The japanese have more fun with their bar codes

dar512 · 11-06-2009, 11:30 AM

http://patriciavalentin.files.wordpr...rcodes-big.jpg

xoxoxoBruce · 11-06-2009, 11:53 AM

I guess that would help with their unemployment problem.

ZenGum · 11-07-2009, 07:44 AM

quite literally, because in Japan "bar code" refers to one of these:

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known in the west a a comb-over.
I believe that three Japanese conglomerates are training older employees to lose their hair in the form of the bar codes for the company's products, to increase efficiency in stock tracking.

TheMercenary · 11-07-2009, 09:25 AM

at zen.

richlevy · 11-07-2009, 09:45 AM

I love the surfer bottom right. The scorpion/zipper at top left is eye catching, but for the life of me I can't figure out what product that would be associated with - extreme crab removal medicine?

Clodfobble · 11-07-2009, 02:32 PM

Below each UPC is the product it came from. The scorpion came from a bottle of Zima. Not that that helps explain its meaning any...

xoxoxoBruce · 11-07-2009, 02:43 PM

I suppose it depends on what a scorpion represents to the japs.
Either Zima releases your inner scorpion, or Zima gets your stinger caught in the zipper?

wolf · 11-07-2009, 02:48 PM

MAD magazine used to put funny comments around the UPC when they first started putting one on their cover.

capnhowdy · 11-07-2009, 04:09 PM

Gotta love Mad magazine and Alfred E. Newman. Now THAT was art.

Shawnee123 · 11-07-2009, 04:16 PM

The first bar code was used in my hometown:

http://inventors.about.com/library/i...blbar_code.htm

I remember this. We had a "new girl" in class whatever year in elementary school, Liz, and she was telling us her dad was a manager at the new Marsh Supermarket, and was telling us about the barcode!

And wolf? The product was Wrigley's gum! We've come full circle!

11-06-2009, 11:30 AM	#1
dar512 Just too white and nerdy Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,778	The japanese have more fun with their bar codes http://patriciavalentin.files.wordpr...rcodes-big.jpg __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

11-06-2009, 11:53 AM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 32,457	I guess that would help with their unemployment problem. __________________ Excuse me Miss, does this handkerchief smell like chloroform?

11-07-2009, 07:44 AM	#3
ZenGum Putting the fist in pacifist. Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 5,326	quite literally, because in Japan "bar code" refers to one of these: known in the west a a comb-over. I believe that three Japanese conglomerates are training older employees to lose their hair in the form of the bar codes for the company's products, to increase efficiency in stock tracking. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

11-07-2009, 09:25 AM	#4
TheMercenary We must have you for dinner. Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 14,151	at zen. __________________ "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil Aphorism 146 "So you heard what you expected to hear, and assumed my intent." -LJ

11-07-2009, 09:45 AM	#5
richlevy Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 5,192	I love the surfer bottom right. The scorpion/zipper at top left is eye catching, but for the life of me I can't figure out what product that would be associated with - extreme crab removal medicine? __________________ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro - Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)

11-07-2009, 02:32 PM	#6
Clodfobble Gives sound advice Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 8,770	Below each UPC is the product it came from. The scorpion came from a bottle of Zima. Not that that helps explain its meaning any... __________________ My new cooking blog

11-07-2009, 02:43 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 32,457	I suppose it depends on what a scorpion represents to the japs. Either Zima releases your inner scorpion, or Zima gets your stinger caught in the zipper? __________________ Excuse me Miss, does this handkerchief smell like chloroform?

11-07-2009, 02:48 PM	#8
wolf chews 3 times on each side Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 17,203	MAD magazine used to put funny comments around the UPC when they first started putting one on their cover. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

11-07-2009, 04:09 PM	#9
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 5,415	Gotta love Mad magazine and Alfred E. Newman. Now *THAT* was art. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

11-07-2009, 04:16 PM	#10
Shawnee123 aaaaachoooo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: OH Posts: 15,923	The first bar code was used in my hometown: http://inventors.about.com/library/i...blbar_code.htm I remember this. We had a "new girl" in class whatever year in elementary school, Liz, and she was telling us her dad was a manager at the new Marsh Supermarket, and was telling us about the barcode! And wolf? The product was Wrigley's gum! We've come full circle! __________________ The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman US poet (1819 - 1892)

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