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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:18 PM
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It's Friday and almost that time again for ENGRISH!!!!!
Edited on Fri Feb-11-05 03:23 PM by LynneSin

ENGRISH



Enjoy....













To enjoy more Engrish: http://www.engrish.com

I'm crying because I'm laughing so hard!!
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dean_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:36 PM
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1. Are they......are they.......
....made of real puppy? :cry:

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to buy some Homo Stationary.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:38 PM
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3. And if they ARE real puppy . . .
where do they get the puppy pulp? :evilgrin:
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:57 PM
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23. You've seen the movie Fargo haven't you
:evilgrin:
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 04:01 PM
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26. Ewwwwww`
That's just bad :)
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:38 PM
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2. who wouldn't enjoy cocking their meat?
:o
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:39 PM
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5. Jyu-jyu baby!
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:38 PM
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4. My favorite shirt
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:43 PM
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9. My earliest memory of the Engrish site was this t-shirt gem
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:45 PM
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10. LOL
:wtf:
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:47 PM
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12. Hehehehe
Apparently "Spread Beaver" was actually a band in Japan, and this was one of their T-shirts.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:51 PM
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17. Bwahahahahahahahahahaha
That is funny in so many ways
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Zing Zing Zingbah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:40 PM
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6. I like the "tissues of puppy" picture.
It's just silly.
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yorkiemommie1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:42 PM
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7. i work in an esl adult school
and have to correct essays and tests. students even 'hear' the 'rs' and 'ls' differently. all i can say is that i'm glad i'm a native speaker!

Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
! ;present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) A buck does act kingly when many does are near.

15) A tailor who was a sewer fell down into a sewer pipe.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) My jaw got number after a number of injections.

19) Upon seeing that the painting had a tear, I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

MORE... WHY IS IT THAT......

There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine
in pineapple.

English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France
(Surprise!).

Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is
neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't
groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?

One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

Ship cargo by truck... BUT... send cargo by ship?

Noses run... BUT... feet smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a
wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which y! ou fill in a form by filling it

out, and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when lights are
out, they are invisible.

And as a last thought... Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?

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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:54 PM
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21. I know one answer!
Boxing rings were originally just a circle of people surrounding the two fighters. As boxing progressed and became more of a stadium sport, the rings were made square but still called rings.

TlalocW
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 04:00 PM
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25. Why do I park in the driveway and drive on the parkway
:shrug:
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:43 PM
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8. I want one of these:
:evilgrin:

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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:47 PM
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11. Ahem
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:48 PM
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15. BUAHAHAHAHAHAHA
LMFAO. Oh shit. I'm seriously trying not to laugh so loud the whole office comes down to see what the hell I'm doing.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:49 PM
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16. There is something strange going on in Japan
and that is the proof
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:48 PM
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13. Oh I do love that site!
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:48 PM
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14. I want a box of those "tissues of puppy"
I almost wet myself on that one
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:51 PM
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18. I wonder if they'd still wear some of these shirts if they knew what they
actually meant:

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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:53 PM
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19. I really want that shirt - It would be perfect for family reunions.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:58 PM
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24. You can get it :)
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:53 PM
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20. Some real life Engrish experiences
I used to work for a Japanese company. On a trip to Japan I received my itinerary from my host. He included my "Fright" schedule.

There is an anime series running in Japan right now called Naruto(it's quite good). They were having a big special for the premiere of the movie release. The host on the show (a rather rotund and simple minded individual) was wearing a teeshirt that read "Big Up My Homies". We couldn't stop laughing at it.

Another series called Detective Academy Q had a particularly big goof. The plot follows a young genius and his adventures as he becomes a leading detective under the instruction of a famous detective academy. A high point comes when he finally passes the last of the tests and the screen flashes big bright colors and it is announced in big bold letters that he is:

QUARAFIED!!!
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plcdude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 03:55 PM
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22. its a good thing
I went home for lunch and took care of all those needs.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 04:06 PM
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27. Then of course, there's the products that just shouldn't exist
Edited on Fri Feb-11-05 04:08 PM by ET Awful




Gotta love that ingenuity though :)

Then, there's just plain truth in labelling:

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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 04:18 PM
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28. I work for an architectural firm. I think we should be required to label
all drawings properly, like this:

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jmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 04:23 PM
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29. In the interest of fairness
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