
 Originally Posted by 
cripesamighty
					
				 
				Years ago at uni, a a girl walked past with some Chinese characters tattooed on her shoulder. My Singaporean friend looked at me and said - why would a girl tattoo the word 'Petrol' on her shoulder....
			
		 
	 
 Not exactly new, this sort of error - a recent Antique Roadshow item appraised was a very elegant silver teapot, made in England in the eighteenth century, and decorated with a large Chinese character on the side, as was fashionable at the time - the word 'top', and engraved upside down!
John
				
			 
			
		 
			
				
			
			
				John
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1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
			
			
		 
	
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