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Coligny wrote:Fukucup... It a new Tenga model ?
Taro Toporific wrote:Coligny wrote:Fukucup... It a new Tenga model ?
Nope.
Fukucup(tm) has been the official drink of the FG Forum since 2006.
Russell wrote:Taro Toporific wrote:Fukucup(tm) has been the official drink of the FG Forum since 2006.
So Taro, where can I buy those?
omae mona wrote:Russell wrote:Taro Toporific wrote:Fukucup(tm) has been the official drink of the FG Forum since 2006.
So Taro, where can I buy those?
Oh no... the maker seems to have discontinued the product. At least I can't find it on their home page anymore: (http://www.fukumitsuya.com/fukumasa/index.html is the link I posted years back...).
On the other hand, some store from Ishikawa prefecture seems to have it available on Yahoo Shopping:
http://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/konchikitai/fukucup-kuro.html. I'm a little bit suspicious the stuff's been sitting on the shelf for a while, though.
Russell wrote:
It's not that I want to drink it anyway, but it is a nice decoration on my shelf.
Coligny wrote:Must admit that the 'stupid' part is more and more justified...
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Coligny wrote:Must admit that the 'stupid' part is more and more justified...
Oh, the irony....
omae mona wrote:Fukushima Industries got word of the global media attention that followed the publicity here at FG. In addition to issuing a boring explanation and apology letter, they've re-rendered Fukuppy in katakana, so we barbarians can't make fun of it any more.
Behold, Fukuppy reborn:
omae mona wrote: Was this a Fukup? Or did they decide that after the initial media attention, the public would get bored and they could go back to their original plan?
Here's the Wayback Machine capture of their page on October 20, 2013, with the English mascot name gone and a PDF apology letter written in English:
https://web.archive.org/web/20131020164 ... ima.co.jp/
The apology letter is now offline also (the URL doesn't work anymore).
("apology letter")
Fukushima Industries Corporation
October 15, 2013
On the naming of our corporate mascot
It seems that the transliteration of the name of our corporate mascot into the English alphabet has been mistakenly associated with some unsavory words by people living in English speaking countries, or some content on the Internet may have led to misunderstandings. We apologize profusely for having caused concern and misunderstanding among a great many people...
<snip>
... name is derived from a combination of the "Fuku" in the company name--Fukushima--with the "-ppy" in the word "happy," which is part of our corporate identity as a: "Happiness Creation Company."
With respect to naming, we will continue to consider how the name should be transliterated as well as the name itself.
web.archive.org/web/20131020170037/http://www.fukusima.co.jp/character/pdf/131016.pdf
omae mona wrote: Was this a Fukup? Or did they decide that after the initial media attention, the public would get bored and they could go back to their original plan?
Taro Toporific wrote:Fun Fukups like Fukuppy were quite common when I used to do product naming at Hitachi. They'd send me a Fukuppy-like name---I'd reject it---Three months later they'd send me a patent to check that had the rejected name on it.
For example, for years I had to work on a software product that purposely named "GRABAS(tm)."
Even though I explained to management that GRAB-ASS is the only way an English speaker could pronounce the name and think of it, the Japanese demanded to using the name (grabas means "helpful" in an obscure dialect in Kyushu).
Another great software product name my bosses demanded to use was HIMAN(tm). The bosses were laughed of the stage at the software’s introduction at a international conference in Switzerland because HIMAN is pronounced hymen. The giggling started when one of the butthead bosses at the conference near the start of his speech when he read: "We then made a HIMAN(hymen) breakthrough…"
Samurai_Jerk wrote:If you're tired of pink tacos or fur burgers, there's always pizza.
omae mona wrote::banana: Was this a Fukup?
Taro Toporific wrote:Subaru's latest model...unveiled at the 2020 Singapore Motor Show, is called the Forester Ultimate Customised Kit Special edition. Or, for short, the FUCKS edition.
omae mona wrote:...I wonder if that's intentional. ... I am going to go over to the new shopping complex in Shibuya and ponder this while sipping my daily bubble tea.
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