For youthful lines, remember bile beans

Mmm, bile beans! I imagine them like a disgusting dark green version of jelly beans.
"A purely vegetable tonic-laxative"! Just what you need.

Rocket from a sardine can

I would love to know what on earth this means.

Kompas tiger cartoon

I don't know about you, but my mind added a sound track to the tiger on the microphone. It goes a bit like:
"Rrrrrrrraaaaaaaaoooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww!"

Square melons

Vocabulary

Clearly I shouldn't be allowed two blogs. I did warn you it was going to slow, OK?
Here are some gloriously random vocabulary selections from a Thai (or maybe Cambodian?) newspaper - Chinese to Thai to English.

A mighty teapot

From Indonesian newspaper "Kompas", 13th September 1997, the biggest teapot I've ever seen.



A guy at work (not a native speaker of Indonesian) provided the following translation of the caption:

Pouring tea
A stylish waiter pouring tea, like in the picture. The nozzle of its mouth eclipses the length of an adult man's arm. Head of the Designer Tower, Shanghai and also Jakarta Tower (that has been built in the centre), Jiang Huangcheng (right), laughs looking at the scene.

Never outgrows your size

From "The Hindu" newspaper, January 18th, 1976, I bring you the Tantex Man: