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Old 05-20-2012, 03:21 PM
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Best Engrish item I've seen

I went to London yesterday and in one of the gift shops in the Trocadero, found a notebook, with the following profound poem on it:
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Love Is...

Sunshine 3cm 3cm air
Blocking in front of like a glass
Left to get in your face only footprints

Walk straight ahead from the finish
Has been no recall to the back
I am very pleased to have the mind

To help trapped by their own
My arms all the warm air
Into the wind and you can not meet
My mind evaporate into cloud

Then become rain, but you want to rain
Hiding in a quiet corner if you look back
Do not care
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Old 05-20-2012, 04:53 PM
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Hell, makes more sense than Gertrude Stein.
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Old 05-20-2012, 05:31 PM
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Love is hiding in a quiet corner if you look back. I like it!!!!
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Old 05-21-2012, 02:23 PM
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I'd love to know what it was supposed to mean if it had been translated properly - the first stanza looks like it ought to be something like

Sunlight reflecting from the window
Through the air
Inches its footsteps across your face

Anybody got any ideas about the rest (or indeed better ideas about the first)?
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Old 05-21-2012, 02:46 PM
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Sunshine 3cm 3cm air
Blocking in front of like a glass
Left to get in your face only footprints
All your base are belong to us
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Old 05-21-2012, 05:32 PM
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"3cm 3cm" was maybe supposed to be "inch by inch". That's not breaking the code though.
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Old 05-21-2012, 08:14 PM
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I like this one:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1200068.html

This was a pretty major department store chain here in Osaka and only last year.
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Old 05-21-2012, 08:34 PM
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"My mind evaporate into cloud"... too much cold medicine does that to me too...
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Old 05-21-2012, 09:01 PM
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Fuckin' sales, how do they work?
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