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segunda-feira, abril 20, 2009

Drink this!


Mmmm, aloe vera. Good for you.

English words are used the world over, just for something different, new, cool, novel. I have seen T-shirts in upscale stores here with words from a newspaper article about Dan Quayle (where'd they dig that up?), random slightly off phrases like "The noise is come to the your town," among others. Is this just another random case or did the makers of this drink really think this would make a great name?

sexta-feira, dezembro 28, 2007

Fuck doors


This is a photo I have been meaning to take for a long time. Anyone familiar with Engrish.com will appreciate this post. It seems someone may have clued them in to the idea that Fuck is not the greatest name to use, because in the 3 years that have passed since I moved here, they have added an SA to the end of the name. It's still funny, but not as, since you no longer see a whole bunch of "fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck,..." stretching across the packaging. Some how having a FUCKSA door is not quite as intriguing, but still the photo is worth something.

sábado, fevereiro 24, 2007

Pop


This is my dish towel. In case you can't tell, that is supposed to be a chicken on the top, and underneath is a nice row of eggs waiting to be eaten in their little egg holder cups. I remember when I was a kid, I loved having a hard boiled egg to eat for breakfast in that little cup. I thought it was so cool. Now they seem to be obsolete; I'm sure no one gives them as wedding presents anymore, and I had not seen them in stores in a long time. I have no idea if they have ever existed in Brasil, but they at least exist here in memory in my kitchen. When I first moved here, I thought this towel was so strange, and was baffled by the "Engrish" on the bottom of it. So much in fact, that I believe I already wrote about it once in my other blog. Eggs are Pop? In Michigan, pop is a carbonated drink, which made it even more funny to me. There are many other great examples of English here, perhaps I will begin a series...

terça-feira, janeiro 30, 2007

Smart FUZZY!

I have no anicdotes to go with this photo, only to say I took it on Paralela (our sort of highway in the city) on Sunday and thought it was quite funny. And the fox is cute too, even sideways...