Had to postpone our flight home after I got mild food poisoning. Coincidence? Fate? Psychosomatic? i don’t know for sure, but it prompted the following exchange with my brother-in-law, Guy:
“Maybe God doesn’t want you to live.”
[ choking ] “What? God wants me to die?”
“No - not to live.” [ hand motions like a plane ]
“Oh - leave! leeeeve.”
“liiive.”
“Either way.”
I’ve had to reduce the number of images on the main page, so only the last 3 posts are shown. Please go back and see the stuff I’ve been posting, if you haven’t already seen it - Good Stuff. Pointless to most, comedy gold to the rest! And now back to the show:
I found a great example of mangled English on GOOGLE NEWS! And of course, it’s from the Chinese Newspaper, XinHua. Ha Ha!
This is at least an eighthead.
the what? How does one know if one has a bumf?
Why even put English on the signs if it’s just going to slow us down?
What exactly is this encouraging me to do? “Let’s move it, there’re people waiting to use the bathroom?”
Dammit - how many times have I told you not to stride in here?!?!
I put the pro in prohied.
nothing wrong, grammatically, but why the hell did they mention Wall Street?
Awesome baby toys - the top part of the package read thus, and the bottom:
Nothing can promote the interest of Mangled English like my site. More soon.
9 responses so far ↓
1 Anonymous // Feb 14, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Bumf = toilet paper. Took me quite a while to figure that one out…
2 codeman38 // Feb 14, 2006 at 3:08 pm
The “Convival World” logo is a complete knockoff of Fisher-Price. Only in China…
3 devil's own // Feb 15, 2006 at 7:59 am
Comic relief, u said it rite, ur site is hilarious, I just laughed so hard that i almost fell of my chair!
will keep looking for more!
4 Anonymous // Feb 16, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Yup, “bumf” is old British army slang for toilet paper. Derived from “bum fodder”.
5 tian // Feb 18, 2006 at 8:42 pm
I thought Reese Whiterspoon had a large forehead (aka. the Fivehead), but this Chinese man’s forehead is much better.
Way to go, Large Head Chinese Man! I salute you.
6 Anonymous // May 24, 2006 at 9:44 am
My dad was in the army and bumpf had nothing to do with bums. It referred to paperwork like forms etc. “I have to get through all this bumpf before luncheon, old chap”
7 Alex // Jul 18, 2007 at 7:12 am
Eighthead…. I’m still laughing
8 Ella // Apr 25, 2008 at 3:44 pm
bumf for me is all the crappy packaging that comes with everything you buy these days!
Or its all those adverts that fall out of a magazine when you open it!
I didn’t know it was toilet paper…but maybe thats how those adverts got their name….not even useful for wiping your arse on!
9 Benchiktovchik // Jun 7, 2008 at 2:08 am
Приветствую всех!
У меня такой вопрос,кто что интересное подскажет буду признателен.
Мы с друзьями собираемся поехать в круиз по просторам России и ближнего зарубежья месяца на два на своих машинах,но не как не можем согласовать маршрут,если у кого уже был опыт такого путешествия,может,что посоветуете.Девчонок с собой не берем,думаем,что во все городах России с этим не будет проблем,если у кого будут рекомендации и в вопросе отдыха с девушками тоже буду признателен.
С уважением Сеньчик
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