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

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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

Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Monday, 1 August 2011 12:14 (twelve years ago) link

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!

scandally (seandalai), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 11:59 (twelve years ago) link

KISSING
MY LOVER.
I LIKE IT.

( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Saturday, 6 August 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link

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

( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Saturday, 6 August 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link

In class today:

NO LAY
NO PLAY

naked human pyrami (seandalai), Saturday, 6 August 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link

are you working in asia seandalai??

我爱你 G. Weingarten (dayo), Saturday, 6 August 2011 12:34 (twelve years ago) link

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

dell (del), Saturday, 6 August 2011 13:38 (twelve years ago) link

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

naked human pyrami (seandalai), Saturday, 6 August 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link

REBEL YELL
FOR HUGS

naked human pyrami (seandalai), Sunday, 7 August 2011 06:57 (twelve years ago) link

HAVE
FASHION
DRESS
WORK

naked human pyrami (seandalai), Sunday, 7 August 2011 06:57 (twelve years ago) link

BETTER GIRLFRIEND
BETTER LIFE

naked human pyrami (seandalai), Sunday, 7 August 2011 06:58 (twelve years ago) link

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

naked human pyrami (seandalai), Sunday, 7 August 2011 06:59 (twelve years ago) link

HAPPINESS
IS
IMPRESSIVE

( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link

Appropriate closer to my time in China:

BE GENTLE
TO THE
YOUNG

naked human pyrami (seandalai), Friday, 12 August 2011 04:25 (twelve years ago) link

DRESSING
up is good
ETIQUETTE

 (gr8080), Thursday, 18 August 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link

^^feeling this one

 (gr8080), Thursday, 18 August 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link

these all sound like rick ross lyrics

Psyduck is My Spirit Animal (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 19 August 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link

omg

steens furiously (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 19 August 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...

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

⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 9 October 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link

i lol'd out loud

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 10 October 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link

REBEL YELL
FOR HUGS

haha i would wear this

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 10 October 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link

i want to go back to hong kong just to find more of these

Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Monday, 10 October 2011 08:32 (twelve years ago) link

TOUCH IS
OVERRATED!
USE YOUR
EYES!

⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 23 October 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link

I want a t-shirt with that picture of the dude wearing the "Afrocentric" t-shirt

wrestlingisreal420 (crüt), Sunday, 23 October 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link

front:

ALCA TRAZ
CITY

back (under an image of a giant fist with a mounted horseman perched on top of it, carring a flag):

THE TEENAGE
RIOT

⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 29 October 2011 00:52 (twelve years ago) link

Saw an old lady recently wearing one that said YOUR BOYFRIEND SNORES

Darin, Saturday, 29 October 2011 03:37 (twelve years ago) link

LOL

They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Saturday, 29 October 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link

BEMORE
SUPER
FABBY

⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 31 October 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link

CORAL
REEFER

⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 31 October 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link

FRONT:

BEAMS
what is to be really worthy?

BACK:

EXPRESSION
PERSON

⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 3 November 2011 03:34 (twelve years ago) link

I feel like you could turn a tidy profit selling a line of

I'M HUNGOVER
I WISH I WAS DEAD

shirts

JoeStork, Thursday, 3 November 2011 04:44 (twelve years ago) link

five months pass...

LOOKING
AT LIFE
IN A
STRANGE
ROOM

Rosie 47 (ken c), Thursday, 12 April 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link

nice one!

andrew m., Thursday, 12 April 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link

THE
EVIDENCE
TO
FRIENDSHIP

♆ (gr8080), Sunday, 15 April 2012 07:15 (twelve years ago) link

PLAY LOTTO
not me

♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:50 (twelve years ago) link

CURIOSITY
TAKES US
TO THE
NEW WORLD

♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 19 April 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link

JOY DERIVED
FROM
DISCOVERY
AND
CREATION

♆ (gr8080), Friday, 27 April 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...

front:

TRUST
NO
DICK

back:

DICK

rent, Saturday, 23 June 2012 12:36 (twelve years ago) link

lol!

thread is p much urine (how's life), Saturday, 23 June 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago) link

hahahaha

♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 23 June 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

THE SONG OF THE BIRDS!!

♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

friend currently in korea posted this one on facebook:

Front: NYPD.
Back: Aleister Crowley Thoth Tarot Card Reading.

arby's, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link

Not in Hong Kong, but just now in Southern England, a morbidly obese guy wearing a T-shirt with 'CALL MY AGENT' written on it.

no-one seemed to hear him so he leafed through a magazine (snoball), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

FOLLOW
COOL WIND
AND THE BLUE SEA

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link

it feels v hawaii

very sexual album (schlump), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 00:14 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

THE KEY TO HAPPINESS
IS SOMETHING TO LOVE
SOMETHING TO HOLD
AND SOMETHING TO DO

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link

otm

barthes simpson, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link

COVER ME IN CHOCOLATE AND THROW ME TO THE LESBIANS

a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link

^ would wear.

nickn, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link

MY SPACE
is
YOUR SPACE
the fairytale has just begun

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link


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