Entering the tower…

posted on 4 Nov 2009 in Chinglish, Instructions


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Photo courtesy of Pius Ott.
Found at the Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China.

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  1. Ageless | 4:24 am |  Vote: Add rating 1  Subtract rating 0  

    Don’t dare enter, you ragamuffin!

  2. Big Fat Cat | 4:34 am |  Vote: Add rating 1  Subtract rating 0  

    I now understand why Bruce Lee had to fight his way into the tower

  3. Big Fat Cat | 4:36 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Our tower guards are pathologists and you will be thoroughly studied and examined before allowing into the tower

  4. Big Fat Cat | 4:38 am |  Vote: Add rating 1  Subtract rating 0  

    Interloper will be punished by walking the plank at the top of the tower

  5. beechoak | 4:40 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    So, Crazy Uncle Joe will have to stay at the hotel…

  6. beechoak | 4:41 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Pardon me, but I have an appointment with a cigarette.

  7. beechoak | 4:44 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    No flint, pyrite, or rubbing two sticks together…

  8. beechoak | 4:45 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Do you have some place to plug in my electric knife?

  9. beechoak | 4:47 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    You may walk your dog but you may not carry him.

  10. beechoak | 4:47 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Check your diaper pails at the door.

  11. dangevin | 4:47 am |  Vote: Add rating 1  Subtract rating 0  

    Effluvium…the forbidden fragrance…by Calvin Klein.

  12. dangevin | 4:48 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Wow, three strikes: I’m out and I didn’t even get past number one!

  13. dangevin | 4:49 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    I’ll take Baleful Biology for $600, Alex.

  14. beechoak | 4:50 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    They just confiscated my hand lotion, my shampoo, my bottle of bleach and my KY!

  15. beechoak | 4:54 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Are we entering the Pearl Tower or boarding a plane?

  16. kringo | 4:55 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    It does NOT put the lotion in the tower.

  17. Ralph. Hamilton | 4:55 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Yeah. We did have a visitor once. I just can’t remember when.

  18. beechoak | 4:57 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Does this include posters of Chairman Mao?

  19. beechoak | 4:59 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    The pig my enter under his own volition only if he is not slovenly nor carrying the H1N1 virus.

  20. Chuck | 5:11 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Hah ! But they don’t specifically prohiibit hullabaloo !

    I’m in. Sans effluvium.

  21. Blaze | 5:20 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Only 100 milliliters of cubage?! How am I supposed to make my sururkraut like that?

  22. Blaze | 5:21 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    I think that cubage is top of cool shape in the world.

  23. Grifter | 6:16 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    9. And don’t forget our princess is in another tower.

  24. Pete | 6:44 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Mmmmmm…..bangers and match!

  25. Pete | 6:44 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    I’m a Popinjay. Can I come in?
    I wanna go to the observation deck so people can observe me.

  26. Pete | 6:45 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Effluvium? Is that a fancy way to say “connocting poopie”?

  27. CallieWL | 6:55 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Well, thank God they don’t allow psychotics in!

  28. CallieWL | 6:57 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Baleful biology — something created by Dr. Evil.

  29. bigcaddy | 7:13 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Sorry ma’am, you cant take your stove in here, it is an appliance, please put it in the pile outside.

  30. ryaninc | 7:19 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Darn, what am I supposed to do with my tinder and exploders? Leave them at home?

  31. Xila31 | 7:19 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Look out! That raggamuffin has a fruit knife, a blender, and 101 mL of liquid! We’re all going to die!

  32. Brandon | 7:19 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    What’s that I smell in the air? Fresh-cut grass? Gasoline? No? Why, of course! It’s the peculiar smell of effluvium!!

  33. BeadyEl | 7:49 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Our guards have all taken Baleful Biology 101, and can spot a ragamuffin at 100 yards.

  34. jnmcnally | 7:55 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Dang, Honey – don’t even bother putting the exploder and the effluvium back in the car. They don’t allow any ragamuffins or psychotics anyway.

  35. Denise | 8:06 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    (referring to rule #4) Do not bring your dead cat or farting dog.

  36. Jetsuzu | 8:39 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    I’m a drunk, psychotic ragamuffin. Can I still come in?

  37. Bear or bust | 8:53 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Sword? Guess that means no entry for samurai either.

  38. Pete | 9:09 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Daily Special at the Police Bakery inside the Tower:

    10% off the Fried Ragamuffins with Blown Raspberries!

  39. jjhitt | 9:20 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    I love the smell of Effluvium in the morning. It smells like Victory…

  40. Toadu | 10:37 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    i woke up today and said,”I am going to take my drunken psychotic ragamuffin ass to the tower today, with my sword in one hand and my dog in the other.” Guess I will have to find some place else to go.

  41. Juulie | 10:58 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    I could translate that a lot more easily: No one gets in. Period.

  42. Dude | 11:05 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Hey, this doesn’t say “Prohibit carrying the gun and artillery”, so I guess we can still bring guns with us.

  43. Josey | 11:18 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    “…the light of the peopie to keep and beal alms shall not be inflinged…”

  44. John | 11:50 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Still no respect for the effluvium-toting-Ninja-ragamuffin.

  45. garudamon11 | 12:23 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    damn , i guess i brought this sword and electric knife for no reason !

  46. DieselDragon | 12:28 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    At least there’s one consolation in the rules for smokers like myself. Rule 2 clearly states that non-smokers must non-smoke at the non-appointed spot – Meaning that smoking is permitted everywhere else! :)

    Now if only I can find a safe place to leave this Katana… :D

  47. DieselDragon | 12:29 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Prohibit the carry of Sword? Isn’t that blatant religious discrimination against Sikhs? :o

  48. pamela38 | 4:50 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Jeez! Just say NO ENTRY!

  49. SCS | 5:03 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Is this the Tower of London?

  50. kim171 | 7:10 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    First I couldn’t get into the naughty palace because of my stupid disease. Now I can’t see the tower because I forgot I had effluvium in my purse? dang it!! I really wanted to see those epidemic areas!

  51. Lora | 8:02 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Sorry, Mr. Invisible Ragamuffin, but the voices in my head just told me and my other personalities we aren’t welcome at this tower…

  52. Lora | 8:04 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Epidemic area… must be where the stupid disease is going around. :-)

  53. rowger | 11:46 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    I’m carrying contraband, but I’m not an interloper. Do I get away with it?

  54. Mista Bob Dobalina | 12:32 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    No Raggamuffin, but Reggaeton allowed.

  55. GoodGuy | 4:40 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    I love the smell of effluvium in the morning. It smells like …Engrish.

  56. Alex Sortor | 7:38 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    wow, i just looked up effluvium, apparently its an invisible emanation or an offensive exhalation. I want some…

  57. Heather | 8:23 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    So if the substance that smells can be seen is it allowed, as long as it doesn’t disturb sanitation?

  58. eurobubba | 10:38 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    The Peculiar Smell of Effluvium… wasn’t that a Pink Floyd album from around 1978?

  59. Potorrero | 11:58 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    “Prohibit carrying the articles which can destroy and pollute inner enviroment of the Tower”

    Leave your granade launcher at home.

  60. Christine | 1:06 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Well, crap! I’m a ragamufffin psychotic carrying my metal appliances and my fruit knife and letting my effluvium out wherever I go, and I’ve got some baleful biology & banger in my purse too….and I have this streamer hanging from my shirt……

    I guess I can’t go in. :-(

  61. Kitsune | 4:20 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    So do they have a sobriety and sanity test before you can enter?

  62. helenabucket | 4:52 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Ragamuffin, drunken dyslexic people of the world (with exploder) untie!

    BTW: I have an idea of what the particular “smell of animal effluvium” is, but I can’t imagine ever warning someone about it on a sign. For a tower.

    Also, “baleful biology” may have been the very thing that gave us Rush Limbaugh. The sign is wise to ask us to avoid it.

  63. kittaay | 2:42 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Oh damn, I really wanted to show my kitchen The Tower.

  64. pikapal | 2:23 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Hey Ragamuffin you better not carry your dog named Muffin or butter your muffin with a knife.

  65. Mags | 8:09 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    oooooooh… it’s no fun entering the tower without my effluvium!
    Can you even HAVE fun in a tower without effluvium?

  66. Andy | 11:59 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    How would Pearl Tower security respond to a fart?

  67. diegokeitai | 4:40 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    i’m sorry but my banger is attached to my body and I’m proud of it.

  68. Miichan | 11:34 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Ragamuffin… Dx! My mom used to call me that!

  69. Luigi | 4:01 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Wonder if bringing a jar of Pesto would give one entrance to The Tower?

  70. drumming_panda | 4:46 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    I like how they clarify at the bottom that they will do their best to provide security. This is the high-quality security we need!! Right?

  71. that person over there | 6:58 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    YOU RAGAMUFFIN!

  72. Cobi | 6:17 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    They are so lucky I couldn’t find an outlet for my toaster, then they would see a ragamuffin

  73. Cobi | 6:18 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    I think the Amish run this place

  74. piss | 10:55 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Look out! That raggamuffin has a fruit knife, a blender, and 101 mL of liquid! We’re all going to die!

  75. piss | 10:56 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Look out! That raggamuffin has a fruit knife, a blender, and 100.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 mL of liquid! We’re all going to die!

  76. Spencer | 5:22 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    We’ll do our best to provide security, but if not, avoid blender-wielding, dog-carrying ragamuffins.
    If he walks the dog instead of carrying it, it’s alright.

  77. Allan | 3:43 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Prohibit banger.

  78. Ashley | 1:53 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    No psychotics? Im not getting in there anytime soon!

  79. Crystal | 7:28 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Damn. How do I rescue the princess if I can’t bring in my explosives or swords?

  80. Raymund Victor | 9:03 pm |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Shaggy will be disappointed that the Pearl Tower prohibits ragamuffins from entering the building…

  81. joma | 10:10 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    One does not simply walk into mordor!

    Especially not with a contraband, police will beat you up!

  82. Jeremy | 10:26 am |  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    sadly, everything on that sign applies to me but the “no smoking” part.

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