Engrish in your daily life - sandwiches mastered

[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

[mimitabby]

www.parasitepals.com

[Eden]

Doh - I guess that you wouldn't have to go around the world to aquire one of these - but rather across town. I'm not sure from the web site whether Archie McPhee's makes them or buys them (or rather Accoutrements - which I think is an off shoot of Achie McPhee's) I'm beginning to think that they make them....

[crazycanuck]

I have to get me one of those parasite pal things

The little blue & green guy reminds me of a character from the Qu drink bottles...No i'm not nuts..!

[Zen]

No one will steal your lunch from the fridge at work if you keep it in a Parasite Pals lunch box!

[OakLeaf]

OMG

Some other message boards I'm on have a smilie for vomiting. Where is it on this board?????

[snapdragen]

OMG

Some other message boards I'm on have a smilie for vomiting. Where is it on this board?????

We are far too refined for vomiting smilies.

[Zen]

I see no need in this thread for smomiting violies.

[Tuckervill]

mmmmm....sandwiches....

[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.