I thought bible tripe was an actual thing, depending on the cut of the stomach.

Yeah its those weird leathery white ribbons with nubs on them that kind of has the texture of calamari. I often get that with my pho.

What the Pho? I've looked it up before just because I was curious about the etymology and all I could ever find are things like reviews calling the Pho "heavenly" or weird religious websites.

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The weirdest one I've seen is this store front called "Husky or Maltese Whatever" It's a place that apparently serves hot dogs and little else but is never open. The women owns a few creperies downtown and I guess just needed a bigger home base. The owners didn't speak English all that well and asked her what she wanted on the sign: I guess she has a Maltese, but just said "Husky or Maltese, Whatever." So that's what they did. As far as I know the place is now officially closed but the sign remains. I really want that sign.

There was also a Chinese place called Hung Far Low and they had this big sign in Chinatown, and one day it either fell at half mast or was about to fall completely, can't remember so they took it down. The owner, an American who owns a number of restaurants called Pok Pok bought the place and started a campaign to put the sign back up after he bought the property, calling it the "Re-erect Hung Far Low." Sign's back up, and all's well in the universe.

So yes, John Oliver, you're right. I do live in a cartoon. And a dick joke.

Wasn't that an "official" knockoff shirt? I know I've seen that somewhere.

The place I saw it at was at some open air shop in Sapporo. Our group was supposed to stay in Tokyo but because of the subway bombings they posted us up in the Olympics village in Sapporo instead.

I collected a lot of Engrish when I was in Japan. It was really satisfying.