The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for January 03, 2013

They all look like Moe.

Should have stuck with your favorite numbers.

As I always suspected!

Ain’t that the truth! Good comic reading, though.

You can pick your friends; you can pick your nose. You can’t pick your friend’s nose. Unless you’re REALLY good friends.

Ha! Love the little switch Hilburn did, and it looks like nobody gets the joke.

I read a story online that a lot of people in North America are paying money to have tattoos removed. They thought they were getting something cool put on them when the tattoo artists were actually putting on things like “Gullible White Boy” in Kanji and other as equally humiliating sayings.

Exactly! I can never understand why people consent to wear clothes, especially tee-shirts, with graphics in another language. Lately, I’ve seen pictures of Chinese young people wearing shirts with English phrases not exactly appropriate..A story I once read: An internationally-franchised company built a consumer product outlet in a small foreign country. The executives didn’t bother to much engage the locals in planning, and acted very superior all along the line..The store was built, and nobody came. The foreign owners couldn’t understand why. After a while, someone from another area came through asked why there was a big obscenity on the storefront. It turns out the name of the store was, um, “mother-lover” in the local language..Believe it or don’t.

I thought he was a Chinese Ringo Starr asking for his favorite song title.

Ok, I’ll say it. There a story of a guy that gets a tattoo in China of some phrase he wanted. 20 years or so later, he finds out it says “Coca Cola” in Chinese letters.

Reminds me of the Big Bang episode where Penny had the Chinese word for “Soup” tattooed on her rump.

Yes, I see some people do get it, but it is kind of a multiple layer joke, unless someone has an oriental friend or speaks a southeast Asian language they might not get the underlying switch where a lot of western folk get Kanji characters tattooed that don’t mean what they think it does. Kanji tattoos seem to be pretty popular in the last few years.

你只需要爱 is not 我采摘鼻子.

On a related note, just a few years ago MGM decided to build a new and bigger casino in Vegas. They made the focal point a giant lion’s head and you entered the casino by walking into the lion’s mouth. They couldn’t change the entry fast enough when they discovered that Asians would not enter the casino because they thought it was bad luck.

Yeah, this is obviously a comment on the illiterate use of Chinese characters on Westerners’ tattoos.

But I do remember vividly seeing a pleasant motherly Chinese woman with her family on the Great Wall wearing a t-shirt imprinted with the slogan, “Spit on ’em til they drown!”

He should have gone with the images.

ArfArf88: Most “Chinese” food was invented by Cantonese immigrants in San Francisco.There is a story of an “old China hand” (part of the western occupation of Shanghai between world wars) who learned Chinese well enough to break up over a sign declaring, “genuine American fortune cookies”.

Warped minds think alike!

@GwenWas the owners name Wan Hun Lo?

What I am amazed at is all the tattoos on folks. Recently had an applicant covered from fingertips to his face and head. Ex-military type. He said it was all special ops stuff about where he has been and what he is trained for. I thought I am an ex spec ops soldier myself. We were told not to mark ourselves. If I am holding hostages as a bad guy your military tattoos would give you away. I would shoot you first. That is why we did not mark ourselves. Blended in with the crowd. Jump you later when you turn your back thinking I am not dangerous.

“does this tattoo make my a$$ look big?”

At least he said " I think" so he was slightly less of a doofus.