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It’s an awesome black market mix - all the super heroes is come!  Hey, leave it to the Chinese manufacturers to bring us some efficiency that we can only dream about here in the U.S. - I see DC, Marvel, Disney and possibly Bandai (?) all in one mix together here:

They don’t look so super close up:

This is not the first post of superhero bootlegged packaging - check out this Brog post from a couple years back.

Photos courtesy of Lesley Langford and Michael Humlicek.

New shirt design at the Engrish.com Store - the Bravo! Pig!  Our iconic figurehead of this Brog (look up!), the Bravo Pig originated from this classic Engrish entry way back in 2003.

The shirt will ship from March 30th, so we are offering a special pre-sale offer - in addition to the sale price of $16.95, use the following coupon for 15% off the shirt:

bravo-pig

Coupon good until March 30th. 15% discount applied to new design only.

Lets shopping at the Engrish.com Store!

Fake or not? You be the judge:

Photo courtesy of Chot Whetherington. Found at Asian market in Tulsa Oklahoma.

These ‘duration elongating capsules’ were found at a sex shop in Chongqin, China. Not only can you choose the best penis, one grain will last you 200 hours - talk about potency!

Small text in lower right reads:

- The best across the globe of the same category
- Long duration, improves your sexual function fundamentally
- Pure natural prescription, no side effects
- Hypertension, heart disease patients are secured to use

Photo courtesy of Mark Hamilton.

Here are the contents of another viral email that has gone around - apparently originating from the Philippines. Generally speaking Filipinos are good English speakers, but it seems you can find some Engrish here and there.

I have seen this last one before - not sure if it actually originated in the Philippines or not:

Maybe it’s just a typo, but you’d think that a large corporation like Best Buy would have caught something like this…

Photo courtesy of Blake V.

This photo of a Japanese used PC and computer parts shop has been making the rounds on the internet recently. It is not just a cheap rip-off of Microsoft Windows - the word ‘binbo’ （貧乏）in Japanese means ‘poor’, so the bilingual pun works on a promotional level as well (to sell their ‘ultra-cheap’ computer parts as the characters on the far left signify).

The Winblows Windows logo is just an inverted version of their old logo, so this shop sign may not be around for too much longer if MS can help it.

Found in a recent post from The Consumerist. Location in Japan unknown.

New shirt design at the Engrish.com Store - Toaster Tee, based on this popular Engrish entry from earlier this year.

The shirt will ship from March 15th, so we are offering a special pre-sale offer - in addition to the sale price of $16.95, use the following coupon for 15% off the shirt:

toast-the-engrish

Coupon good until March 15th. 15% discount applied to new design only.

Let’s shopping at the Engrish.com Store!

Funny commercial for bananas from Dole (English translation below):

Girlfriend: We have been going out for almost 3 years…
Boyfriend: Delicious.
Girlfriend: Why are you eating that banana…
Boyfriend: Sorry.
Girlfriend: It’s about time (I introduce you to my parents)…
Boyfriend: Delicious.
Girlfriend: Why are you eating bananas…
Boyfriend: Sorry.
Girlfriend: After going out for 3 years, it’s time we…
Boyfriend: Delicious.
Girlfriend: Are you listening?
*banana tips open up*

Around 34 seconds into the video, you can see the dog make a big grin when his master asks “wanna go for a walk?”.  He doesn’t seem to smile at all to strangers (1:14).

The master goes on to say that his dog really started to smile a year after he took him in. He is so cute he has become an “idol” in the neighborhood.