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Rover turned

posted on 13 Aug 2014 in Engrish from Other Countries, Signs

Mom, what’s the expiration date on the cat?

Photo courtesy of Erich Oelschlegel.
Found at movie theater in Korea. 

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algernon
algernon
9 years ago

The budgie just flies away.

algernon
algernon
9 years ago

Perhaps it a lucky dip

DrLex
DrLex
9 years ago

My Saint Bernard won’t fit in there.

timmy
timmy
9 years ago

Make sure you put Mr. Tinkles water cup and box in the seperate container.

Marum
Marum
9 years ago

At least they got the sh correct on the pet bin.

GwydionM
9 years ago

They should have separate bins for cats and dogs.

Marum
Marum
9 years ago

I took my cat to see that movie.
But he said he preferred Warren Pearce.
(Cats talk funny)

Gooma
Gooma
9 years ago

In North Korea there are 94 bins identified by colour. If you get it wrong you will be sent to a Collective for Political Re-education.
Strangely; The manage to pick it all up in the one truck.

Marum
Marum
9 years ago

@Algernon. So did Tony Abbotts….So I hear.

Reinhard
Reinhard
9 years ago

There’s nothing Engrish about that. Just the bin for PET bottles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_terephthalate
Next please!

Whirled One
Whirled One
9 years ago

I don’t think this is actually Engrish. In Japan, at least, they refer to plastic water and soft drink bottles as “PET” bottles. Assuming this is also true in Korea, the sign is worded correctly.

Marum
Marum
9 years ago

Polyethylene terephthalate. PETB are now obsolete. (Thank God)
None of this crap should ever have been invented. They exist by the millions in our world’s oceans. Then when they finally grind down into micro-particles, all the marine animals ingest them.

Marum
Marum
9 years ago

BTW. We call them “PET Bottles” here in OZ too. I thought that was their normal name.

Sparky
Sparky
9 years ago

A pupil told his teacher he’d found a cat, but it was dead.
“How do you know that the cat was dead?” she asked her pupil.
“Because I pissed in its ear and it didn’t move,” answered the child innocently.
“You did WHAT?” the teacher exclaimed in surprise.
“You know,” explained the boy, “I leaned over and went ‘Pssst’ and it didn’t move”

Frank Burns
Frank Burns
9 years ago

Maybe all dogs don’t go to Heaven.

Marum
Marum
9 years ago

Not only that. But PET Bottles have been found to be giving off oestrogen compounds. So guys – If you find yourself growing boobs, DON’T DRINK THE WATER.

Frank Burns
Frank Burns
9 years ago

Now we know why the hot dogs at the concession stand are so cheap.

Marum
Marum
9 years ago

correction = PETP. (brain fade)

Stopchicks
Stopchicks
9 years ago

Yeah, this isn’t Engrish. The container is for PET bottles; the sign is correct.

Chuck
Chuck
9 years ago

Okay, PET refers to bottles, but where’s the fun in that ! I prefer to envision Koreans taking their animals to the movies.

BTW, a bunch of us went to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show at a small revue theatre in Montreal. On the way there, we came across an injured pigeon. Someone – not me – had the bright idea of smuggling it into the theatre.

At some point, the poor thing expired. A designated bin would have come in handy !

Lora
Lora
9 years ago

A police officer sees a man walking a lion out in the park. The policeman says “Hey, you can’t take a lion out for a walk here in the park! You should take him the zoo!”
“Okay, I will.” says the man, and he and the lion leave. But the next day the police officer sees the man walking his lion down a city street. The cop yells, “What are you doing? Didn’t I tell you to take that lion to the zoo?”
“Yes” the man said, “And now today I’m taking him to the movies.”

Gooma
Gooma
9 years ago

@Chuck. What was the movie that killed it? Harum Scarum?

Tricky Trixie
Tricky Trixie
9 years ago

Where’s yo bin?
‘Is bin rootin. Whwere’s yo bin?

Tricky Trixie
Tricky Trixie
9 years ago

@Gooma. Harum Scarum has been described as: “Unfortnately, the dumbest movie ever made.”

Biff the Understudy
9 years ago

They have a separate receptacle for those wooden cup-boxes the Japanese drink sake out of? Cool!

Droll not Troll
Droll not Troll
9 years ago

Polly ethylene terephthalate want a cracker?

Droll not Troll
Droll not Troll
9 years ago

The second bin from the left is for when there’s a cricket match in town.

Chuck
Chuck
9 years ago

@Gooma: The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

tadchem
tadchem
9 years ago

Do you have a license for your pet cat ‘Eric’?

Bernd
9 years ago

PET is for polyethylene terephthalate. eg in Austria we call them PET-bottles…

Marum
Marum
9 years ago

@Bernd. Nicht werfen deine Flache aus dem Fenster. 😛

Nu'est
Nu'est
9 years ago

PET is correct, it says “pet.can”. not funny.

kioku
kioku
9 years ago

That’s not funny. Pet is the term for a type of recyclable bottle in Japan. That’s not a mistranslation at all, so it really isn’t Engrish.. Also you see that term in many public places near recycle bins and garbage cans in Japan, so I’m surprised they didn’t notice this elsewhere.

kioku
kioku
9 years ago

Oh this was in Korea, well I’d imagine it’s fairly common there too.

notmrjohn
notmrjohn
9 years ago

Polyethylene terephthalate, commonly abbreviated PET, no periods, one of the easily recycled plastics ( triangle 1). No engrish here move along.

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