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Photo: Badger 23 [Flickr] – via Miss Cellania

No, "Turd Baby" isn’t just a pejorative (look it up at Urban Dictionary, if you must) it is a store in Danshui, Taipei, Taiwan, selling stuff out of little vending machines! It certainly has a unique name!

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Photo of this real store in Itaewon, South Korea, was snapped by Neatorama reader Misha McMurtray [Flickr] – Thanks misha!

Talking ’bout loving words, Jonathan Beaton compiled a list of Dictionary.com’s word of the day for Valentine’s Day from 2000 to 2008. For example:

2006: Spoony \SPOO-nee\, adjective:
1. Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental.
2. Foolishly or sentimentally in love.

2007: Beau ideal \boh-ay-DEEL\, noun;
plural beau ideals:
A perfect or an idealized type or model.

2008: Amative \AM-uh-tiv\, adjective:
Pertaining to or disposed to love, especially sexual love; full of love; amorous.

Link – Thanks Jonathan!

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Emily and Joshua of peer-see blog found the reason why Engrish is so prevalent in China: the poor Chinese kids never had a chance to begin with! Just look at these ABC picture blocks they used to teach English.

Link (The last one is precious!) – Thanks Leah McPherson!

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Found at Flickr user skootter01, who wrote:

In Korea you can see some strange signs, and this is one of the funniest I’ve seen. This little shop is located along a little street full of furniture stores in Uijeongbu, near Seoul. My guess is that they just pulled something random off of an Internet search engine that somehow related to wood furniture.

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Yes, that’s a real restaurant. The Thunderbird Restaurant is in East Zion, Utah. The founder, Jack Morrison, spelled home made as “ho-made” back before the word "ho" got its current meaning.

Found at our pal Dan Piraro’s new blog (he knows all about pies!): BizarroBlog

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