Comments on: Quick, before he comes back from lunch!

By: J

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:58:39 +0000

It doesn’t even make sense in Chinese…

By: Uvi

Uvi — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:20:59 +0000

BOSS NO HERE! YOU TAKE! YOU GO!

By: Meowth

Meowth — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:50:43 +0000

Believe it or not!

By: Meowth

Meowth — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:49:42 +0000

Their stock of aliens?

By: Cal

Cal — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:58:20 +0000

yeah, the english translation is actually correct, the boss ditched the store so they’re just emptying their stock

By: Meowth

Meowth — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:02:33 +0000

Where it is the centerpiece.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:01:57 +0000

Tell me about it!

By: Meowth

Meowth — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:01:34 +0000

My hero, Zero.

By: fgasdgfasdfasdf

fgasdgfasdfasdf — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:08:32 +0000

the english translation is correct lol

By: dr handle

dr handle — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:13:00 +0000

That pun is so utterly dreadful on at least two levels that Dreadful Pun Hell fairy doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry…

By: Daddy

Daddy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:18:34 +0000

Goombel:
The interdimensional real estate market has collapsed and I own a bunch and am the default lender of more on the forfeiture market. I found an Earth Study assistant with degree credit and paycheck at the Dr Janegoodall institute. We have seen her films and would believe anything you say. Zworm some dimensireps so we can see you and the beasties. I need to change the filter and add fresh Higgs bosons when you get in for Weebledaing after the Big U Toofllab game. Mumsy and I Love you. Daddy

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:03:03 +0000

Maybe you meant “quickly, before he comes back from *launch*,” given the store name…

By: dr handle

dr handle — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:52:01 +0000

Dear Dad,
Thanks for the reminder, you killjoy. Ever since I was a broodling, you have been the wettest of wet blankets. I still remember how upset I was when you told me that Father Weebledaing and the Bengo Bunny weren’t real – I found that out three revolutions before anyone else in my class. But anyway, I have completed my tenure, so my grant is safe. However, having been reviewing my material – there is so much data here – I’m starting to worry that this species is so bizarre that nobody will believe anything I’ve observed. In the best traditions of sociology, I may just have to make it up in order to make it believeable. Say hi to Mum, and tell her that I haven’t crashed my travel module, see you for Weebledaing, Goombel.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:25:37 +0000

… which is located in the foyer of the Engrishfunny headquarters.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:23:19 +0000

He has a Germanium a$$? This just gets wierder….

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:21:33 +0000

I’m calling Ripley. BOTH of them!

By: lala

lala — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:35:52 +0000

it means the same thing in the chinese words lol

By: dr handle

dr handle — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:13:34 +0000

Zero the hero?

By: Taneen

Taneen — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:25:27 +0000

Thought for a moment the boss ran way with the spoon and the alien laughed to see such fun… and the customer jumped over the moon (half price bargains after all!!).

By: Meowth

Meowth — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:19:35 +0000

Just make sure he doesn’t use his Geass on you.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:18:09 +0000

It is next to the fountain of misunderstanding.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:14:51 +0000

Well, I was Saved by Zero.

By: la conejita

la conejita — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:03:17 +0000

No. They multiplied by zero.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:53:42 +0000

Just as long as they didn’t divide by zero.

By: la conejita

la conejita — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:47:09 +0000

Yes, they used to be $0 and now they are half off.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:52:00 +0000

You have found the Source of Limitless Mistranslations?
*deep bow*
Consider me your humble Engrish apprentice.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:48:00 +0000

You’d better call Sigourney Weaver, then.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:39:23 +0000

And all LOLZ are half price!

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:36:52 +0000

The boss has run away. Quick! Everybody log on to Engrishfunny.com and have LOLZ before he gets back.

By: Mike S.

Mike S. — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:32:35 +0000

The Chinese (it is Chinese) literally says “The Boss/owner Run Away, Entire Store Half Price.” In Chinese is not necessary to conjugate the verb, so it is implied “The boss has run away” i.e. “the boss has hit the road” etc. The Chinese is attempting to be playful in this way.

In English of course, if the verb is not conjugated it usually means the imperative form, source of limitless mistranslations.

By: OtterAbroad

OtterAbroad — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:48:13 +0000

Ooooh, half-price aliens! Just what I always wanted! My Christmas shopping is now complete!

By: giovanni

giovanni — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:25:04 +0000

The sign does say ‘boss has run away’.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:46:14 +0000

Goombel:
Remember that the grant contract has a minimum study duration clause. Cutting the study short and not having an acceptable thesis and power-point will force a review and possible forfeiture and refund of grants and travel expenses. It should be better than any of the jackass studies and at least up to a Michael Moore film.
Daddy

By: alien

alien — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:41:06 +0000

he didn’t run away, we abducted him

By: Queen o'Sarcasm

Queen o'Sarcasm — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:43:01 +0000

Oh no that food id revolting and the Boss is too!

By: la conejita

la conejita — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:20:27 +0000

So the boss is afraid of hiring illegal aliens. That makes sense.

Will the residencies be at half off?

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:16:51 +0000

ALIEN. In space, no one can hear you burp.

By: DrLex

DrLex — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:25:13 +0000

I bet the food hugs your face and bursts out of your stomach a day later.

By: dot...dot...dot...

dot...dot...dot... — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:43:35 +0000

the chinese actually does say the boss ran away and everything half price…

though that alien bit defeats me…

By: lexan D

lexan D — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:52:49 +0000

I understand this boss.
A long time ago, in the previous century, when I was a boss there were times when this might have seemed like a good idea.

By: General Lord Saber of the Ongoing Joke

General Lord Saber of the Ongoing Joke — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:03:09 +0000

So… They’re telling the boss to run away because everything’s half price? What? The Hell?

By: dr handle

dr handle — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:04:03 +0000

Maybe he just couldn’t take those screwball humans any more.

“Dear Aunty Thargollia, I have finally finished my experiments; I have had enough of this nutjob planet, and am coming home. I have enough material to write up my thesis – good grief, this planet has enough happening on it to keep the entire Sociology school of the Studia of Greater Ooglethord going for a decade at least – and frankly, I’m looking forward to leaving. They are absolutely incomprehensible; they have all these rules formalising their languages, how they should be written and spoken (I have three whole chapters on their concept of “grammar”) – then they go and write the most bizarre things! I have busted both my brains trying to understand them, but maybe there are just some things in the universe that Flumblekind were just not meant to comprehend. I look forward to seeing you again for the Weebledaing holidays, lots of love, Goombel.”

By: KinkyTom

KinkyTom — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:50:53 +0000

maybe it’s illegal aliens <.<

By: KinkyTom

KinkyTom — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:48:50 +0000

I’m guessing he drives a Super Power Exploiter

By: ShadowSplicer

ShadowSplicer — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:43:40 +0000

In Soviet Russia, we pay YOU!

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:31:33 +0000

Maybe it was the “all half price” that made the boss run away. (I’ve known many bosses to whom that would be terrifying.) And since he calls his store, “Alien,” perhaps he is one.

By: MeowTseTongue

MeowTseTongue — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:19:49 +0000

I was thinking the same thing hahah.
I just wish i could say something funny @ the whole image.

::insert witty line about the correlation between a missing boss and half prices::

There we go:)

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:09:47 +0000

Apparently, the boss is afraid of aliens.

By: Madness

Madness — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:50:23 +0000

I agree. It’s very cute.

By: Madness

Madness — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:49:52 +0000

And take another 1/3 off and they’d be paying YOU!