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December 9, 2005 12:03 AM
Broken: Human body toy packaging
Sam G writes in:
I was at the Dollar Tree store and saw this educational children's toy labeled, "Human Body."
Obviously, the toy was actually a frog. Perhaps they are encouraging the theory of evolution.
gmangw: The four-armed guy is actually a famous work by Leonardo Da Vinci, who spent a great deal of time studying the human body, like proportion and muscle structure.
And it has absolutely NOTHING to do with a rubber frog. The frog is see-through...is that a giant sperm inside him?
"The Four Legged Man"= Vitruvian Man
this pic = Vitruvian Man on Uranium- not broken, just before its time
P.S. leo did alot of study and disections of every living thing, humans anphibians, and animals- so this toy is replicating his anatomical study w/ fun froggy parts!
This is a great example of "Engrish". See the website Engrish.com for an explanation of how this ends up happening, but basically in other cultures, particularly in Japan, they often use English words to "look cool", virtually ignoring their meaning. Think all the people you've seen that have chinese symbol tattoos but don't speak Chinese.
_@_v - if the saying "you are what you eat" is true, that could be a french dude...
_@_v - at least one that eats more frogs than snails...
um, wouldn't it actually be wwtfsmd? way to make 'the' feel unimportant. you prolly just gave it a complex...
| um, wouldn't it actually be wwtfsmd? way to make
| 'the' feel unimportant. you prolly just gave it a
| complex...
Um, the whole point of acronyms is that words like "the" don't count.
i.e. PETA = People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Notice that "for", "the", and "of" aren't actually part of the acronym.
|Um, the whole point of acronyms is that words like
|"the" don't count.
|i.e. PETA = People for the Ethical Treatment of
|Animals. Notice that "for", "the", and "of" aren't
|actually part of the acronym.
actually, in acronyms like WTF and STFU, "The" is included
"In this episode of 'Human Body', an unsuspecting human "consumer" pics up the evil 'Green Frog' from the Dollar Tree store...Stay tuned to see what happens next!"
"in acronyms like WTF and STFU, "The" is included"
That's because they were invented and used by morons.
along w/ the giant sperm thing, if you look closely, you will see that the "sperm"'s head is actually a human head with a limbless stick body. Darwin's Theory was true!!!!!! LOL!!!
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like the dude with 4 arms would have been more accurate.
fantastic. gotta show that to a biology teacher.
Posted by: gmangw at December 9, 2005 12:29 AM