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engrish funny water source

Save water , water is a source of.

Submitted by: MizuMeian via Engrish Funny Submissions

From an elementary school in Beijing

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  1. lexan D says:

    Whaddaya mean ya don’t know? Youse shouldda know what it’s a source of.

  2. baldrick says:

    Maybe the guy who painted the sign just got very thirsty and left.
    Left to have a drink in the castle of Aaaaarrrgh.

  3. Sibilance says:

    Just guessing at the Chinese, but “spring of life” seems pretty close. But seems the typist couldn’t find the dictionary..

  4. paws4thot says:

    water is a source of…
    Christmas puddings and penguins? – Going by the picture after the text that is.

  5. ShadowSplicer says:

    Water is a source of nothing?!

    • jinxed says:

      No, it’s a source of……

      • ShadowSplicer says:

        ……

        • Droll not Troll says:

          Frogs’ eggs?

          • dr handle says:

            Cholera?

            • JohnB says:

              The police have been trying to cholera, but she’s still on the loose.

              • Droll not Troll says:

                Oh, what a crappy pun!

                • dr handle says:

                  It certainly gave me the sh!ts.

                  • JohnB says:

                    Then you’re still on the loose, too.

                    • ShadowSplicer says:

                      DPH Fairy is gonna clonk you so hard, you might loose consciousness! *squeezes eyes shut/covers head*

                      • bluejade says:

                        Don’t worry, he’s wearing a reinforced tinfoil hat shaped like those sailor hats folded from newspaper. At worst, he ‘ll only be stunned.

                        • dr handle says:

                          Frankly, I don’t think that JohnB et al. even really notice clonking anymore, they just get the loyalty card stamped and head off to Dreadful Pun Hell. Speaking of which, would the person who left the lid off the self-serve popcorn machine NOT do that again, we were vacuuming the stuff up for hours.

                        • PoodleGroomer says:

                          We were working on our lines and costumes for the Valentine’s day DPH screening of “Rocky Horror”. Do you want the thigh high patent stiletto boots, or can I borrow your leather corset?

                        • toilet shark says:

                          You’ll have to wait until Mistress DPH Fairy is out of session. Isn’t it about time you started buying your own items? I noticed that yet another pair of my fishnets has been laddered without me even wearing them. Srsly, start your own femdom wardrobe.

                        • PoodleGroomer says:

                          I left a 6 pack of fishnets that disappeared after the JohnB dancers came through. I was loaning you my boots if you were going to play Rocky, or borrow you corset because they lost mine at the cleaners.
                          The DPH cleaners manager looks like he has lost 3 stone. His eyes look like he has glaucoma and he is smoking a lot of pot

                        • dr handle says:

                          At least he’s off the booze, he was putting that away at an astonishing rate. Frankly, I think we’re going to have to pension him off, and readvertise the job with added danger money.

                        • bluejade says:

                          Did someone say “job!!??”

      • bluejade says:

        Wetness?

        • Droll not Troll says:

          *facepalm* Nearly 60 comments and no-one else said it. WIN!

          • bluejade says:

            OMG I WON!!! …what did I win?

            • Droll not Troll says:

              A pack of ShamWow for the wetness.

              • ShadowSplicer says:

                And a new pair of underpants.

                • JohnB says:

                  From Black Man. (Come on, you Engrishers, dig deep into the memory banks, and/or the archives!)

                  • ShadowSplicer says:

                    Yay! I remember that post! Were they pink?

                    • JohnB says:

                      They certainly were, which I thought was kind of strange. I know the sheriff in Maricopa County, AZ, makes all the prisoners wear pink underwear and eat green bologna. So perhaps he gets his supplies of underwear from Black Man. (And I am really not making this up, but please don’t ask me to explain the logic. I’m not in Corrections. But having formerly been a Professional Deli Clerk, I can attest that green bologna is not at all hard to come by.)

                      • ShadowSplicer says:

                        I just received an email with some pics from that prison! I think his methods are great!

                        • JohnB says:

                          In my experience, the criminals who are not flat-out sociopaths tend to have low self-esteem and don’t believe they can succeed at any legitimate job. Subjecting them to humiliation won’t faze the sociopaths, but will just drive the rest deeper into self-loathing. Ordinary prisons are sufficiently punishing environments, believe me, because I’ve seen lots of them. You don’t need to add additional degredation to them.

                        • ShadowSplicer says:

                          I say it will mellow them out a bit.

                        • bluejade says:

                          Not to pry, but do you have the slightest idea what you’re talking about?

              • bluejade says:

                Wow!! I wonder how much I can get for all this new loot at the swap meet? New underpants from Black Man- too bad the guy’s not in them- Shamwows… what the heck, I’ll just give all this stuff direct to the landlord and maybe he’ll fix the windows…

  6. Dark says:

    Somebody’s listened one to many times to RATM’s “Killing in the name of” :/

  7. Ginger Snape says:

    it’s just ice cream!

  8. bluejade says:

    They ran out of water before they could finish the explanation.

  9. Madness says:

    Geez, I hate cliffhangers.

  10. Kame09 says:

    One of two things:
    -Sign creater had A.D.D., got distracted and made a different engrish sign.
    -He was killed mid sentence.

  11. person says:

    this is definitly engrish!

  12. PoodleGroomer says:

    No JohnB! We might have lost him to the big blizzard.
    Are you still online and OK?
    How bad is it?

    • bluejade says:

      I’m starting to feel the same way. Maybe he was standing too close to a snowplow…

      • ShadowSplicer says:

        I hope his work didn’t kick him off Engrish Funny……Please come back John! *has a sad*

        • la conejita says:

          John, wherever you are, just drop a line to let us know you’re ok.

          • la conejita says:

            Maybe he lost his internet access because of the blizzard and now he’s without Engrish and p0rn. How will he survive?

            • Droll not Troll says:

              Blizzard? Rly? Must check news sites.

              The water giveth and the water taketh away.

              • bluejade says:

                Weird, huh? How is it there?

                • Droll not Troll says:

                  Assuming you mean the weather, it’s been around the mid-30s for a few days. The forecast is for slightly cooler over the next few days, with a chance of rain tomorrow. I’m waiting for it to drop below 22C overnight for a change!

                  • la conejita says:

                    And assuming she means the other?
                    .
                    .
                    .
                    .
                    .
                    .
                    Just kidding, I don’t want to know.

                  • bluejade says:

                    How’s everything else? The economy where I am is sucking wind. People are losing their jobs.
                    I hope you get some rain!

                    • Droll not Troll says:

                      Our government has kept job losses to a minimum by spending up big. I’m waiting to see what that will cost us in the future.
                      The US debt is what, over $12trillion?
                      Not much rain where I am. Just enough to wake up the snails. From what I saw on the news, we need a weather report from Dr Handle. They had floods over there!
                      How is the weather where you are? I believe you said California, but I expect that state has a few different weather zones.

                      • JohnB says:

                        I’ve never been to California, but I’ve been to Arizona in the winter, and there you can pass through several different weather zones in an hour’s drive. Even in West Virginia, where the variation in elevation is much less and the size of the state is MUCH smaller, I used to run into roaring blizzards on mountaintops when there was just rain elsewhere.

                        And here in the states, of course, the government has been managing to spend hugely while not minimizing job losses and not accomplishing health care reform. But on the bright side, the Supreme Court recently recognized the right of corporations to spend vast sums of money on election ads. Viva democracy!

                      • bluejade says:

                        I am on the central coast of California, and we are getting rain up the whazoo. It is green, and lovely, and flowers are busting out all over. It may actually help with the employment issue as last year there wasn’t enough water to grow stuff. The official unemployment rate in farming areas was over 30%… Everyone I know is either out of work, or looking for more work to augment their income. My immediate group is piecing it together month-to-month. The state offers tax credits to hire people, but no one needs to hire! Business is bad across the board.
                        On the bright side, the whales are migrating, and I see them almost daily!!

                      • dr handle says:

                        Can’t talk – busy paddling.

    • JohnB says:

      ‘Snow problem! We got eight or nine inches, which is enough to paralyze this area. When we got six inches a couple of weeks ago, it was the biggest snowfall since 2004. I stayed home from work, since our street wasn’t even plowed until mid-afternoon, and I don’t have 4-wheel drive. But I shoveled my own and my parents’ driveway, which was a fairly long project, since my left shoulder is still bothering me since I fell off the porch in December. Then we got another inch of snow. My wife and my daughter also came down with a nasty gastrointestinal bug on Friday, which my wife still hasn’t gotten over, so I’ve been doing a lot of waiting on them. Fortunately, I managed to avoid picking it up. So besides my aching shoulder and back, I’m fine. But it’s nice to be missed!

      • Droll not Troll says:

        Could be worse, then, although it’s the worst time to get a stomach bug, IMO. All those visits to a cold toilet when you’re probably shivering anyway!

      • jinxed says:

        Welcome back JohnB!

      • la conejita says:

        Well, don’t do that to us again, ok. I was worried and was planning on grabbing the yellowpages of KY and calling everyone named John to make sure you were OK.

        I had it all planned. I would ask whomever I call to complete the sentence

        Curry Egg…..

        If they got it right I would ask how are you.

        • JohnB says:

          Wow, that could be a cool spy password code!

          You: Curry egg?
          Me: Pineapple horseshoe crap.
          You: So you must be Agent JohnB!
          Me: Yeah, it’s a dirty job, but Mike Rowe won’t do it.

          • la conejita says:

            My idea was pretty clever even though I didn’t get to use it. Not many others would work. Example:

            Me: Water is a source of…..
            You:…………………
            Me:…………………
            You:………………..
            Me:………………..
            You:………………
            Me:…………………

            You get the point.

      • bluejade says:

        For the shoulder/back:
        Heating pad
        Square of wool saturated with castor oil between you and heating pad
        Towel between pad and couch
        1/2 hour of time

        • lexan D says:

          Thanks for posting that! I’ll have to try that. Not only am I sore and achy, my back hurts from shoveling and clearing massive amounts of snow.
          Good to see JohnB is back. :)

        • JohnB says:

          The shoulder gets inflamed when I use it much, so I usually go for the ice. If I have time for a whole routine I’ll heat it, then do PT exercises I’ve learned, and then ice it down when I’m done. The back I have numerous appliances, potions, and devices for, since I’ve had back trouble on and off for 30 years, more on than off for fifteen. I have declined several offers for surgery. I tell you, if you’re young and aren’t in pain right now, cherish it! There is no longer any time in my life when I don’t have something that’s hurting, and I’m actually in better health than many of my cohorts.

  13. Someone says:

    Remember kids, always make sure you get enough vitamins and penguins!

  14. NLDxb says:

    Actually it’s still being painted.

    By a ninja.

  15. olololwtfomg says:

    Dont you see on the lower left … water is the source of PENGUINS. Or is it just commas? Hell i dont know :-b

  16. MeowTseTongue says:

    There is more engrish after the period. It was written in invisible ink, however.

    By a ninja.

  17. dr handle says:

    There’s a picture under the text, clearly indicating that water is a source of happy ducks wearing shower caps. That’s why it’s so important to save water, otherwise the ducks can’t be happy, and their little shower caps become redundant. That’s right, folks, every time you waste water, a duck LOSES ITS SHOWER CAP and BECOMES MISERABLY UNHAPPY. You heartless bastards.

  18. lexan D says:

    Ah, I see what happened. Someone else threw a toilet to prevent that special information about the water from getting posted.

  19. Teehee says:

    Ignorant fools! The creator of the sign clearly wanted people to save some water for him and then ended up dying of thirst mid-sentence.
    What i wonder however, is why that penguin is there?

  20. insane says:

    This sign is a.

  21. ttk says:

    So close, yet so.

  22. la conejita says:

    Maybe the person writing the sign was high on water, just like I am right now. He never got a chance to finish his

  23. vlark says:

    this engrish funny should be really be called “lots good english”

  24. Water is a source of what? We may never know! Clickie!

  25. DrLex says:

    “water is a source of”, and then the sign maker drowned.

  26. pat says:

    Well, it’s obvious that it is the source of periods.

  27. Exiled says:

    Well… glad to see that JohnB survived the blizzard, although it didn’t sound all that awful to me.

    I believe the sign is Zen.

    “Water is the source of…” but then he realized that water is the source of life, which in turn is the source of everything and there is no way to summarize the universe and therefor not only fell silent but stopped writing too.

  28. Passerby says:

    NO!!!

    YOU DON’T GET IT!!!!

    Water is a source of DIHIDROGEN MONOXIDE!!!!!

    It’s a serious menace!!! It’s an environmental catastrophe!!! IT MAY KILL US ALL!!!

    BUT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW, THAT’S WHY THE WRITER WAS SILENCED!!!!

    IT’S A CONSPIRACY!!!

    Visit the link!!! Spread the word!!! The world must kno

    • Passerby says:

      (the link is in my name. I can’t post it openly, or they will get me)

      • JohnB says:

        If you think dihydrogen monoxide is dangerous, then you know NOTHING of hydrogen hydroxide! THAT is a most PERNICIOUS EVIL!!! It regularly suffocates people! To death, even. It has two solid forms, one a crystalline matrix that wreaks havoc with transportation and causes numerous fatal accidents, and a more conventional solid that is even WORSE! On the roads the dastardly substance can appear to be ordinary water, while just a thin coating can cause instant loss of vehicle control. A thicker coating downs power lines, makes even walking impossible, and destroys or damages countless trees and valuable foliage. HYDROGEN HYDROXIDE MUST BE BANNED!!!!!

  29. Anonymous says:

    Ummmmm….well the third kanji reads “life” so I’m gonna assume it’s supposed to say water is a source of life :P There, spoilt your fun?

  30. Gaarazkity says:

    Water is a source of penguin.

  31. blokeice says:

    all penguins mysteriously form from water thus we must conserve water or penguins will shuely go extinct.

  32. D_O_Y says:

    Water is the source of… the picture below? So I’m going to assume water. Is the source of extremely happy penguin sailors?… But what it’s doing is obscured by leaves … O.O Quick destroy the water, before the penguins terrorists get us. !!!

  33. Thalia says:

    Obviously, water is a source of laughing penguins. See the picture?


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