Thursday, August 07, 2008

You Bastard

From this post.

Ultimately, five cartoon figures (an Olympic record) emerged, representing a fish, a panda, a Tibetan antelope, a swallow and the Olympic flame. Their two-syllable names, when lined up correctly, combine to spell out “Beijing welcomes you” in Chinese.  … Beijing residents created their own Fuwa—a duck, a dragonfly and a taxi—whose names spell out “bastard” in Beijing slang.

Here I proudly present the Beijing Fuwa, which spell “bastard” in Beijing slang.

The first characters, bei jing huan ying ni, mean “Beijing Welcomes You.” The final three characters, the duck, dragonfly, and taxi, mean ya ting de, or “bastard” in Beijing slang. So this more or less means “Beijing welcomes you, you bastard”

That’s awesome.