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Hello Penicillin!

engrish funny bye bye

Bye Bye STD
Call anywhere in India at 50/p min.

We must stop it!

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  1. Lugubert says:

    I don’t see anything funny with Subscriber Trunk Dialling.

    • JohnB says:

      I find some humor in “Dialling.” (Here in Kentucky, that SHOULD be a word, as in, “When you’re dialing a household without the intention of getting a specific member, you know, just to ‘dial y’all.’”) And in the fact that I didn’t expect anyone to point this meaning out until at least the fifth or sixth poster, since we only had this pointed out, oh I think the final count was 3,427 times, the last time we had an item about STD.

      • PoodleGroomer says:

        Do they have touch pads on cell phones there, or do you have to spin the crank to get an operator at central?

        • lexan D says:

          Don’t know about them thar folks down in Kaintuck, but up over heah we all use them new-fangled thangs.
          Them tin cans and strang work purty darned good.
          ‘cept when the goat gets out. Then we gits some static…

          • PoodleGroomer says:

            Out west, the phone company has a service to use phone voltage to electrify fence. Any time you need to make a phone call, you just hook the line set to the fence and dial. The static is from cows scratching their backs on the posts.

            • lexan D says:

              Seriously?

              • JohnB says:

                Absolutely! By the way, would you like to buy a bridge?

                • lexan D says:

                  Brooklyn?
                  Actually the Ben Franklin is pretty cool, too.

                  • PoodleGroomer says:

                    I represent a group with a large and valuable portfolio of investments. The recent budget overruns and tax collection restrictions may delay payments from the State of California and put us in a position of possibly being unable to meet bond obligations or gain refinancing. We have chosen to liquidate a key asset. I am able to offer, to you, the I-80 Oakland Bay Bridge. Google it with a query of : map, Treasure Island, Ca.
                    We own the foundation and the bottom deck. When it was engineered, they overbuilt it for earthquake resistance and it has stood up quite well with only repairable damage and not catastrophic collapse. The top deck was added later when traffic exceeded saturation limits. The critical nature of this connection necessitated the construction of a parallel bridge included in this deal, and will be opening soon. Our revenues come from the leasing of the bridge and the leasing and revenue sharing of the upper deck, collected from people coming from Oakland into San Francisco. We were not able to generate an adequate revenue stream from people wanting to go from San Francisco to Oakland, however there is structure in place to restore toll collection plazas in both directions. Electronic RFID toll collection has made toll collection even easier. Guaranteed money comes in when the lights flash from people driving by.
                    Think about it, but not for too long. I like you and think that this is an opportunity made just for you by the fates. When word gets out about this, you would never survive the bidding war and dirty politics that will ensue. I need your best offer and there isn’t much time.

                    • lexan D says:

                      Toll collection? Can hardly wait…

                      I am offering 5 internets and two kittehs, no, no, make that 10 internets and 3 feral cats.

                    • blueJade says:

                      This pitch has probably already been made, word for word… PG. that is scarily realistic, you’re pretty good!

                      • lexan D says:

                        He is good. Almost had me there for a moment with the electric phone-call fence and cows.
                        After all you never know with them thar folks out west, and dothca even get started on cows….. :-)

                    • Technical Difficulties says:

                      Not bad, as good as some of the genuine fraudsters’ email I’ve seen.

        • Technical Difficulties says:

          “Hello, Sarah? Can you get me Aunt Bee in Mumbai?”

      • Chad says:

        ….”dialing” IS a word…?

  2. PoodleGroomer says:

    Most STD’s can use penicillin as mushrooms on their morning omelet.

  3. Madness says:

    It looks like that guy is trying to catch it. “STD — don’t go!”

    • JohnB says:

      Reminds me of some bar scenes around closing time.

      • hollyr57 says:

        Dear heaven, YES! I found, in those days, that 2 a.m. was the perfect time to chat up some guy that looked like the Plague poster boy.

        • JohnB says:

          I always knew I’d had a really fine night when I found myself wondering, first thing in the morning, not, “Who is she,” but, “What species is this?”

          • lexan D says:

            Oh, lol!
            The lol’s are killing me today. I pulled a muscle yesterday and I am finding that when I laugh today my back arm/shoulder muscle spasms. This is really painful, I am trying really hard not to laugh.
            Ouch.

  4. JohnB says:

    I am now thanking God that we met here, and not in my office. I don’t think I have enough years left.

    • jinxed says:

      I know. If your wife came to visit you in the office, you’d be screwed.

      • la conejita says:

        Hey, getting screwed at the office sounds like a great fantasy. If it’s his wife doing the screwing to him, there’s no harm since he’s not cheating.

        • JohnB says:

          Yes, well since I work in a residential facility, and there are residents and staff 24/7/365, and not only do several coworkers but cleaning staff have keys to my office, I think it best that remain in the realm of fantasy.

          But don’t worry, Jinxed. Our institution is as dysfunctional as most human service/public health organizations, which means that people are always getting screwed at the office! I don’t get screwed nearly as often as the direct care staff, and when I do, I’m much better paid for it than they are, so like a true pro I learned many years ago to grin and bear it.

      • jinxed says:

        When I looked over my comment, I realized I had made a pun unintentionally. LOL!

  5. JohnB says:

    I only recognize the power of true demigods, such as Santa Claus and the Dreadful Pun Hell Fairy.

  6. jinxed says:

    I’m sick of these calling plans.

  7. Ben Dover says:

    Meh

    Why do we keep getting these STD jokes. Thats Subscriber Trunk Dialling….and it ain’t that funny

    • Pjotr says:

      As was pointed out above, this was pointed out before. And you even have the same spelling! How cute ;-)

      • TheCannyScot says:

        You say dialing, I say dialling. Now that think about it, it’s been quite a while since I did either, and I can’t remember *when* I last saw a phone with a dial.

        • JohnB says:

          I wonder if this is a UK-American thing. I seem to vaguely recall that besides the superfluous U’s there were also some extra L’s common to British usage.

          • Pjotr says:

            I dunno.. I’m neither a UK nor a US resident, so I get to make up my own mind. Generally prefer UK spelling though..

            • Droll not Troll says:

              Dialling is the usual spelling in Australia, or it used to be. That could be changing slowly.

              • blueJade says:

                Enough budget cut-backs, and you guys won’t be so free with your letters!

                • oh says:

                  Between federal and state budget crunches, I expect that before long our official language at my workplace is going to be Hawaiian, so that we can get by largely without our consonants. To beat the rush, I’ve transformed my name to its anticipated near-future form…

        • PoodleGroomer says:

          I just disconnected one in a house having phone line problems. It was full of spider webs that would start conducting, act like an answering phone, and not disconnect.

          • JohnB says:

            I was wishing I had one when I moved, 20-odd years ago, into an area of West Virginia where, when they hooked up our phone line, they didn’t put in tone service automatically. (You had to actually specifically request it!) Until they got it switched, I had to learn to dial a phone by hitting the flash button fairly rapidly the number of times I needed for each number. (No, I am not making this up!)

        • PoodleGroomer says:

          Secret Agent Maxwell Smart’s shoe phone had a dial.

    • dr handle says:

      Because some people find it funny? Der! If you don’t, well, Bye Bye Ben Dover.

  8. dr handle says:

    Finally, FINALLY, somebody has been listening to me faffing on about Using Protection!

    • KinkyTom says:

      did you ever say anything about a Hot Air Balloon?

      • Richard Heene says:

        Yes, please, let’s all talk about Hot Air Balloons! Believe me, I’m a well known expert on Hot Air! In fact, I am soon to be hosting my own Reality TV show, “Unguided Random Crappy Hot Air Balloon Rides,” in which people volunteer to take rides in random directions in hot air balloons made by me personally out of tin foil, duct tape, and helium. Oh, don’t worry, they’ll all be wearing tin foil hats for protection. So tune in! It’ll be, heh heh, the ride of your life! Or at least theirs…

        • Billy Mays says:

          SORRY, FOLKS, BILLY MAYS HERE TO LEND RICHARD A HAND. HE FORGOT TO ADD THE TAG LINE OF HIS NEW SHOW, SO I WILL. “AT LEAST IT WON’T COST YOU YOUR LIFE TO WATCH! BUT WILL IT COST THEIRS??” TUNE IN SUNDAY EVENINGS ON THE FANCYCRAP NETWORK! (Check your local listings for availability.)

      • Droll not Troll says:

        That’s not the kind of balloon you need to use to prevent STD, and it’s not hot air you put in it!

  9. lexan D says:

    For all the people looking for STD’s- wait this isn’t it.
    When looking at the top right corner it states – idea.
    Not the real thing.
    Yet.

  10. Mirai Suenaga says:

    Lol, Bye STD(Sexual Transmitted Disease)

  11. sunil says:

    STD here means “Standard Trunk Dialing” (Long Distance calls). and IDEA is a Cell Phone provider

  12. Someguy says:

    It’s not ‘engrish’ when its an abbreviation that stands for something else they intended. Enough with the STD fails please :)

  13. muiks says:

    XD. Its called contraceptives.


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