zenlike koans I have seen emblazoned on t-shirts worn by hong kong people

2 ive seen IRL recently:

UNDER PROMISE
OVER DELIVER

and

BUYiNG FOOD
iN A CAFETiREiA

(all i's dotted with hearts)

THE
PERILS
OF
KEEPING
IT REAL

A MAN FALLS
IN LOVE
WITH HIS
EYES AND A
WOMAN WITH
HER BODY

haha!

Can anyone on ilx speak Russian?

LOVE
WHERE U
LIVE

I remember seeing:

SNOW GOLF
THIS IS IT?

in Kunming.

That… actually makes sense to me.

SNOW GOLF
THIS IS IT?

Yeah, like snow golf is the new cool sport so you go play and then it sucks and you're like, "This is it?" Maybe just because that's how I felt the one time I played frisbee golf. Plus I bet snow golf sucks.

COPULATION
it is mating season
[cartoon of two smiling dogs in the act]

I have seen a lot more of these since I stopped keeping track but one that's stuck in my head is

IT SIMPLY REPEATS

which is just a humbling reminder, for anything

^^much more in line w/ thread title

also saw a shirt that simply said "GOOD POINT" - I would buy that shirt, and wear it, and just stand around next to people

otm!

http://i.imgur.com/D2OcD.png

I want a GOOD POINT shirt!!!

get in line

srsly

http://rlv.zcache.com/get_in_line_tshirt-p235458959142148553qiab_400.jpg

http://rlv.zcache.com/srsly_tshirt-p235564908377856772q3vv_152.jpg

I made this one for my lady:
http://i52.tinypic.com/1079nww.jpg

the saddest part abt dayo leaving hong kong is i don't get to hear abt these shirts no more

Feel like this thread is like the counterpoint to those websites showing all the nonsensical chinese character tattoos.

http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/

INFINITY
a sound to continue eternally
existence to
attract
•ATTENTION•
Words to change
the world
"Famous"

THE VELVET
UNDERGROUND
& NICO
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln2lglqbnb1qk2xnco1_500.jpg

ANDY WARHOL

ha thats from http://accidentalchinesehipsters.tumblr.com/ isnt it

http://i.imgur.com/HAd85.jpg

x-posted to people who have figured out how to live imo

http://i.imgur.com/3UPeK.jpg

idg this one. who's uncle stanley? st. george?

― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 14:47 (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

guessing it is stanley ho!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Ho

Thanks to this thread I spent a lot of my day in Beijing looking at people's t-shirts...mostly aspirational koan boilerplate such as

MORE RESPECT
LESS ATTACK

and

SATE
ROCK AND ROLL MUST

but I quite liked

EMILY DICKINSON
I OBSERVED PEOPLE!

KISSING
MY LOVER.
I LIKE IT.

(on a 13 year old girl, the whole shirt was covered in hearts)

In class today:

NO LAY
NO PLAY

are you working in asia seandalai??

here is the text of the awesome one that dayo in his awesomenesss brought back from HK for me:

I peeped you on
the phone
6697-1908
and everybody wanna
come back to that body
All you need is Love
[picture of old-timey velocipede}
time classic
It's just timeless love

and there is a picture of a guy standing in front of a telephone booth and holding his woolen hat-bedecked head

xp - I'm in Harbin, China for a week teaching at a summer school for PhD students here.

REBEL YELL
FOR HUGS

HAVE
FASHION
DRESS
WORK

BETTER GIRLFRIEND
BETTER LIFE

Other dominant sociofashion phenomenon I've noticed: couples wearing matching t-shirts (identical or complementary).

HAPPINESS
IS
IMPRESSIVE

Appropriate closer to my time in China:

BE GENTLE
TO THE
YOUNG

DRESSING
up is good
ETIQUETTE

^^feeling this one

these all sound like rick ross lyrics

omg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr4v32i8SI1qk2xnco1_500.jpg

i lol'd out loud