Tricky Tiger Saloon

Reader Aylwin emails from Canada:

"I spotted this shirt on display last weekend at The Bay (a Canadian department store chain) at Bloor & Yonge in Toronto..."

The character 救 on the upper left corner means "rescue" or "save". According to my Hong Kong native friend Angela, the four characters 有型靚仔 in the Chinese seal (or Japanese hanko) is a Cantonese slang about cool good looking guy. 有型 literally means "[to] have shape" or "shapely", and 靚仔 means "good looking guy". In Mandarin Chinese, 帥哥 is used to describe a good looking guy.

The only conclusion I can draw from the shirt is that "in order to be a cool good looking guy at the Tricky Tiger Saloon, one must rescue a tiger from a white wife-beater tanktop".

Gamer Shirt

http://www.comboclothing.com/

From reader Sarah:

"Hi. Been watching hanzismatter.com for a while now, and as a Japanese education major must admit that I have giggled uncontrollably on more than one account.

Anyway, just thought I'd pass on this beauty my boyfriend sent my way. The actual website has 先週 listed as meaning "gamer". Even my ex-roommate, who only took a craptacular Japanese class for two years, had to giggle and comment on how 'close' 先週 is to "gamer" (can you feel the sarcasm just leaking from that?).

http://www.comboclothing.com/game.jpg

Enjoy."

I have seen "gamer" been translated as ゲーマー in Japanese but never 先週.

先週 [せんしゅう] last week/the week before