HomerSimpson

Colgate means "go hang yourself" in Spanish

colgar (in Spanish) means to hang, and if you add "te" to the end of any verb, it means "to yourself". Henge, colgate is "go hang yourself"

Hansel

Yes, something my spanish teacher pointed out *every time I wore a Colgate shirt to school. Man, I hated that teacher, lol.

s07mmorrissey

Actually the tú command would be "cuélgate," not "colgate," because colgar is a stem-changing verb, but that doesn't even make sense because colgar means to hang up something, whereas the verb ahorcar is used to refer to a person hanging himself. So, if you wanted to tell someone to hang himself, you would say, "Ahórcate."

smatz1

so told homer