Everybody’s doing it!
posted on 25 Feb 2010 in Engrish from Other Countries
I drowned — and now I have lots of friends!
Photo courtesy of JdFllute.
Found at Wadi Dhaika in the Sultanate of Oman.
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How to drown and be popular responsibly:
English speakers, don’t swim to the left.
Arabic speakers, don’t swim to the right.
All the cool kids are drowning…
The wet look is back in style!
Since drowning has become so popular lately, here are a few tips on successful drowning accidents compliments of the Muscat Municipality!
If you want to be popular, you have to be willing to swallow. Water..
Drown at the Wadi, out in the street…
Willy and the Poorboys are playin’
Bring a nickle, tap your feet.
Mom, they have a drowning workshop this Sunday… I’m dying to get enrolled!
Drowning by accident is now popular, drowning on purpose is so yesterday.
Congratulations from the Muscat Municipality! You just drowned!
If your friends wore a life preserver would you wear one too??
Oh man… I can’t wait to drown and be popular!
What I’m wondering is the shorter Hindi text underneath. What does it say, and does it say it correctly?
I wanna be a popular buoy too!
Drown you way to fame and fortune! Everybody’s doing it!
What a coinkydink! I just read “How to Win
Friends and Drown”
Keep away from Wadis. He pees in the pool.
That puffy, blue-in-the-face look is all the rage.
A question, not a caption: Wasn’t there a deodorant soap named Life Buoy that was supposed to protect you from bad smells?
Well, popular with the spectators, anyway…
I think Laura Palmer runs this park
Traffic accidents are so last year
Yes. Drowning is number one, on our popular ways to die. Followed by traffic accidents, gunshot, poison, and ceremonial disembowelment.
Interesting how Hindi is at the bottom of an Omani sign.
Stay away from deep waters, and don’t act like fools,
Stay away from the rivers, and oceans, and pools,
For the waters will drown you, and your body will lay,
On the side of the Wadi, for many a day.
(Sorry about that Johnny Cash)
Yes Pete.
These damn furreigners, can’t even speak their own language.
(Edit) Stay away from the rivers, pits, oceans, and pools.
The gulf states are full of Indian people who live there for work. The Hindi text is for them; but the thing is, what soes it say there?
“Drowning for Dummies” is available at our souvenir shop.
i hope you know how to float..and watch out for pirahnahs
It certainly is popular, but it plays hell with the repeat business.
This is how you kill Ugg-boot-wearing Twilight fangirls.
Get killed, get noticed.
and dont forget to buy life buoy soap to become even k00ler
The hindi text says:
Be careful near the Wadis! There is a danger of drowning! Please keep an eye on children!
All who drowned in the past have a minimum of 10,000 orkut, facebook friends in heavens…:)
I was drowning WAY before it became popular.
Redefining the term ‘fashion victim’
drowning accident are now popular???i’m not notice about it…thank you
While the life buoy protects you and your kids, it does not have the capacity to protect unfriendly grandparents or unwanted inlaws.
Please, i am connfused, what is Wadis??