Bar Secrets, Revealed

From the lovely and glamorous designer/translator/DadWagon-spouse Jean, comes the answer to yesterday’s bar riddle. The sign shown here was, in fact, a Father’s Day tribute, from the semi-sleazy bar Touch in Nanjing.

Here’s Jean’s translation of the billboard:

A father’s love is an unassuming love. It’s an emotion that can’t be defined. Only people who look closely will understand. People say a father’s love is like a mountain, because it’s the same as a mother’s love, which is unconditional. This Father’s Day, Touch Bar has gathered mysterious gifts to give to every stressed-out dad—and dad-to-be!

Spend $1000 you’ll get $500 styling gift card:
Spend $2000 you’ll get $1000 worth of gift box, and $398 beauty gift card;
All that and more at Touch Bar!

To which I say, let that be our collective goal before next Father’s Day in June 2012. Every “stressed-out dad” should make  a vow to spend $2,000 at their local pub, in order to unlock “mysterious gifts”. Let our love for liquor be like a mountain!

Published by Nathan

Nathan Thornburgh is a contributing writer and former senior editor at TIME Magazine who has also written for the New York Times, newyorker.com and, of course, the Phnom Penh Post. He suspects that he is messing up his kids, but just isn’t sure exactly how.

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