Mistranslated Signs in Foreign Countries ---- For a Laugh

[Dixielander]

Got it now, but thanks for your thoughtfulness.

[X-USAF]

Up here in Western New York, there is a road sign on a three lane hill (two up, one down). The sign reads: USE BOTH LANES. After ten years living here, I am yet to be on that hill when a police officer is nearby. I have always wanted to USE BOTH LANES and be cited for it. I can't wait to explain to the judge that Rule #34 applies: WORDS MEAN THINGS. We also have another sign, SPEED ZONE AHEAD. The way I see it, I should be able to speed up.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I should scan this picture that I took in front of a Mennonite ( kind of like the Amish) home.

COME ON IN FOR HO MADE PIES.

It always cracks me up.

[real saxophonist]

On Greeley Tribune vending machines:

USE ANY COIN COMBINATION

Do not use pennies

[Dixielander]

Bump for this thread. Keep us laughing, folks!

[VoiceOfBruck]

Malapropism bump!

[fredtaps]

Laughing so hard, thanks we needed that!

[FReethesheeples]

lol

[flying Elvis]

Here's the ultimate Japanese mistranslation. He He!

Fack You Man!

[dighton]

[Tony in Hawaii]

I vill not buy this record, it is scratched.

[flying Elvis]

A Japanese softdrink

[Constitution Day]

[snippy_about_it]

GO HERE or you can search FR with the words "All your base", we had quite a few threads. Lots of graphics and they take a while to load. Have fun.

[flying Elvis]

[Constitution Day]

What you say!

[Tony in Hawaii]

Graffiti seen on a wall in Stanton, CA:

Fuch you motherfucer

[machman]

[jellybean]

This is from one of my all-time favorite threads at FR...Joking in the Context of Political Correctness

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The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service, at a hotel in Asia which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review.

Room Service (RS): "Morny. Ruin sorbees"

Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service"

RS: "Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"

G: "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs"

RS: "Ow July den?"

G: "What??"

RS: "Ow July den?...pry, boy, pooch?"

G : "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."

RS: "Ow July dee bayhcem...crease?"

G: "Crisp will be fine."

RS: "Hokay. An San tos?"

G: "What?"

RS: "San tos. July San tos?"

G: "I don't think so"

RS: "No? Judo one toes??"

G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one toes means"

RS: "Toes! toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?"

G: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."

RS: "We bother?"

G: "No..just put the bother on the side."

RS: "Wad?"

G: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."

RS: "Copy?"

G: "Sorry?"

RS: "Copy...tea...mill?"

G: "Yes. Coffee please, and that's all."

RS: "One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy....rye??"

G: "Whatever you say"

RS: "Tendjewberrymud"

G : "You're welcome"

Okay for those of you who didn`t get the meaning on "Tendjewberrymud" its ´thankyou very much´.

64 Posted on 08/23/1999 23:57:08 PDT by Cool Guy

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Where did you get that!! I just love it.