Engrish in your daily life - sandwiches mastered

[Eden]

OMG, I just spent 20 minutes shaking with uncontrollable laughter here at my desk (you notice how it's always more funny when you shouldn't be laughing?) at "viscous dogs".

Someone on another cycling forum wrote about be chased by "viscous dogs" once and I had the same reaction. I sat at my desk and laughed and laughed. Anyone who walked by probably thought I was having a breakdown. Normally I don't worry over other people's typos, its easy to make them, but it was sooooo funny I had to write back that they couldn't have been very fast as they oozed their way towards him......

[Xrayted]

I'm so glad someone revisited this thread. It has had me in stitches all morning.

When I was going to the main campus of my college for a semester, I overheard two culinary students talking about going over to see Ted lick. A few weeks later, I had to park out back on the other side of the campus. On my way to class, I look up and in big letters all over the side of a building it said "C. Ted Lick Conference Center". I always got a giggle fit everytime I had to walk by there.

As for Blinded By The Light, I didn't know what they were saying either until I heard Springsteen sing it. (he wrote it too) It wasn't as much fun after I knew the real words, so I still sing about a douche just cuz...

When I was a clinical student, a group of us were hanging out at the end of the shift, playing some music. Brick House came on and everyone started dancing around and singing. Marty, a tech, brought down the house when she belted out "She's a pimp... Owwww!!!"

I imagine training a viscous dog to heal would be a no brainer. Everywhere you go, there she is, stuck to your calf. But in a nice way.

[SadieKate]

For some reason the photo at the bottom right is not loading in my browser so I can see the file name of the photo: "Color print of a potatoe farm"

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/myster...eetpotato.html

[Eden]

I love when this thread comes up, as it is a reminder to visit Engrish.com to see what's new.... Some of the stuff on there is hillarious.
Sometimes I think that someone is having a joke on non-english speakers by getting them to use funny names. They have one photo up of a big ocean going ship - like a container ship or something called the Titan Uranus...... I swear it does not look like it was photoshopped and the caption also says this
This is NOT a fake photograph - apparently
the ship is owned by the Singapore-based
Titan Shipping Co, and their ships are
named after planets.

[Duck on Wheels]

Someone on another cycling forum wrote about be chased by "viscous dogs" once and I had the same reaction. I sat at my desk and laughed and laughed. Anyone who walked by probably thought I was having a breakdown. Normally I don't worry over other people's typos, its easy to make them, but it was sooooo funny I had to write back that they couldn't have been very fast as they oozed their way towards him......

Either that, or they drooled all over him. I think Sarahlou's little dog Loulou might be seen by some as "attacking viscously". She's a very avid licker.

[Trek420]

Either that, or they drooled all over him. I think Sarahlou's little dog Loulou might be seen by some as "attacking viscously". She's a very avid licker.

Is her name Ted? I'd like to see that.

[tygab]

heh, I probably should have put the photo text in here too... still it was good stuff..

here is a somewhat embarrassing song mis-hearing of my own - the song actually goes "whoa, black betty, bam a lam" or something (it's a well known song). There is a part where I always heard that as "whoa magnetic family man."

No, I never figured out what a magnetic family man would be, but it sounded fun enough. I attribute this to largely just hearing it over loudspeakers at sports events or big parties...

[Dianyla]

Ah so! Another bicycling related Engrish entry!

http://www.engrish.com/recent_detail...ate=2008-01-02

[Eden]

I sent something to engrish.com a a few days ago - I hope he uses it!. I found this freaky little lunch box at work. Someone must have been to Japan and just had to buy it - its displayed in one of the staff rooms. Its a little bentoish style box with a spoon and fork - called Parasite Pals - Time to Lunch is Happy Tickling in Your Tummy....... with a pictures of a cute little girl and some bugs....

[RoadRaven]

Oh, Dianyla - NutCracker? Too funny - methinks that my partner and sons will not be interested in one of these bikes!

And Eden
*Rave scrunches her face up*
Parasite pals???
I know bugs in our tummies is a reality - but for lunch? worded like that?
Ewwww...

[michelem]

I sent something to engrish.com a a few days ago - I hope he uses it!. I found this freaky little lunch box at work. Someone must have been to Japan and just had to buy it - its displayed in one of the staff rooms. Its a little bentoish style box with a spoon and fork - called Parasite Pals - Time to Lunch is Happy Tickling in Your Tummy....... with a pictures of a cute little girl and some bugs....

www.parasitepals.com

[shootingstar]

And none of us have made the mistake of public vs. pubic?

I need to seriously proofread my emails sometimes.

I've seen spelling errors that wouldn't have occurred in such frequency 25 years ago. And these are from university-educated people where their first language or only language is English.

And I get super tired of spelling out my first name to unilingual, English speaking people --can't people figure out the gender difference between Jean and Gene? I never had to do this when I was a child...but now it's quite frequent.

It must creative spellings for other first names, that is causing this annoying trend.

I do find some of the English misspellings in non-English language countries quaint. But I can't laugh too hard, I already deal with a mother who doesn't know much English and I've lost a tremendous amount of my mother tongue, Chinese.

But hey, my French is truly laughable...and for many of you, it would be also...

[latelatebloomer]

and I get super tired of spelling out my first name to unilingual, English speaking people --can't people figure out the gender difference between Jean and Gene? I never had to do this when I was a child...but now it's quite frequent.

poor shooting star.....and then there's me.... Lynda Gene Rymond ....gender F, parents apparently intent that no one EVER spell my name correctly. Sometimes, like in my high school year book, they "land the triple" and get all 3 wrong.

[TsPoet]

I'm a little reluctant to post this, please let me know ASAP if I should delete, and please keep it clean! (Is that a hypocritical request?)

We have a plethora of Asian soup places around here. The latest is called King's and their cards and menu say

It's not just good
It's Pho King good!

People are collecting the cards and displaying them around work.