Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

Many think that Miffy is Japanese, because Sanrio's Hello Kitty and friends are rendered using a similar line style.

In an interview for the British paper The Daily Telegraph, Bruna expressed his dislike for Hello Kitty.

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The Hello Kitty trademark has spread globally ; Sanrio earned over $ 1 billion annually in sales outside of Japan, as of 2003.

Several Hello Kitty TV series, targeted towards young children, have been produced.

Hello Kitty is also the main character at the two Japanese Sanrio theme parks, Harmonyland and the indoor Sanrio Puroland.

Per official character profiles for Hello Kitty, her real name is Kitty White and she was born in the suburbs of London, England on November 1.

Hello Kitty is portrayed surrounded by a large family who all go by the last name White.

While Hello Kitty wears a bow on her left ear, Mimmy wears hers on the right.

He travelled with his parents and was away from Hello Kitty for a long time.

Charmmy Kitty is Hello Kitty's pet, a white Persian.

Hello Kitty also has a pet hamster named Sugar, who was a gift from Dear Daniel.

Yuko Shimizu, creator of Hello Kitty, in 2010

Sanrio decided to make Hello Kitty British because at the time when she was created, foreign countries, in particular Britain, were trendy in Japan.

In addition, Sanrio already had a number of characters set in the US and they wanted Hello Kitty to be different.

He first considered " Hi Kitty " before settling on " Hello " for the greeting.

Spokespeople for Sanrio have said that Hello Kitty does not have a mouth because they want people to " project their feelings onto the character " and " be happy or sad together with Hello Kitty.

Representatives for Sanrio have said they see Hello Kitty as a symbol of friendship, and they hope she will encourage friendship between people across the world.

There has been some suggestion that Hello Kitty has its origins in Maneki Neko, and that the name Hello Kitty itself is a back-translation of Maneki Neko, which means beckoning cat in English.

Arden was one of many actresses to take on the title roles in Hello, Dolly!

However, attempts to find appropriate short fiction companion pieces to adapt were unsuccessful and Hello Out There was never commercially released.

" He was nominated for a body of work that included Hello Tomorrow for Adidas, Lamp for IKEA, and Pardon Our Dust for The Gap.

* The Hercules Text ( 1986 ) ( a revised version was also published as part of Hello Out There )

He was also the self-styled king ( later dictator ) of Peasemoldia, a small slum area in north London just off the Balls Pond Road, together with his wife Buttercup ( Marsden ), whose catch phrase was " Hello cheeky-face!

Hello Kitty was originally marketed only to young girls.

In the 1990s the target market for Hello Kitty was broadened to include teens and grown ups as a retro brand.

By 2008, Hello Kitty was responsible for half of Sanrio's $ 1 billion revenue and there were over 50 000 different Hello Kitty branded products in more than 60 countries.

“ Kimora Lee Simmons for Hello Kitty ” was launched exclusively at Neiman Marcus prices ranging from $ 300 to $ 5000 Designed by Kimora Lee Simmons and launched as the initial collection.

The first animated television series was Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater which was 13 episodes long and aired in 1987.

The next, Hello Kitty and Friends, came out in 1993 and was also 13 episodes.

Hello Kitty's Paradise came out in 2000 and was 16 episodes.

Hello Kitty was also chosen by AH-Software to be the basis of the new Vocaloid to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sanrio.

Musti, a cat character created by Belgian cartoonist Ray Goossens, was also cited as an inspiration for both Miffy and Hello Kitty.

During the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, a poster of a Hello Kitty pre-paid debit card expanded to roughly 1 meter in length was displayed on the floor of the US Senate by Senator Byron Dorgan as a demonstration of extreme methods used by credit companies to attract " children 10 to 14 years of age ".

Before 1987, the show's theme song was the Hank Snow hit " Hello Love ".

It is designed to run under RDOS and prints the string “ Hello, world .” on the console.

The Hello Eco Living website designed by Killingworth based 21 Inspired was chosen as a showcase site for the 1. 2 release of the BuddyPress social network.

* Silver Wonder Press, Kirkwood designed cover for book by Lee Ranaldo, " Hello From the American Desert "

* Hello Hydration ™, designed to hydrate hair.

* D ' or's Prince Igor owned by Barbara Todd ( Zcerlov ) and bred by Andre Legere appears in the 1969 film, Hello Dolly!

Then, a major opportunity arose when Fox – buoyed by the returns from The Sound of Music ( 1965 ) – commissioned Kelly to direct Hello, Dolly!

" Hello world " is also used by computer hackers as a proof of concept that arbitrary code can be executed through an exploit where the system designers did not intend code to be executed — for example, on Sony's PlayStation Portable.

Several songs have been written in tribute to Joey Ramone, including " Hello Joe " by Blondie from the album The Curse of Blondie, " Don't Take Me For Granted " by Social Distortion, " Here's To You " by Minus3, " You Can't Kill Joey Ramone " by Sloppy Seconds, Joey by Raimundos, " I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone " by Sleater-Kinney, and " Joey " by The Corin Tucker Band.

The expressionist influence lasted throughout Whale's career, with Whale's final film, Hello Out There, praised by Sight & Sound as " a virtuoso pattern of light and shade, a piece of fully blown expressionist filmmaking plonked down unceremoniously in the midst of neo-realism's heyday ".

The simplicity of Python is demonstrated by its version of the classic " Hello world " program:

To the tune of a Susa march, they bid Japan " Please Hello " and are followed by a Gilbertian British Admiral, a clog-dancing Dutch Admiral, a gloomy Russian and a dandified Frenchman all vying for access to Japan's markets.

* In The Simpsons episode " Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder ," Homer dresses up like a Teletubby to entertain Maggie, remarking "... and I'm all man, in case you heard otherwise " in reference to claims by Jerry Falwell.

The given name " Harry " actually occurs in a short sequence in the book where the nameless hero is greeted by someone saying " Hello, Harry.

Groucho's songs, " Hello, I Must Be Going " and " Hooray for Captain Spaulding ", both written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, became recurring themes for Groucho through the years.

He would enter by saying, " Hello, anyone there?

It later became the basis for the hit 1964 musical Hello, Dolly !, with a book by Michael Stewart and score by Jerry Herman.

For example the following program displays " Hello World " by pushing the characters in reverse order onto the stack, then printing the characters in a loop which circulates clockwise through the instructions,,,,, and.

However, in that first-person novel, the secret agent is anonymous, although at one point in he is greeted by someone saying " Hello, Harry "; he later says, " Now my name isn't Harry, but in this business it's hard to remember whether it ever had been.