The Folk Museum

posted on 16 May 2009 in Chinglish

 

Photo courtesy of Hans Guijt.
Found near the city of Lijiang, China. 

40 captions

  1. Someone | 4:05 am |

    Finally, a museum… err, musiem, where you can do entertaining things like taming food!

  2. rowger | 4:11 am |

    Wait a minute, the food is WILD, everyting else is NAXI, but what about the Horse and the Bow?

  3. Loi | 4:23 am |

    After reading about the “wild food toasting” I was half expecting a disclaimer like “flamethrower not included.”

  4. J-Luke | 5:29 am |

    I suppose they are ridding the horse of this funny place…

  5. beechoak | 5:44 am |

    A funny place with a funny language!

  6. derailer | 5:45 am |

    Sounds more like a pitch for a retirement home. Or methadone clinic.

  7. beechoak | 5:46 am |

    I propose a TOAST!… to the Wild Food!

    Hear, hear!

  8. beechoak | 5:48 am |

    Ah, fond memories of our family visits to the Folk Musiem… making paper, dancing, playing the bow… ridding the place of horses… [sigh] good times!

  9. BigFatCat | 6:33 am |

    I found out the Naxi spinning was organized by a spin doctor

  10. Xila | 7:20 am |

    This place is so funny, the sign painter could barely make the sign due to all his laughing!

  11. OtisM | 8:23 am |

    Ha ha ha! They misspelled mewseeum!

  12. EricG | 8:35 am |

    Man, how can they mess up the work Fork! The 1969 Oneida Presidential chilled salad fork is by far their best exhibit.

  13. Classic Steve | 8:41 am |

    Wait — “spining”? Do they rip out somebody’s spine?

  14. BigFatCat | 11:13 am |

    Combine music with ancient artifacts and you get musiem.

  15. Jim | 12:18 pm |

    Ridding the horse of what? I wonder.

  16. Brandon | 12:49 pm |

    Naxi Restaurant - Just the place to join the Party! Let us cater your next Naxi rally!

  17. EricG | 2:52 pm |

    You should call ‘em as musiem.

  18. bigcaddy | 3:25 pm |

    i am enjying the wild food and ridding the horse of this musiem.

  19. clairedeloony | 3:52 pm |

    Man. Now I want to enjy some wild food toasting. Seriously, I’m doing burgers on the grill tonight.

  20. AnnaRexia | 4:57 pm |

    Ah, the musiem, where you can hang out with naxi folk and toast wild animals while spining paper. Mmmm…. toasted animals. Be sure to try the horse!

  21. Justin M. | 6:01 pm |

    Funny BELONGS in in musiem.

  22. Lollerskate | 8:29 pm |

    A wild Sandwich appears!

  23. Grifter | 8:57 am |

    You had me at dongba…

  24. Brian | 1:43 pm |

    IF only they weren’t a bunch o’ stinkin Naxis….

  25. Dave | 2:17 pm |

    I’m not so much worried about the Naxis of the past … it’s the Neo-naxis that I worry about…

  26. DieselDragon | 8:09 am |

    I’m sure that when this sign was typed up, someone’s keyboard was configured a bit wrong. If ye substitute “Naxi” with “Taxi”, ye get:
    . . Taxi resturant (Cabbie’s fry-up),
    . . Taxi spinning (A typical cabbie’s U-turn), and
    . . Taxi dancing (That, however, I cannot explain!)

    Conclusion: This is actually a transport museum! :)

  27. DieselDragon | 8:11 am |

    Wild food toasting - Daily demonstrations on the hour! (Please bring a packed lunch) :)

  28. DieselDragon | 8:13 am |

    Last time I played the Bow in the UK, I got arrested for illegal possession of a weapon…And they reckon that China is a restrictive country? :o

  29. Dr. Dubious | 10:47 am |

    I was wondering that Hixler was up to these days…

  30. rushumble | 4:10 pm |

    I like this one –it’s tricky because “Naxi” is about the only thing not Engrish here! (They’re an ethnic group located in parts of the Sichuan Province). “Hereis a funny place” inded!

  31. DieselDragon | 6:00 pm |

    > —=== Rushumble wrote: ===—
    > it’s tricky because “Naxi” is about the only thing not Engrish here!
    > (They’re an ethnic group located in parts of the Sichuan Province)

    Ahh, I wasn’t aware of that…It looked like a simple typing error, or a keyboard problem that got the Xs and Ts mixed up! :o
    Cheers for enlightening me though, I’ll have to try looking the tribe up online! :)

  32. Luna | 7:58 pm |

    What?! Why are they going to be ridding of the horse?! Don’t tell me that’s what they meant by “enjy the wild food”!!!!

  33. Escherichia Coli | 11:59 am |

    It’s a holistic experience. The Naxi concept of riding the food you eat, dancing and making the dung paper you need in the funny place.

  34. Kurei-Z | 10:06 pm |

    It sure is a funny place.

  35. Jeff | 9:54 am |

    Naxis this, naxis that; it’s always about naxis with you people!

  36. Jeff | 9:58 am |

    I might have mentioned the naxis once or twice, but I don’t think they noticed it…

  37. Johnny | 11:33 am |

    Does this look to anyone else like it was done in Paint?

  38. Xeridae | 3:25 pm |

    So this is what Hitler was secretly working on in his final years….

  39. ne1410s | 10:43 am |

    Naxis! I HATE those guys

  40. Gino Mercedetti | 6:43 am |

    Folk you all.

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