"Impossible is Nothing"

Obviously, the poster got your attention.
I believe the language of advertisings is sometimes crooked on purpose, so that people will discuss it, together with the advertized product.

[nq:1]"Impossible is Nothing" Is that syntactically plain wrong or is there a kind of joke or allusion that I don't get?[/nq]
I haven't seen it, but it's possible the poster is saying that for Beckham, what would normally be considered impossible is trivially easy. This usage is often found in hyperbolic language:

For most people, it would be impossible. For him, it was nothing. "Than

[nq:1]"Impossible is Nothing" Is that syntactically plain wrong or is there a kind of joke or allusion that I don't get?[/nq]
It's an allusion to the old (and usually incorrect) saying "Nothing is impossible." Not having seen the poster, I suspect the advertiser means to imply that the wearers of Adidas find "impossible" tasks to be easy.

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[nq:1]"Impossible is Nothing" Is that syntactically plain wrong or is there a kind of joke or allusion that I don't get?[/nq]
Moving to Spain obviously hasn't done anything for his English.

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[nq:2]"Impossible is Nothing" Is that syntactically plain wrong or is there a kind of joke or allusion that I don't get?[/nq]
[nq:1]Moving to Spain obviously hasn't done anything for his English.[/nq]
Maybe he stopped off at Degoba on the way and picked it up there..

Or maybe someone's having fun with the alleged symmetry of copulative verbs..r

[nq:1]Maybe he stopped off at Degoba on the way and picked it up there..[/nq]
That's "Dagobah".
-=Eric, must've wandered into alt.whatever.they.spoke.back.then.usage

[nq:1]"Impossible is Nothing" Is that syntactically plain wrong or is there a kind of joke or allusion that I don't get?[/nq]
I don't know. What I can say is this: nothing is nothing.

R.

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[nq:2]Maybe he stopped off at Degoba on the way and picked it up there..[/nq]
[nq:1]That's "Dagobah".[/nq]
Googled, found hits, satisfied myself that the "b" wasn't a "v", didn't look any further...now I see there are more hits for "Degobah" than for my spelling, and still more for yours, which violates my sense of phonetics, but that's Lucas's problem..
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When I find the person who put this "Send message" button next to the "Quit" button, I'm going to install several large sharp metal objects in his or her nose..r