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Posted: 8/26/2008 12:30:41 PM | I recently saw a poster in a Hospital waiting room that said 'Warning,Thieves Operate in this area'. Now i know the NHS are making cuts but.......
Also once read on a packet of Raisins 'For a tasty treat,why not try Tossing over some cereal'.
Bad choice of words.But amusing all the same. Anyone seen owt like this that made you spit
your drink all over the person in front of you? | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/26/2008 12:37:18 PM | I've never understood why stores have a sign saying "No dogs, only guide dogs", as the owners of guide dogs are blind and so won't be able to read the sign.......
And the guide dog would never be able to read it, as it's usually quite high up on the door. | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/26/2008 12:46:20 PM | There are so many bloopers out there, though I like this one. It reminds me of some of the poor Spanish translations I've made as well.
"When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you." The company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant!" | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/26/2008 12:49:05 PM | We have a carpet and flooring shop in Bognor called Eazee Lay | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/26/2008 12:56:54 PM | City Hospital, Nottingham, due to the colour coded car park scheme:
BLACK PERMIT HOLDERS ONLY.
Rosa Parks would turn in her grave! | |
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Posted: 8/26/2008 12:59:47 PM |
due to the colour coded car park scheme
I've always thought they should put disabled parking bays furthest away from the entrance. That'll certainly stop anyone taking the p1ss. | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/28/2008 2:46:14 PM | I love oxymorons.......
Friendly Weapons
Act naturally
Found missing
Advanced BASIC
Genuine imitation
Airline Food
Good grief
Same difference
Almost exactly
Alone together
Silent scream
New classic
Childproof
Clearly misunderstood
Plastic glasses
Definite maybe
Pretty ugly
Exact estimate
not stractly relevant but may someone laugh | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/28/2008 2:51:01 PM | You see those signs along the road sometimes, where they are warning you of heavy machinery using or crossing that particular piece of road.
SLOW PLANT CROSSING.
I always have mental pictures of huge triffid like creatures ambling across the white lines...... | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/28/2008 2:52:24 PM | I once took my friend into a place that said no dogs!!!!
we left shamefaced of course | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/28/2008 2:53:15 PM | there is a place in germany called ..wank ..
so spot the brits ...car screetches to a halt and we all pile out one by one to stand underneath and have our pictures taken ... | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/28/2008 2:55:11 PM | | The falling rocks road sign.....like what the fcuk you supposed to do! | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/28/2008 2:57:11 PM | | when i visted arizona I had to make a stop at a place called "why" | |
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Posted: 8/28/2008 2:58:14 PM |
SLOW PLANT CROSSING.
I always have mental pictures of huge triffid like creatures ambling across the white lines......
Me too SJS! They used to give me nightmares. I still fear driving along a country road in the dark alone because of that damn programme.
I like the one on the kids superman outfit best: 'will not enable user to fly' OR on the bottom of some package for desert: 'do not turn over'. | |
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Posted: 8/28/2008 2:59:08 PM |
I recently saw a poster in a Hospital waiting room that said 'Warning,Thieves Operate in this area'.
Quite correct language, actually.........it wasn't an operating theatre.
I see signs that say " CCTV cameras are used in this area." Why warn the criminals? They'll just commit crime elsewhere.
Also "Do not park here. Offenders will be towed away." Why not tow the vehicle, instead of the offender? | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/28/2008 2:59:48 PM | saw one today in Greenwich today, "Humped pelican crossing" WTF is that, the kids i was with asked me and i just laughed  | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/28/2008 3:01:17 PM | My brother at christmas dinner tried the age old joke and got it wrong and it made for an easy choice though humourous....
Dad is carving the goose and brother and turns "so Patrick you a leg or a goose man?"
Normally I choose Breast (curvyDee drool) but given those choices I went legs! | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/28/2008 3:03:21 PM | Ooohhhh.... I've just thought of another road sign:
BLIND SUMMIT.
Well, for goodness sake decide what the blind thing is, or at least spell 'something' properly! | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/28/2008 5:09:34 PM | Near hear there are huge road signs pointing to...
Secret Nuclear Bunker | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/29/2008 1:03:08 PM | Once upon a time a well known Polish chocolate factory decided to sell sweets called 'Fart' onto the UK market ... you can guess they did not make much profit on that ... ah, just to explain, 'fart', in Polish, means 'good luck'  ... honest. | |
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Posted: 8/29/2008 1:10:05 PM | | We had a sheep shearing competition a few years back in the locality. It didn't seem to attract much interest...until some smart clown defaced the local sign from Sheep Shearing to Sheep Shagging. | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/29/2008 1:24:39 PM | | Dunno if its relevant here but i was once in a Panoramic lift, which had a nice view over Glasgow. Outside it said "Panoramic Lift" and it also had it in braile. What was the point in having it in braile? lol | |
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| Wrong choice of words?
Posted: 8/29/2008 1:43:58 PM | OK
From living my childhood in Germany.
mum went shopping...bought loo roll. Me sat on toilet and almost fell in with laughter.
Toilet roll brand - R.C. Tissue
Mum's mate lived on a street called Sheide Hecke
English translation - Vagina Bush
Another street name near where we lived - Wolfs Sheide..... Wolf's Vagina
My mum never really learnt to speak German so could never understand why we were always giggling when we pulled in to the Vagina Bush or Wolf's Vagina.
Emma | |
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