I guess that would help with their unemployment problem. :haha:
:lol: quite literally, because in Japan "bar code" refers to one of these:
[ATTACH]25332[/ATTACH]
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.
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?
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...
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?
MAD magazine used to put funny comments around the UPC when they first started putting one on their cover.
Gotta love Mad magazine and Alfred E. Newman. Now THAT was art.
The first bar code was used in my hometown:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/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!
