Say What?
And yet more 'anguished English'…
(MIXED-UP METAPHOR)
‘Once you let the horse out of the barn, it’s hard to get it back in again. It snowballs and has a life of its own, kind of like a computer virus.’
(ADVERTISMENT)
‘HAVE FAMILY, would like to exchange for home in Amsterdam.’
(ACCIDENTS HAPPEN)
‘A cow wandered into my car. I was later informed that the unfortunate cow was half-witted.’
(STOP PRESS!)
‘OLD SCHOOL PILLLARS ARE REPLACED BY ALUMNI’
(COURT REPORT)
Q: ‘Have you ever tried to commit suicide?’
A: ‘Yes, sir.’
Q: ‘Were you ever successful?’
(MEDICAL REPORT)
‘Coming from Detroit, Michigan, this man has no children.’
(WRONG WORD?)
‘They performed without musical accomplishment.’
(SIGN OF THE TIMES)
Posted in a Canadian hospital: ‘Flu doesn’t take a holiday and neither do we! - Memorial Hospital / Closed Thanksgiving Day’
(ADVERTISMENT)
‘Our bikinis are exciting.
They are simply the tops!’
(STOP PRESS!)
‘HERE’S HOW YOU CAN LICK DOBERMAN’S LEG SORES’
(MIXED-UP METAPHOR)
‘He threw a hundred pitches in six innings, and that’s a mouthful.’
(LOST IN TRANSLATION)
On the door of a hotel room in Moscow: ‘If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.’
(COURT REPORT)
‘In your opinion, how far apart were these vehicles at the exact time of collision?’
(STOP PRESS!)
‘MAN MINUS EAR
WAIVES HEARING’
(EPITAPH)
in Highgate Cemetery:
‘Here lie the bodies of two infants dear,
One’s buried at Connaught, the other here.’
(MIXED-UP METAPHOR)
‘Once you let the horse out of the barn, it’s hard to get it back in again. It snowballs and has a life of its own, kind of like a computer virus.’
(ADVERTISMENT)
‘HAVE FAMILY, would like to exchange for home in Amsterdam.’
(ACCIDENTS HAPPEN)
‘A cow wandered into my car. I was later informed that the unfortunate cow was half-witted.’
(STOP PRESS!)
‘OLD SCHOOL PILLLARS ARE REPLACED BY ALUMNI’
(COURT REPORT)
Q: ‘Have you ever tried to commit suicide?’
A: ‘Yes, sir.’
Q: ‘Were you ever successful?’
(MEDICAL REPORT)
‘Coming from Detroit, Michigan, this man has no children.’
(WRONG WORD?)
‘They performed without musical accomplishment.’
(SIGN OF THE TIMES)
Posted in a Canadian hospital: ‘Flu doesn’t take a holiday and neither do we! - Memorial Hospital / Closed Thanksgiving Day’
(ADVERTISMENT)
‘Our bikinis are exciting.
They are simply the tops!’
(STOP PRESS!)
‘HERE’S HOW YOU CAN LICK DOBERMAN’S LEG SORES’
(MIXED-UP METAPHOR)
‘He threw a hundred pitches in six innings, and that’s a mouthful.’
(LOST IN TRANSLATION)
On the door of a hotel room in Moscow: ‘If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.’
(COURT REPORT)
‘In your opinion, how far apart were these vehicles at the exact time of collision?’
(STOP PRESS!)
‘MAN MINUS EAR
WAIVES HEARING’
(EPITAPH)
in Highgate Cemetery:
‘Here lie the bodies of two infants dear,
One’s buried at Connaught, the other here.’