# Hello Kitty **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 1999, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084 "1999-12-21T19:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Scarlet_Pimpernel)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/21 "1999-12-22T13:00:00Z")
ROTFLMAO!!! * * * Il vaut mieux gâcher sa jeunesse que de n’en rien faire du tout. – Georges Courteline ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/22 "1999-12-22T13:22:00Z")
Gr8kat: It’s in the Beaverton Mall, kinda near 26 & 217. One of those Sanrio stores I think. Though, they’re selling Pokemon there now as well. Or rather, they’re selling Pikachu… no one ever sells the other ones. * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) Computers have let mankind make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/23 "1999-12-22T13:40:00Z")
[http://kitty.sanrio.co.jp/english/characters/keroppi/kr04.html](http://kitty.sanrio.co.jp/english/characters/keroppi/kr04.html) Don’t forget that kats little frog bastard friend. I only know this because I have an ex who grew up in Taiwan. ---
**Author:** ![eden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f9b8f/32.png) [@eden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eden)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/24 "1999-12-22T14:16:00Z")
Hoo-hah! I got a Pikachu backpack from my coworker for Christmas! It doesn’t fit, since it’s meant for folks about thirty years younger than myself, but wow! ::hoping for some Hello Kitty:: * * * “it was caused by pokemons” -orangecakes ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/25 "1999-12-23T01:26:00Z")
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/26 "1999-12-23T05:44:00Z")
I don’t like to have to scroll from side to side. ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/27 "2000-01-25T19:27:00Z")
For all the Hello Kitty haters here: a small (well, relatively: about 700k) Shockwave movie entitled [“Hello Satan”](http://nebula.on.ca/frogcrisis/hello.html) (by Greg Hyland, creator of the incomparable Lethargic Lad). * * * …but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans! ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/28 "2000-01-25T19:31:00Z")
I’m sorry, Daniel, I really like you, but I’m going to have to kill you for causing the horizontal scroll. Just relax, I’ll make it as quick and painless as possible. Will someone hand me the chainsaw, please? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/29 "2000-01-25T20:56:00Z")
Daniel , despite his form of emoting, has it right. “Hello Kitty” = evil. They almost (I thought they had) went out of business for questionable business practices. Sure its cute, but so is “Barney” and both are straight from the devil. Go ask Satan. * * * “Solos Dios basta” . . . but a little pizza won’t hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Meow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Meow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meow)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/30 "2000-01-25T21:43:00Z")
I"m so pissed. I was staying in a motel for the last couple of days, and the damn maid STOLE my little stupid plastic hello kitty alarm clock! It’s actually my kid’s, which makes it even worse! I know i had it, too. the damn thing ticks like a bomb and kept me awake for the first couple of nights. And yeah, Japanese candy RULES. go to the local Japanse market if you really wanna have some great candy. Meow! ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/31 "2000-01-25T21:59:00Z")
**Daniel P Bostaph** , I agree with your sentiments, but OFF WITH YOUR HEAD for stretching out the page! I promise the rest of you, if this doesn’t stop, I’m gonna create a “Death to Hello Kitty” thread in the BBQ Pit! I swear, HK is part of Japan’s revenge for losing WW2! “Yes, you bombed our cities, but we will take control of the minds of your children with insipid, deathly cute characters like Hello Kitty and Pokemon! BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!” * * * \>\< DARWIN \> \_\_ **L\_\_\_L** ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/32 "2001-07-25T08:42:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by eden \* > \*\*Oh, since I don’t know anyone IRL, I can say…I actually like Hello Kitty stuff, even though I’m about eighteen times too old to admit it to my peers. > > They have a character called Badtz Maru, who I called Bad-Ass Chicken until I found out he’s a penguin. I love this character, he has this flat, sort of pissed-off look I find anomalous in the cutesy figurine world. > > \*\* Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/33 "2001-07-25T13:06:05Z")
I have (present tense) a pink Hello Kitty backpack. I actually use this backpack. I take this backpack in public. I wanted to get a “normal” (i.e. non-Hello Kitty) backpack, but my mother talked me out of it. **Silo** and **robgruver** have both seen this backpack, so they’re my witnesses. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/34 "2001-07-25T16:52:02Z")
I have a Hello Kitty checkbook cover. It’s pretty sad when they realized they could market the stuff for adults too…how many kids do you know with checking accounts? An old friend of mine did her whole room in Hello Kitty…she had the CD player, the cordless phone, the lamp, and a bedspread thing. She also had some sort of car orginizer to hang over the back of her car seat. It had pockets for all sorts of crap. It was beyond obsessive. On an added note, I find it very sad that the board is loading faster at 1 pm than it did last night at 3 am…what is this world coming to? ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/35 "2001-07-25T17:35:33Z")
mmm. Hello Kitty. I especially love the non-plasticky items. Like my Hello Kitty laquered chopsticks & chopstick rest with cherry blossom motif. There’s a khaki-glazed Chocoat noodle bowl that I lust after too in a store nearby. I’ve already discussed my Badtz-Maru lunchbox on the lunchbox thread. mmm… kitschy goodness. ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/36 "2001-07-25T17:42:09Z")
I have a deck of Hello Kitty Tarot cards. They rock! The Death and Devil cards are too cute. I could use a Hello Kitty backpack too, but here someone would probably mug me for it. HUGS! Sqrl ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/37 "2001-07-25T17:46:26Z")
I kinda like the Hello Kitty stuff, even though I just found out about it a few months ago. I don’t own any myself (Hiya, I’m a big spooky Goth but I have a shitload of pink and white cartoony cat stuff? I don’t think so.) My girlfriend, however, is a MAJOR collector. She has the coffee pot, boom box, misc. figurines, throw pillows and (best of all) the Hello Kitty toaster. She starts each day with two pieces of toast. The pieces have the logo burned into the bread after they finish. She greets each piece, before buttering with, “Helloooooo Kitty toast.” It’s how she starts her day, and I think it’s adorable. We’ve been going out almost four months. Can anyone see how I might have gotten introduced to this stuff and why I like it? Lastly, we have a Hello Kitty store in the Arizona Mills mall in Tempe, just outside of Phoenix. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/38 "2001-07-25T17:48:17Z")
The first time I saw anything Hello Kitty was in about 1974. I had a pen pal in Japan who sent some things. I enjoyed them then not realizing that they by the time I had kids, they’d be a cultural icon of sorts. To bad I don’t know where the little things are now. Abby ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/39 "2001-07-25T17:50:31Z")
OH, my gosh! I used to get this stuff all the time when I was little. I sometimes go to the Sanrio store, but not a lot. I now get it for my niece. She looks so cute with it, being that she is only three. The only prob is that while I thought it was cute when I was little, Hello Kitty is now sold by Target, too. I don’t like that one bit. Oh, well. ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084/40 "2001-07-25T19:00:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FallenAngel \* > \*\*(Hiya, I’m a big spooky Goth but I have a shitload of pink and white cartoony cat stuff? I don’t think so.) \*\* Aw, Goths can be warm and fuzzy, too! I think the very idea of a Goth having lots of Hello Kitty stuff is strangely endearing. \*\* > [@](#): > > Lastly, we have a Hello Kitty store in the Arizona Mills mall in Tempe, just outside of Phoenix. \*\* Which is indicative of what kind of mall it is, and why I avoid it, even though it’s close to my house. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/13084.md?page=3)