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engrish funny steamboat cum

Steamboat C*m Restaurant

Submitted by: Karis Law + James Ditchem + Brittany Law via Engrish Funny Submissions

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  1. Jennifer says:

    Maybe they’re talking about the Latin “with”?

    “Steamboat with restaurant”

  2. Matt says:

    Second!
    Lame… :/

    • Droll not Troll says:

      No, you’re the First Lame.

      • JohnB says:

        The First Lame, isn’t that the one we call the Gold Lame?

        • dr handle says:

          That’s the one we call Faaaaaaaaaaaaaabulous!

        • Droll not Troll says:

          Matt gold? I thought it was shiny.

          • JohnB says:

            If you’ve got good enough wrestlers, you can get shiny mat gold.

            • dr handle says:

              AAAAARGH! Ghastly memory comes back – was sitting up in the middle of the night unable to sleep after a round of knee surgery, and some not-WWF-anymore came on, and one of the, er, participants was wearing GOLD LAME TIGHTS. TIGHT GOLD LAME TIGHTS. Either that, or someone spray-painted him from the waist down. JEEZUZ SUFFERING FECK I’d forgotten about that – until you reminded me. Pass me the mind bleach, Eunice, before I have one of my funny turns…

  3. JohnB says:

    Just remember all the health benefits of swallowing!

  4. dethscul says:

    A Steamboat…hmmm…is that like an “Around the World”, or just a “Half and Half” with a fancy name?

  5. Meowth says:

    It came out of the steamboat…

    • PoodleGroomer says:

      plowing a deep wake and churning a trail of white foam…

      • Meowth says:

        And when the she-boats laid their eggs in it, they eventually hatched into many little dinghies.

        • dr handle says:

          I now have a mental image of Sir Davy Attenborough, crouched behind a shrub on a river bank somewhere, earnestly whispering this explanation as the little dinghies hatch, and deploy their oars (which will of course be shed when they are mature) and go rowing off downstream on the spring melt flood to feed off the holidaymakers and fishermen in the river delta, where they will slowly grow up, and then return, when they are fully matured, steaming up river to the mating grounds, where the breeding cycle will begin again.

          • Meowth says:

            Ah, the life cycle of the North American Steamboat, the miracle of mother nature. As the dinghies mature, they must constantly watch out for schooners, their main predators. The mother steamboats will return to protect the hatchlings, but they can only do so much.

  6. saywhat says:

    Steamboat cumming ’round the bend!

  7. Some Guy says:

    Or it could be an Engrish fail, in that it could be correctly used/translated, as Jennifer suggests…less funny, though.

    From Wikipedia (that most trusty of sources):
    Etymology 1

    From Latin cum (“‘with’”).
    Preposition
    1. Used in indicating a thing with two roles, functions, or natures, or a thing that has changed from one to another.

    He built a bus-cum-greenhouse (= he converted a bus to a greenhouse) that made a bold statement, but the plants in it didn’t live very long.
    * p. 1926, a. 1950, George Bernard Shaw, Collected Letters: 1926-1950,[1] University of California/Viking (1985), page 31,
    He is too good an actor to need that sort of tomfoolery: the effect will be far better if he is a credible mining camp elder-cum-publican.

    • JohnB says:

      The elder-cum-publicans don’t belong here. They should be at the Fat Ho Elderly Centre!

    • Ecka says:

      Yes, Some Guy, you’re completely right – permit me to join you in your intellectually superior bubble for a minute and and guess that whoever submitted this as Engrish is a cave-living hunch-backed troll who never finished reading in Grade 5 and didn’t recognize ‘cum’ as a Latin word… so yeah, it’s an Engrish FAIL

      bubble *pop*

      hee hee, cum!

  8. chis says:

    who would wanna ride a steamboat in an ocean of well… you know.

  9. JohnB says:

    See, the way it works is if you see something nobody has joked about, you joke about it! Give it a try!

  10. PoodleGroomer says:

    Poems, limericks, and haiku are fun. If you don’t have a complete thought, post what you have and others might build on it. This site is like playing with HE in a land fill. It’s fun setting it off and you don’t know what is going to come raining down or from which direction.

  11. Droll not Troll says:

    As nobody else has said it:

    THAR HE BLOWS!

  12. saywhat says:

    yeah, yeah. cum is Latin for with. (2 yrs hs, 2 yrs college) but who, in translating between 2 languages is going to throw Latin in the mix? asking for trouble if anybody should ask me. God knows he gets what he deserves on this forum.


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