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21/06/08

Permalink 12:26:25 pm, by admin Email , 129 words   English (AU)
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Super Weapom(tm)!

SUPERWEAPOM

Going past a cheap store today, I picked up this howler of a chinese toyset. I just couldn't go past it. I put it on the same level as "All your base". As one might already know, translation in most of these toy companies goes to the least skilled english speaker in the company (as the rest of them are making deals to sell them.). This set epitomizes this "chinglish" perfectly and with much humour. Let me do go on about it.

What grabbed me first about this playset was its obvious miss-spelling of the title. "Super Weapom" Is this some sort of veiled insult to the British? Super We-a-Pom? Or is it just a case of a slipped finger on a computer keyboard? This question puzzles me greatly.

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