Hello Kitty Is Japan’s Cultural Envoy
HELLO Kitty is Japan’s “government envoy”, chosen to represent the country in China and Hong Kong.
Sanrio Co. President Shintaro Tsuji called Hello Kitty’s new appointment “an honor” and pledged to “work hard to attract many visitors” to the land of the creepy cat.
Hello Kitty first appeared on a plastic coin purse in 1974. It now infects some 50,000 products in 60 countries.
And be afraid. According to her official profile from Sanrio, Hello Kitty lives with her family in London…
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May 19th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
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chenier Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
JJ has rescued the master plan, whilst I was researching Carmen Miranda on Youtube; some remarkable performances, but I don’t think she ever managed to do the samba with fruit on her head whilst attached to a plane.
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There is, as they say, a first time for everything.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
JJ has rescued the master plan, whilst I was researching Carmen Miranda on Youtube; some remarkable performances, but I don’t think she ever managed to do the samba with fruit on her head whilst attached to a plane.
More than a hint of lurex, I think…
May 19th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
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JuneJohnson Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Stop panicking, I can knit, its one of my hobbies
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Hurray! So, vital statistics in a sealed envelope to June and it’s an end to The Woolly-Wing-Walzting Muskirteers’ Wardrobe Worries!
May 19th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
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chenier Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
But you can’t knit.
I can’t knit.
I don’t know whether Carmen Miranda could knit.
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I bet she can not.
I have to admit it, I am Baldrick to your Blackadder - so no more cunning plans for me.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Stop panicking, I can knit, its one of my hobbies
May 19th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
But you can’t knit.
I can’t knit.
I don’t know whether Carmen Miranda could knit…
May 19th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
The Muskirkteers could wear home-knitted sweaters with ‘A l’eau! C’est l’heure!’ oversewn across the embonpoint in something contrasting and with just a hint of lurex..
May 19th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
My compliments; that is untoppable…
May 19th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
“I wish I’d said that.”
“You will, Oscar, you will…”
May 19th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
It’s not mine, I have to admit - I wish it was, I wish it was ..
May 19th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
My compliments; that is untoppable…
May 19th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
… in the French Navy ..
A l’eau! C’est l’heure!
May 19th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Just as well Kitty isn’t a sailor…