The importance of doing research

[vettecat]

Apparently, a number of people have been discovering that their funky Chinese tattoos don't mean what they thought they did...

("You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.") :-)

Comments

[angwantibo.livejournal.com]

This has been on the news off an on the past year. My favorite from this article is "demon bird moth balls."

Next time, post a warning

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

French Silk ice cream coming out my nose isn't as pleasant as it sounds.

The article was hilarious, though. Thanks.

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of a slightly different topic.

There was a guy at school wearing a shirt that mentioned in english a bar mitzvah (I think in boston) with the boys name and date. Then there was a line under this in unfamiliar characters.

Me "So what language is that?"

Him "Hebrew I assume."

Me "That's not hebrew!"

He came back the next week and said a friend told him it might be Korean, but he had gotten the shirt at a sale and had always assumed it was hebrew :). I am ignorant enough to have been wondering if it was in Klingon :).

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's better than "The person wearing this tattoo is an idiot..."

Re: Next time, post a warning

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

At least the French Silk should have been smooth, right? :-) (You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it!)

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

That's weird on so many levels... why would he want to wear a shirt from a stranger's bar mitzvah? And assuming the parents paid for the shirts, why would they use a language nobody could read? Very odd.