if you’ve seen this, you’re oldschool
ho! i haven’t seen one of these in a long time.
those of you who have been around for a while(geezers) will know what this is.
what the hell?
i came across this photo, and became all nostalgic. many an eatin’ establishments in japan and korea used to have one of these devices at each table, and it’s a great conversation starter, as well as a pretty good way to get rid of some coinage.
basically, you insert a coin and pull the slide, and out pops a fortune, or a horoscope, in this case. this one is interesting because it apparently vends a western horoscope, not the traditional rat, cow, rabbit and dragon kind.
speaking of which, i think it’s really unfair that in traditional asian zodiac, there’d be some cool-ass signs like the dragon and the tiger, yet there are retarded ones like the pig and the rat. why! why couldn’t they all be sorta neat animals, like the crane, badger, hawk, otter or an armadillo? hell, a dragon isn’t even a real animal. that’s so unfair.
um, if you are a rat, that is.
found on naver, uploaded by one mr. xmas.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:43 am
Saw one of these in Nagoya a couple years ago. Sadly, it was broken. I have no idea why the restaurant was keeping it on the table if it was broken, but it was there.