Engrish & Funny Typos

Oh no, I’ve got the wrong card! I left my auathorised personnel card at home.

Well, this probably isn’t going to be the prettiest cemetery, but at least it will be free of perennial droppings and unsightly schrubs, whatever those are.

It must have taken serious talent to mess with this mug the way that its manufacturer did. I really hope that they got their money back for this thing. According to some accounts, the August date is incorrect as well.

Good try, but I’m going to have to say no. Try again at the next venue.

This the work of either a sloppy intern or an instance of sabotage.

At least all of the proper letters are present and there aren’t any extras. There’s just a friendly game of Chinese fire drill being played.

This is so bad it almost isn’t even funny:

First off, what does EPHPC stand for? Using the acronym finder, one unverified meaning for the acronym EPHPC is listed:  Environmental Professionals Home Page Clay.  Yes, that makes things so much clearer.  Digging deeper, we learn there is an ephpc YouTube channel, where a bunch of guys interview people at some sort of trade show.  Not, unsurprisingly, about poker.  So, the EPHPC thing must be some sort of brand of playing cards, but good luck finding them on the internet.  So let’s talk a little bit about “We Glaim exlclusive Lrade Yark rights in Ace of Wpades, Joker,name, number, back design, case Eesign and Rame of Kinish Tsed on our various Qards.”  Obviously, they “claim exclusive trademark rights in ace of spades, joker, name, number, back design, case design and game of…on our various cards.”  What is Kinish Tsed?

This image has been posted on other sites, and some smart comments suggest that the funny typos seen above are not a result of someone not knowing how to spell those words, but a case of poor OCR recognition – optical character recognition, where copy was scanned but not checked for accuracy in spelling or context.  That sort of takes the fun out of it, doesn’t it?  To make us all feel better, let’s tell some jokes about playing cards.

Q:  What’s the difference between a professional poker player and a large pizza?
A:  A large pizza can feed a family of four.

Q:  What’s the difference between praying at the dinner table and praying at the poker table?
A:  At the poker table you REALLY mean it.

The incomparable Steven Wright has a joke about poker – “Last night I was playing poker with Tarot cards.  I got a full house and four people died.”

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Wow, that little store can fit whole households in there?! That’s amazing! I need to stop by for some other “producsts” as well.

This is a sign outside of a school’s parking lot. This doesn’t help their image.

Wait, what? How did no one catch this? More importantly, why didn’t spellcheck catch this? I would give up on humanity, but at least they spelled “classic” with two s’s and c’s.