The japanese have more fun with their bar codes

dar512 · 11-06-2009, 10:30 AM

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

xoxoxoBruce · 11-06-2009, 10:53 AM

I guess that would help with their unemployment problem.

ZenGum · 11-07-2009, 06:44 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, 08:25 AM

at zen.

richlevy · 11-07-2009, 08:45 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, 01:32 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, 01:43 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, 01:48 PM

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

capnhowdy · 11-07-2009, 03:09 PM

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

Shawnee123 · 11-07-2009, 03:16 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!

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xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I guess that would help with their unemployment problem. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	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.

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richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	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? __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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11-07-2009, 01:43 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	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? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	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

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11-07-2009, 03:16 PM	#10
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	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! __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

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