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Feb 06 2017 16 Comments

Tokyo squid-man

He’s not the egg-man. Nor indeed is he the walrus. Instead, he’s the wonderfully silly, smartphone resistant, squid-man.

tokyo squid man

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  1. Al says

    2/6/2017 at 1:06 pm

    Ha, that’s so random! One of those looks again too! 😉

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    • Lee says

      2/6/2017 at 7:20 pm

      It was a surprise to see him. Clearly he was surprised to see me too!

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  2. Ken Caldicott says

    2/6/2017 at 10:22 pm

    Of course, anyone with a squidhead on is going to be surprised if anyone looks at him! Saw your mendicant friar in Ueno yesterday but the Peruvian pipe band had gone, thankfully.

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    • Lee says

      2/6/2017 at 10:51 pm

      Haha, exactly!

      Nice to know he’s still there as usual. And maybe even better to hear (or should that be not hear?) there was no unnecessary accompaniment .

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  3. cdilla says

    2/7/2017 at 5:10 am

    You never know what you’re going to see when you’re out and about. Nor what words you will happen upon whilst traversing the interwebs. Mendicant – now my word of the week. Using it in context in a work email will be a challenge.
    The weirdness continues with the line of road cones infiltrated by a cone of an entirely different sort. And the halloween bowl… or was it a photograph from a few months back?

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    • Lee says

      2/7/2017 at 9:16 am

      No, you really don’t. Definitely one of the beauties of living in a big city.

      So many times cones have ruined a photo for me. They are seemingly everywhere, and their bright colours can often be too distracting. Thankfully not so bad in this shot. And yeah, well spotted. An older photo that I’d edited and then totally forgotten about.

      Good luck with the email!

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  4. d.minnis says

    2/7/2017 at 6:51 am

    I must live in the dullest town in the world (Arlington, Texas)…I NEVER see sights like this. I don’t know how you find them, or if they find you.

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    • Lee says

      2/7/2017 at 9:18 am

      I’d like to think they find me, but I cover a lot of locations and miles, so perhaps a bit of both.

      For such a conservative country, Japan is also wonderfully eccentric, so sights like this are almost commonplace. Well, perhaps not commonplace, but at least not totally unexpected.

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  5. john says

    2/7/2017 at 10:26 am

    Is he waiting to be beamed up to the squid squad or just taking a quick cephalopod selfie?
    It has certainly put me in a B movie mood.

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    • Lee says

      2/7/2017 at 4:02 pm

      Both, hopefully.

      Cephalopod selfie. Wonderful. Wish I’d thought of that!

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      • john says

        2/7/2017 at 11:48 pm

        …with his versatile cephalophone.
        (you got the ball rolling with the photo, and he, with the headgear choice!)

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        • Lee says

          2/8/2017 at 4:23 pm

          You’ve totally got me on this. Tried desperately to come up with a calamari related pun, but failed miserably…

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          • john says

            2/11/2017 at 12:37 am

            Hmm…. Call a Yuki? Call a Miho? Call a Mari?
            (I suspect I have too!).

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            • Lee says

              2/11/2017 at 10:35 am

              Very, very good!

  6. Hans Ter Horst says

    2/7/2017 at 10:14 pm

    Haha, so weird, only in Japan 😀

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    • Lee says

      2/8/2017 at 4:23 pm

      He’s definitely quite a character.

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