Those characters actually mean something, you know…

I’m sure that this will go up on whatever website is the Chinese-language equivalent of Engrish.com:

The Max Planck Institute is one of the world’s leading science and technology research groups, and boy does the Germany-based group ever have egg on its face.

It turns out that the latest issue of its flagship journal has China as its focus. The journal’s cover bears what the editors thought were Chinese characters for an elegant classic poem.

But the Chinese characters are really an ad from early in the last century for some sort of strip club offering girls.