Friday, August 27, 2010

Are you sure that's what you want to say?

It's no secret that grammatical errors and misused words are entertainment in its most pure and innocent form.  It's also especially hilarious when these errors are displayed on clothing and worn by people who have no idea how incorrect, inappropriate, or utterly random these phrases or groups of words are.  Here are a few of the sayings i've seen thus far.  I know simply seeing them written on a blog won't do them justice, but here goes anyway.

"The For Free" - This was on the back of one of my students shirts.  Is the kid for free?

"Content." - Written in big block letters on the front of a scowling, chain smoking, 17 year old's T shirt.  She didn't look super content to me.  

"English" - Sorry boo, but i'm gonna go ahead and call bullshit. 

"Rough, Laugh, Love" - I....yeah...I don't even know...

"I'm a planet cowboys fun" - Once again written on the back of a Reggio student's shirt.  I don't think his mother realized that this phrase is one apostrophe away from being all sorts of disturbing. 

and my personal favorite...

"Party like it's 1491" - I found this shirt so hilarious and random that I actually tried purchasing it from a store in the subway...unfortunately they wanted something like 20,000 won for it and I decided against it.  When I got home I immediately googled the year 1491 to see what sort of significance it held and here were the highlights: 
-A major fire broke out in Dresden
AND
-The outbreak of bread and cheese revolt in North Holland

These hardly seem like reasons to party, but i'll take it.  

Everyone back home, you will be receiving T shirts such as these for Christmas, Birthdays, Hanukkah, souvenirs etc...and you're welcome : )

4 comments:

  1. how about a party like it's 1847 t-shirt... the year the first real donut was claimed to have been created

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  2. omg i laughed out loud so hard someone in the parking lot outside my apartment looked up. whatever that was hilarious.

    -Pitts

    ps im lovin these blogs. thank you for entertaining my life.

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  3. Hahahahahhaha......so true....I was in japan last summer and saw all types of non-functional, poorly transliterated t shirts worn by the youth....dope blog.....keep it up......interesting to see how teaching is overseas.....

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  4. so amazing. so so very truly amazing.

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