Narita Express Yourself

"Spare prick"? Is that like King Missile's "detachable penis"?

In a city filled with native English speakers, JR somehow managed to screw up the English directions for the luggage locks on the updated Narita Express trains (which are really nice, incidentally). I can't even figure out how they made this particular mistake. The Japanese sentence is incredibly simple -- "if you forget your combination, your luggage will be returned to you at the final stop." Is there any dictionary in the world that lists "luggage" as "spare prick"?

Comments

[thomas]

It seems like the first two directives were translated using some incredibly bad internet translation engine, while the last two were not. Lazy translator? Anyway, it's kind of boggling.

[braincelljupiter]

Tipness Gyms also translate "luggage" or "belongings" into "spare prick."

http://braincelljupiter.blogspot.com/2009/03/extra-appendages.html

[MattAlt]

Thanks for the tip...ness?

That is really odd. Now I am seriously curious as to what the origin of this translation might be. I'll look into it and post whatever I find here.

[Simon]

This is indeed intriguing. Searching with Google, I found this site - http://www.rstousen.co.jp/ It's a sauna in Ueno.

If you look at the 'Information for Foreigner' PDF, it has the words - "I will keep it's spare prick before check-in" on the last page. Perhaps someone can understand the Japanese original text next to it?

Plus the warning that - "I will refuse coming to a library where there are those who get dead drunk and hard."