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shag mug on japanese mags and web site

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saw some kooky japanee girly mag displayed at ABC in wakywaky da odda day. caught my eye cuz shag's tiki design displayed prominently, pushing the mag and a web site titled
http://www.exotiki.com

good name, bad web site.

caught my eye cuz shag's tiki design

Yeah thats what caught my eye too!

Did you notice in the tiki gallery that there were two Mai Tiki carvings. I thought that was a little weird that they made it all the way to Hawaii.

T

Yeah but did you check out the magazine gallery? Click on the magazine link and then click on gallery 1 or 2, then click on a cover and whallah asian babes all nekkid like.

Those clazy Japanese with their Engrish:
Who else would come up with titles like "Video Boy" and "Dr. Picasso"...
AND they are "by airflown from Japan"!

L

On 2004-06-11 18:53, FLOUNDERart wrote:

caught my eye cuz shag's tiki design

Yeah thats what caught my eye too!

Did you notice in the tiki gallery that there were two Mai Tiki carvings. I thought that was a little weird that they made it all the way to Hawaii.

bad corporate decor buying decision.

L

On 2004-06-14 08:15, Johnny Dollar wrote:
http://www.engrish.com

'course, to be fair, gotta mention:
we amelicans commit the same, uh.. offense when we wear t shirts and sport shirts with seemingly random katakana symbols all over the fabric. thinking we look exotic...
a popular style of "aloha shirt" lately for a while is the very oriental looking dragon graphic with kanji and katakana words scattered about...

B

...and the Americans who will get anything tatooed to them in Japanese/Chinese characters.

i love asking "What do you think your tattoo says?" Followed by a "Well, here's what it really says..."

Like the brittish guy with the chinese characters for "At the end of the day, this is an ugly boy"

http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/essays/tattoos.htm

B

Classic!

L

On 2004-06-15 05:43, atomictonytiki wrote:
Like the brittish guy with the chinese characters for "At the end of the day, this is an ugly boy"

this is good:

http://www.bringdown.com/features/prison/vancamp.html


hell, even some non word, graphic design only tattoos speak loudly and also say :
"at the end of the day this is another ugly boy!"

among many others, i will never understand the appeal of a mad skowling clown tattoo...

M

On 2004-06-11 20:23, bigbrotiki wrote:
Those clazy Japanese with their Engrish:

Just like those crazy Germans calling it Vitco!

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