Lina Rosio

When I was making The Emperor’s New Screensaver #2, I wanted to find out what Lina Rosio meant so I could use it for the title, so I Googled it.

The first 4 hits were places selling the poster where I learned it was by someone named Choppy and I guessed he was French. Tried plugging in Lina Rosio in a translation tool, French to English, with no luck, came back as lina rosio. Hmmm, sounds Spanish. A Spanish to English try netted the same results. Trying Portuguese, I found out Lina means linen, but nothing for Rosio. Lina is a Chinese name that means beautiful woman. I googled for rosio and that lead me to the Urban Dictionary. Lina – Nice beautiful young woman and Rosio – A girl that is funny, cool, sexy, and everything else. She also can be a firecracker if you get in her face to long. Somehow I think this poster predates the UD, maybe it’s definitions have been influenced by this poster? Or by the Chinese? Giving up, I just titled the image Lina Rosio.

Back to Google, my Miata gallery with the image was at #9. At number 5 was a fellow’s Flickr page of the same poster but in a different town in SC. His photo came from Walhalla about 60 miles northwest of Abbeville where mine was taken. Right after my number nine return was the Flickr RSS feed of someone named Genipher who has an image of the same poster and hers was taken in Abbeville too.