Purchase of the Week

I bought my own Engrish T-shirt, but it's not as good as the ones shown below.
"Southern Rock A love song so divine Would it be enough for your cheating heart If I broke down and cried? If I cried? I said I know it's only rock 'n roll but I like it.
If I could stick my pen in my heart I would spill it all over the stage Would it satisfy ya, would it slide on by ya Would you think the boy is Strange? Ain't he strange? If I could win ya, if I could sing ya
"

July 8, 2002 - 11:44 PM
Wes Ehrlichman

More Nihongo-Eigo! (Japanese-Engrish!)

The focus of this one is T-shirts, but there's a few extras thrown in. In case you were wondering, Japanese people look at me really strange whenever I take a close up of something because it's in funny English. I suppose if a Japanese person was walking around America snapping pictures of any shirt they could find with a Japanese character on it we would probably look at them funny too.

Actually in Japan they also make fun of people for misusing their language. Not on T-shirts though. They make fun of people who get tattoos of badly drawn Kanji! Let this be a lesson to all of you who want to get the Kanji for thoughtfulness on your arm. A few wrong strokes here and there and you've got the word penis on your arm for life.


This elementary school student's shirt reads,
"Lover's Choice"
This shirt is exactly what Japan has a bad reputation for. I bet if her mother knew what it meant she wouldn't be smiling so big.


This is a middle school student whose shirt reads,
"RUN
AWAY
RIGHT
NOW!
"
I have no idea why she bought it. Probably because she liked the stars at the top.


"VIRGIN GRAVE."
Why in the world would anyone create a clothing company with this name? You'd think they would look their company name up before they trademark it.

"JUST A MORMENT"
This sign was on the changing room door of a store with a lot of Engrish shirts.

The name of the CD that this flyer is for is
"FULL MONTY."
That's a little bit funny, but the flag in the background reads, "BUY OR SAWED." That's not the funniest thing either. The funniest thing is the evil rabbit teddy-bear in the bottom corner that's shooting a water gun into the air. Huh?

"Area for taking snapshots with the statue of SAIGO together."
This place is much better than the area for taking snapshots with the statue of SAIGO in pieces.


"N0 PROBLEM
STEEP ROAD MONSTER"
Funny Enlish is one thing, but funny English on a T-shirt that is advertizing for a Monster Truck Rally is another. It doesn't get much better than this.


"DERIVERY & TAKE OUT"
Apparently delivery was really hard to spell, what with the same word written nearly a foot away on the sign to the left of it.


Although there isn't technically any English on this cookie, it's still not really something you would see in America...
(This symbol in Japanese means peace)


"DIET PLEASE!
HAVE A GOOD VALENTINES DAY"
Nuff said.

"CONES DO YOU THINK WE SHARED?
HOW MANY TIMES DID WE DANCE?
COULD WE BEGIN TO"
This English is mostly strange because they stole it from something and formatted it illegibly. Who cares, it's still funny!


"LUNCHI MENU"
I've also seen "Launch Specials advertised," but I don't have the picture.


"Walk the dog every morning in the green park. keep the geen life & geen's world. We are save the happy reef and happy voice. Have a nice day.Good every morning."
Who is Geen?


"feeling As you are impressed. you have only to live"
I can't even imagine what this is supposed to say.

Sasaki Sensei owns the best Engrish shirts in existence. He could seriously have his own section. This shirt reads:
"ENDLESS
SUMMER

DEFENSE-LESS
LIFE GAME
."
It's followed by a hilarious poem that makes no sense, but you'll have to trust me because you can't read it in the picture. Sorry.

This is another of Sasaki Sensei's amazing shirts. This one says,
"MASCULINE
SEASON TO FEEL THE WIND"
I would buy this shirt in a minute.
 
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