Comments on: And apparently no cricket bats either http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/ Engrish is NOW! :) Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:14:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eric Becker http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-142157 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:07:13 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-142157 Beyond awesome. A genius. He loved The Doors and Chaucer. What more could you want out of a HS English teacher?

]]> By: Eric Becker http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-142156 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:05:31 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-142156 You had Peskor. I had him twice: English 11 (1979) and Nature of Language (English 12 elective, Fall 1979). The man was brilliant. I teach HS English, and he’s my role model. He never got up from his seat behind his desk and still held us entranced–a genius of a teacher.

]]> By: polish girl http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-136950 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:54:50 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-136950 I KNEW THAT !!!

]]> By: The Fail Nerd http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-99214 Mon, 17 May 2010 01:33:54 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-99214 dude… i wonder what the goings-on are at a hardcore scenery area…?

Engrish sexy

]]> By: crazydave http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-73358 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:18:11 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-73358 James R Peskor?, Walt Whitman HS? He was awesome!

]]> By: disques durs http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-52737 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:38:20 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-52737 Ya offcourse Hardcore always rock and HARDCORE SCENERY AREA is my favourite, its really a fantastic area..

]]> By: paws4thot http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48480 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:53:15 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48480 I’ve never heard the “or when sounded as an ‘a’ ” bit before.

]]> By: JohnB http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48473 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:59:15 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48473 The drawing is not terribly high-quality, but it appears to be a square (in cross section) wooden kitchen match, of the kind most of us used to keep around the house until electrical stoves came to replace gas in most homes. I still find them indispensible in camping, for such tasks as lighting Coleman lamps. We haven’t been camping in several years, actually, but the Coleman lamps came in handy last February when we had that awful ice storm and were without electricity for five days (and we were lucky to have had it out only that long! Many folks in Kentucky went three weeks or more…)

]]> By: Droll not Troll http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48468 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:40:40 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48468 I think you nailed it. That makes a lot more sense, although I wouldn’t call it obvious. I just realised it’s been quite a while since I last used a match!

]]> By: Francisco http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48449 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:16:58 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48449 And that’s when the scenery area gets hardcore!

]]> By: JohnB http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48435 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:16:24 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48435 I’m sure you’ll feel foolish when I point this out, but it is, rather obviously, a burning match.

]]> By: Mark. Gooley http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48383 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:13:49 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48383 hardcore scenery = especially attractive scenery? Colloquially that makes sense though it’s a strange way to say it, but on a sign it’s still downright comical.

]]> By: Droll not Troll http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48329 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:09:15 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48329 I seem to be in touch with my feminine side. Fortunately, she enjoys it.

]]> By: Deja Vu http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48328 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:04:53 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48328 I didn’t hear one.

]]> By: Droll not Troll http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48327 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:03:24 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48327 I didn’t hear one.

]]> By: Absinthetic http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48303 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:40:57 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48303 Oh snap!

]]> By: JohnB http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48287 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:15:00 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48287 I always thought X in a square was a strike.

]]> By: JohnB http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48286 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:12:14 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48286 Thank Mr. James R. Peskor, my 10th grade English teacher, and the first teacher I ever had who really taught the most important thing, how to think.

]]> By: hollyr57 http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48268 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:17:19 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48268 Is there an echo in this room?

]]> By: hollyr57 http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48266 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:16:39 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48266 “Sorry about the gender..” not “sure”! Sorry!

]]> By: hollyr57 http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48265 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:14:57 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48265 “Sorry about the gender change” not sure…sorry!

]]> By: hollyr57 http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48264 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:14:22 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48264 Sure about the gender change, Droll. Those folks without a gender specific name – well, I usually assign them one on the basis of how interigent they sound (giggle and snicker). Because you’re so quick-witted I gave you the wrong gender. **waiting to be hit with cries of “Sexist”. All in jest, guys.
I liked your Christmas memory. All families have them I think. When my two daughters were growing up they complained about the fact that there were no Halloween carols. So we made this one up and still call each other and sing in each Halloween:
(sung to the tune of Jingle Bells)
*Jingle bats, jingle bats
flying through the air,
in your little red felt hats
you look so debonair*

]]> By: hollyr57 http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48262 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:04:55 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48262 Yaawwwnnnnnnnn

]]> By: Droll not Troll http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48231 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:50:27 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48231 And on that farm he had a god……
With a wofo wofo here, …..

]]> By: Nic http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48211 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:04:07 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48211 lmao!!!

]]> By: dr handle http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48196 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:57:38 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48196 Old MacDonals was dyslexic,
IEOEI

]]> By: Droll not Troll http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48173 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:29:13 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48173 Meaning “Do not”?
Or maybe Wing Ding is the name of the signwriter. :P

]]> By: Droll not Troll http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48172 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:24:35 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48172 Hey, Holly! I’m male. Or did you make a typo?
I never heard JohnB’s exception before, either; I just seem to be able to remember the exceptions. I don’t like to get hung up on the correctness, though, since these words can be a rich source of LOLZ.
I still remember my young brother, one Christmas many years ago, reading from the side of the box the tree lights came in: “These lights are weird…….”. What it actually said was “These lights are wired in series”. To this day, one of us is likely to use his version, any time something with lights isn’t working right.

]]> By: hollyr57 http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48165 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:38:26 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48165 And so effective!

]]> By: Shawn Welch http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48149 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:41:35 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48149 I believe that X in a square is a Wingding

]]> By: hollyr57 http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48138 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:18:26 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48138 So it was my educators that let me down!! They only gave me part of the I before E mantra. Thank you DSS and bobzilla and, well DNT didn’t really help me with this conundrum but she made me laugh! So thanks!

]]> By: JohnB http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48130 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:57:48 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48130 The way I learned the rule was:

I before e except after c,
or when sounded as “a” as in sleigh or weigh.
Exceptions: Sheik seized weird height weir either neither leisure.

]]> By: JohnB http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-48117 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:17:00 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-48117 Yeha, it’s a remarkably effective approach. Tell an addict to “just say no” to drugs. So simple!

]]> By: Droll not Troll http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47992 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:00:18 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47992 Old MacDonald had a farm,
EIEIO…

]]> By: hollyr57 http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47978 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:38:16 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47978 So safe sight-seeing is no sight-seeing? Is this that old “Just say NO” to sight-seeing campaign? The original one worked soooo well.

]]> By: Droll not Troll http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47977 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:36:35 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47977 I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be a thermometer, but why they thought it belonged on the sign is another mystery.

]]> By: hollyr57 http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47973 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:24:07 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47973 Bobzilla is one of my husband’s several nick-names. You surely are not the bobzilla in my house, are you? You don’t use his speech patterns. Very astonishing coincidence.

]]> By: bobzilla http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47971 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:52:59 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47971 To be summed up in three words (one being a contraction),
because it’s dumb.
More: Vein, reign, neighbor, beige, deity, feisty, eight, et cetera…

]]> By: bobzilla http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47968 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:32:08 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47968 Speaking of putting out….

]]> By: hollyr57 http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47942 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:30:33 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47942 Dear Dreadful Spelling Sprite,

Why doesn’t “weird” conform to the I-before-E-except-After-C rule? I have often wondered this to myself and now am lucky enough to be able to wonder it to the DSS.

Sincerely, Wierd Hol Yankee Witch

]]> By: cobrasnakenecktie http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47852 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:42:27 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47852 and the whole cricket bat in the fire part. that is quite odd.

]]> By: Rena http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47833 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:19:03 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47833 That’s why they’re putting it out, before they get caught.

]]> By: Alice http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47787 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:31:08 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47787 I used to.

]]> By: Meowth http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47784 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:26:51 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47784 I don’t play the game… Sorry… I just give tips on it. I’d say my most effective range is about five feet in front of me, though, since I just throw coins at my opponent.

]]> By: Patty http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47771 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:57:25 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47771 The scenery prefers Brazillian waxing, or so I’ve erm…seen.

]]> By: Crumpet http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47737 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:36:48 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47737 Yet another case of totally appropriate avatar facial expression (:

WIN!

]]> By: Dracula http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47736 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:34:09 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47736 Of course you have, although you might not have realized it at the time.

]]> By: JohnB http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47735 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:33:04 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47735 But you knew we were playing hardball here, didn’t you?

]]> By: JohnB http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47734 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:31:35 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47734 Dreadful Spelling Sprite would be glad to correct your spelling here, if it were entirely clear whether you intended to say “euphemism” or “euthanasia.”

]]> By: JohnB http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2009/08/12/engrish-firemaking-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-47733 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:29:31 +0000 http://engrishfunny.com/?p=12112#comment-47733 Dreadful Spelling Sprite notes that “weird” is spelled weirdly.

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