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Skadar:


--- Quote from: More Cowbell on September 30, 2005, 11:20:15 am ---Totally! Engrish.com really sums up what I'm looking for on the cabinet. It will be a great resource of ideas. Do you think people will understand it or will they just be confused? I guess it depends on how well the presentation is done.

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This is a fantastic idea for a theme!  However, you are correct in thinking that average people will most likely not "get it".  It will take some explaining if anyone asks, and when you're done explaining expect a forced smile.

Whenever I buy something from China that isn't from a major manufacturer I always read all of the instructions for Engrish.  It cracks me up like nothing else.

On the flip side, sometimes Engrish can be downright poetic.  I have to take the space to post this, the most poetic and beautiful Engrish review of an Aprilia scooter.  I saw this years ago and it has stayed with me ever since.  It is from the early days of Epinions.com:


--- Quote --- I am riding the Aprilia and loving it very much. When I am riding, I am having the joy of cool wind in my face. But in colder weather, I must wear a hat and gloves. You would not know what joy it brings to have the wind blowing my scarf in it. It goes flap! Flap! Flap! And is very restful and warm.

When I am visiting friends, I am riding the Aprilia. Through traffic I am going happiest with zip, zip, zip between the people in their cars and eating or talking on their phones. It is very careful I must be sometimes for they are being very poor in their distractions. But I am careful! It would be to no happiness to be hit on the road.

The Aprilia I am riding is the Habana 125, and it is being very kawai! People stop and turn their heads and are being at me looking if they are listening to music or listening to the small horn. It is like the happiest curves of blue from the sky!

And I am never having to stop for gas! The gas station men stand outside in their red shirts and watch me pass. I like to wave at them for they are not giving any gas to me and are looking poor as they stand. Do not slouch! It is not bringing no one to their happiest to stand with hands in pockets and kicking the ground. It is most poor!

But with my Aprilia, I am riding all day and never getting tired. There are bumps in the road and they are nothing to me as I am being in control and can turn right around them! If I miss, the wheels accept the bump in the road and are not making my teeth hit together. It is the most fun to ride through a park or around a lake and not even be with cars on the road. I make the horn go and people jump and are being surprised! But when they see the Aprilia and my smiling face, they are most being joy and wave. Wave! Wave! I am saying to all my new epinions friends my Habana is bringing great joy to me and others and will to you bring joy too!

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Crazy Cooter:

I think it's a great idea.

Watch out though:
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"davidrfoley the funniest part is that ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US belongs to me"  ::)

markrvp:

This one is so stereotypical Engrish I almost couldn't believe it was true  :D



RayB:

Yum! I love penguin!


mo1e:

oooooo wuv you wong time lol engrish makes me laugh alot i think it would be so funny

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