Retail Decoration and Engrish Photos

Posted January 24, 2010, 11:41 a.m.

Over the last several days I’ve taken some photos of random, funny stuff at local retailers and restaurants. Included below is a scary cardboard bear from Michael’s, two mannequins from Dulles Town Center Mall, and some good Engrish from a local Chinese restaurant Melissa and I frequent. Enjoy!

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

Have republics in practice been less addicted to war than monarchies? Are not the former administered by MEN as well as the latter?

They who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never arrive at truth, but follow vain desires. They who know truth in truth, and untruth in untruth, arrive at truth, and follow true desires.

I’ve never been tempted to take any of my companies public. Making choices is a lot easier when you have to answer only to yourself.

Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America.

The British Empire is typically characterized as an overwhelmingly negative force in history, but a comparison with the rival imperialism of Islam provides a corrective to this view.

‘Unmet needs’ are inherent . . . whether we have a capitalist, socialist, feudal, or other kind of economy. These [systems] are just different institutional ways of making trade-offs. . . .

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

The totalitarian states can do great things, but . . . they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or laborer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

I’m an American, and most of the time proud of it. Even when I am displeased with what my country is doing, I am still an American who is displeased.

Normal is the average of deviance.

Freud had a point. He was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him.

Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What’s the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

It is false and absurd to say that we should remain in error after we have discovered it.

For generations, it was a paradox that the Chinese and the Indians prospered almost everywhere around the world, except in China and India.

Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

If you can’t tell whether a simple plan or a complicated one will be the best, choose the simple one. If it’s a coin toss, you might as well do whatever is easiest.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

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