Maybe Black Tower Ought To Try This?

Interesting post here by Adrian Chen at Gawker.com http://gawker.com/5874304/japanese-department-store-may-want-to-look-up-the-word-fucking?sidebar_promotions_icons=testingon&utm_expid=66866090-67.e9PWeE2DSnKObFD7vNEoqg.2&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com      

 I wonder....did Mr Dilworth offer to translate-?

Apologies to the Sensitive in advance.

Japanese Department Store May Want to Look Up the Word 'Fucking'

If only we could have sat in on the meeting where the marketing team for this Osaka department store came up with the idea for their "Fuckin' Sale," spotted early this month by a reader of Jake Adelstein's Japan Subculture blog.

-There should be some cool English words on these signs.
-How about "Fuckin' Sale?"
-What's that mean?
-Fuckin' means, like, really good. So it's a really good sale.
-And there's no other meaning to "fuckin'? Nothing at all that might embarrass us on the internet? Remember what happened with our Save-a-Shit-Ton promotion…

Ahhh, now there is the follow up by Chen:

Mortified Japanese Department Store Cleans Up 'Fuckin Sale'

An Osaka department store's Fuckin Sale was one of the classic Engrish gaffes of our time. But the funny signs were quickly taken down after the internet freaked out about them.

Japanese Department Store May Want to Look Up the Word 'Fucking'

If only we could have sat in on the meeting where the marketing team for this Osaka department… Read more 

 

According to a post last Saturday by the Japan expat blog Super Happy Awesome, the store, Gallerie, caught wind of the global snicker in the final days of the Fuckin Sale:

the sale is still on until Monday, but I spoke with the people from Gallerie earlier today (hurray, my Japanese is getting better!) and apparently they've decided to take down the fuckin' signs.

They also apologized for any offense taken over their hilariously offensive sign.

Why apologize? Those signs brightened the days of countless miserable office workers here in the states.

Super Happy Awesome also discovered the real reason why there was a "fuckin sale" in the first place. Apparently fuckin is an unfortunate pun on fukubukuro—"lucky bags." It's a New Years tradition for Japanese retailers to put their overstock from last year into big grab bags and sell them at a discount. (We had hypothesized a foul-mouthed American chef brought fuckin to Japan's shores.)

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Dilworth's Osaka Brutal never predicted this!