T-shirt messages that simply don't 'feel fine, very much!'
One afternoon when I was living in Shenzhen, a friend and I went to a popular shopping district filled with Chinese clothing stores. We were on a mission: to buy the funniest Chinglish T-shirts we could find.
Anyone who's visited China has probably seen these shirts. The botched English messages on them range from right idea, wrong execution ("Practice Makes Unexpected"), to completely nonsensical ("Play The Music and F*** My Brain Off"), to highly inappropriate, given the situation ("I'm Too Sexy For My Cat," once seen on a fellow teacher at a primary school).
Sometimes, the shirts will simply contain random strings of letters, forming words yet to be introduced to the English language. Others will have actual words that, when combined together, make no logical sense. As a joke, I once bought two friends back home in America a shirt for their newborn daughter that read "Bear of Rush: The Happiness" beneath a picture of a teddy bear.
Area businesses charged up over Northern Pass transmission proposal
The groundswell of residents and environmental groups opposing the proposed Northern Pass transmission project includes a cross-section of businesspeople who say that they have as much -- or more -- to lose as anyone if the $1.1 billion project is approved.
"This would absolutely destroy the tourism business up here, without a doubt," said Wayne Charron, who owns a gift shop and mini-mart in Campton, among other businesses. "People don't want to float down the river looking at high-tension wires and towers."
These businesspeople -- many of them outspoken and very public in their opposition to the proposal - have thrown their support behind the grassroots campaign against Northern Pass, which would snake 180 miles through northern and central New Hampshire.
Businesses have lent their support to the various groups formed to oppose the project -- the No Northern Pass Coalition, Live Free or Fry and Bury the Northern Pass -- all with the shared goal of keeping Northern Pass away from the New Hampshire landscape.
(American Eagle is a popular clothing brand in the US - to the best of my knowledge, they haven't yet expanded into the real estate market). But my favorite purchase was a pink babydoll tee emblazoned with the grammatically incorrect phrase "She's
