Asian Pacifier

[robin_d_laws]

Like most people I have a number of character flaws and am willing to cop to some of the minor ones.

To name one, I have on occasion succumbed to the vanity of personal taste. If I know about something cool before others do, my intellectual vanity swells. For example, while watching Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers, I felt smugly pleased with myself

Comments

[jbru]

Heck, I'd almost let that slide as "Asian Pacificv," a strange but perhaps understandable slip of the pen when enthused. But then you get to the next line....

Is that Merlion taste? MerJion taste? Yer/ion taste?

[flemmings]

I'm trying to turn it into a g but it isn't happening...

(for the TO-domiciled, where is this? I'm tempted to try.)

[robin_d_laws]

North side of Dundas between Beverley and Spadina. Report back.

[muskrat_john]

I find it even more amusing when such inffractions are caused by native speakers.

A lovely woman who used to cut my hair had a computer-printed sign: "Personal consolations available..."

[muskrat_john]

Nope. My keyboard just had a tendancy to stick and double-type some letters...

[tlatoani]

I'm going to guess that it's a Singapore-inspired restaurant, and the word is indeed Merlion. So that bit at the bottom is probably meant to say "Merlion Restaurants" and "Taste it, you love it" side by side.

[memento_mori]

Obviously the "Seacat" from D&D is an homage to the Merlion.

Take that, Mearls! Seacat rules!

[greatest_twitch]

Just yesterday I walked past a (Parisian) Internet cafe with a sign in the window saying, 'ENGLISH SPOKEN. WELKOME'.

Chuckled at that.

[richardthinks]

following princeofcairo's "Tim Powers Game," I'd say this is clearly a coded message to Merlion (or very specifically-aimed marketing)...

...Merlion in this case being either the sea creature noted above, Susan Cooper's Merryman Lyon or a sly reference to Merlin's alleged Yssian origins, or choose all three for trisociative fun!