Engrish in your daily life - sandwiches mastered

[indigoiis]

That's better than what I always heard:

Wrapped up like a douche another runner in the night.....

I just have to pull this one up as I was reading this thread, because, I too thought it was "Wrapped up like a douche" but then, "you know the rumor in the night!"

And here's my contribution to the thread... a local shop wanted us to "sign our partition" for the passage of a bond issue.

[Starfish]

An old boss of mine said he had Carpel Tundrel Syndrome.

And, this thread made me go take a recent look at Engrish.com...and I just howled. What a great site.

[deena]

This thread is hilarious! The bank where I stopped to use the ATM had two signs in the drive-through:

"We will be closed on Monday in observance of Labor Day" and "We will be open Tuesday in observance of Labor Day" Huh?

Mnay of you will appreciate the handout I used a few semesters ago with a warning to my students that papers submitted in, as we say Engrish, will be graded accordingly!

[RolliePollie]

I just have to pull this one up as I was reading this thread, because, I too thought it was "Wrapped up like a douche" but then, "you know the rumor in the night!"

And here's my contribution to the thread... a local shop wanted us to "sign our partition" for the passage of a bond issue.

So what are they really saying? I also thought it was "wrapped up like a douche"!

Does anyone remember the Cal Worthington car commercials on TV in the late 70's and early 80's? I was a little kid then and I just LOVED those ads! I think it was a Southern California thing. He always had different exotic animals walking all over the cars in his car lot. I thought the song went like this: "If you want a car or truck, ***** Cow...if you wanna save a buck, ***** Cow." It makes perfect sense...***** cats, cows, any other animal you could imagine were all featured in his commercials. As an adult, I learned that what they were really saying was "Go See Cal," not "***** Cow."

[alpinerabbit]

So.... here's summat I picked up on a blog -


sorry link to pic not working...

"smart noshery makes you slobber".

yep.

[Eden]

So what are they really saying? I also thought it was "wrapped up like a douche"!

You are not alone - I NEVER could figure out why douches figured so prominently in a song....

It is acutally "revved up like a Duece" (a duece coupe car that is)

[Lise]

It seems that email has obviated the need to even use English, much less spell it correctly, or compose sentences with any grace. Here's a line from last night's exchange with an online maybe-date:

"Lise...the same. Thank you. I am very non eecky." (and it went on, a bit more coherently)

I wrote back, asking, "what does 'non-eecky' mean?"

He replied, "I guess I am trying to telll I reread your profile and we "may" match... "May"...

At that point, I gave up. I may, or may not ever know what "eecky", or, for that matter, "non eecky" might be. L.

I love it that this thread's not dead!

And now, I will reply by quoting MYSELF from 16 months ago.

The scenario: I was on match.com (btw, I am now happily off match.com and in love with a wonderful guy --not the one cited above-- so the system can work...), and emailing with the above cited guy. We did meet. I asked him what "non-eecky" meant. He said he was trying to reassure me that he was "not icky". Not a creep. Except. That he turned out to be a creep. We had a nice first date, made a date to see each other again, which he canceled by email at midnight the night before. Then, 3 months later, he sends an email begging my forgiveness, telling me he'd been in a horrible car crash, and was recovering...I had my doubts, but wrote him back. "When", I asked, "was this accident?" Two weeks ago. Oh, you mean 2.5 months after you blew me off? You Sir, are EECKY!

[mimitabby]

ah, so when they say EEKY, they are ICKY.

good to know!

[Zen]

EEEK!

I guess non-eeky means you won't scream in fright when you see him.
Non-icky means you won't puke.

[PinkBike]

i ride by the "integrity free school" on my way to church.

[Zen]

i ride by the "integrity free school" on my way to church.

Oh dear.
what were they thinking?
Glad it's free, who would pay for that?

[tygab]

simply outstanding... thank you all.

I will contribute to this someday...

[Fredwina]

especially if they work for Neighborhhodee legal services in El Monte, CA!

They replaced the sign! with one that has the correct spelling! how dare they!

[TsPoet]

My favorite local new and used bookstore just added a new section, with a nice sign:

Used Children

[PinkBike]

poet, that is hilarious!