" or "Есть ли у вас дома маленькая фея?"

However, in modern US English slang, "Have you a little fairy in your home?" would be understood as something like "Есть ли у вас дома маленький гомик?" ("Fairy" is a somewhat rude slang term for a male homosexual, but it's less rude than "fag".) And if I'm not mistaken, "гомик" is a rude word, but sounds mild in comparison with "пидор".

P.S. Even today, the "Fairy" brands of soaps/detergents are rarely sold in the US, because the name sounds Too Gay. But when I lived in Moscow in the early 1990s, you could buy imported British мыло для посуды under the trademark «Ultra-Fairy» Washing-Up Liquid. To American ears, this sounded incredibly hilarious -- something like "Ультра-Гомик"!