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Whatsherface
6/23/2008 12:27 pm |
Buying T-shirts in Asia can be rather entertaining. You see a nice one that is well-constructed and tailored (read: makes you look hot) and then you read the words in the front. Or back, sometimes. Walk feild. See drims. Happy together. Here we go loop de joop. Cat happy. Miuow. Say what? Er, pass ... I suppose it's similar to seeing some white dude with a huge tattoo on his arm. It's a Chinese character and you can tell he thinks it's bitchin'. Except the words says Happy. If it was read in reverse image. It's the wrong way round, mate. So it was with some amusement that I received an email of the new promotional poster of a rather famous singer (sic) in Korea, with the unfortunate name of Li Hyori, who has launched her latest album. It is even more ironic as the warbler has a rather risque image (well, for Koreans anyway) and everyone who can speak English in Korea is sniggering at it. I rid poster. Laugh small big. Now and just now. In the immortal words from 6th Sense ... I see stupid people. |
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6/23/2008 5:47 pm |
I'm cracking up here---but then, it's kind of expected. After all, they did come up with Dick Sticks.  I'm dyslexic. I scream Ho Dog instead of Oh God in the throes of passion.
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6/24/2008 2:38 am |
Dick Sticks are Korean??? For some reason I thought they were Japanese. Honestly, most of the laughable T-shirts I have seen seem to be Japanese ones. I think the Koreans do not have as much confidence to inflict their Engrish on their T-shirts yet. In the immortal words from 6th Sense ... I see stupid people.
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 6/24/2008 5:10 am |
Oh dear.
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6/24/2008 7:11 am |
I often come across the same sort of words printed on the T-shirts of my students'. The following is what I secretly copied down from the back of a girl's T-shirt while walking around in my class one day: "Sex pot revenge Never be the last Keep on kicking ass." And there is a picture inserted between the lines: a skeleton with two long guns crossed against each other. The ironical thing is that the girl is of special quiet and obedient character. It seems that the choice of the right T-shirt with the right English words will be the last topic I've got to discuss with those girls before setting them free this term. Agnes
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6/24/2008 8:50 am |
Oh dear. In the immortal words from 6th Sense ... I see stupid people.
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6/24/2008 9:02 am |
I often come across the same sort of words printed on the T-shirts of my students'. The following is what I secretly copied down from the back of a girl's T-shirt while walking around in my class one day: "Sex pot revenge Never be the last Keep on kicking ass." And there is a picture inserted between the lines: a skeleton with two long guns crossed against each other. The ironical thing is that the girl is of special quiet and obedient character. It seems that the choice of the right T-shirt with the right English words will be the last topic I've got to discuss with those girls before setting them free this term. Yes, I do think you need to educate your students about their T-shirts. In the immortal words from 6th Sense ... I see stupid people.
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 6/25/2008 6:49 pm |
I can't decide if I should read it as, "It's whorish," or "It's your wish." I kind of got a laugh from the floating boots covering up her breasts. Not sure what that's supposed to signify. Ok. Blaze up! I got more reading to do. ~ Brian
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6/26/2008 9:41 am |
I know. When I saw the boots over her boobs, I totally cracked up. The Koreans are really strange to me. U go, boy! In the immortal words from 6th Sense ... I see stupid people.
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