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Wonder whether their regular ass gyro is any good…

Found in Paris France. Photo courtesy of Kenneth Chan.

A must swim destination?

Photo taken at Agua Azul in Mexico. Courtesy of Jan Huson.

Five new poster designs just went on sale at the Engrish.com Store. If people are having too much fun or there are missing feet in your vicinity, (or you are simply full of yearnings and dreams) these could come in handy.

Also to the calendar knowledge! You can now choose what month to start building your own print-to-order calendars.

Engrish.com Charity Pledge

Engrish.com pledges to give 10% ($1.00) from each poster sold during this month to the Red Cross to help those in need from the earthquake in Haiti. Last month we donated quite a bit with the sale of our hoodies - thank you for you!

Lets shopping at the Engrish.com Store!

Geddan （ゲッダン）, Engrish for “Get Down” is a meme phenomenon from Japan that has already come and gone, but started to catch on a bit in the US last year.  Geddan is a weird funny dance that originated from an intentionally made glitch in the Nintendo 64 video game “Goldeneye” and eventually made its way to real life video. This video from “Know Your Meme” at Rocketboom.com explains it all well:

Well, even if you didn’t get through the above video, you can still appreciate the more famous Geddan videos below. Here is the “horse head Geddan” video:

Ronald McDonald Geddan:

The “Bush Geddan” video shows the Geddan phenomenon’s age, but I thought it was good for a short laugh:

Americans get in on the act:

Spiderman gets down! (one of the more recent entries of Geddan):

Wanna change your wipe habit?  Do you know what is most important!?  Clean World has the answer with an attachable butt washer to attach to your existing toilet:

These jets are quite common in Japan, but are usually sold as an entire unit with the toilet.

Photo courtesy of Jeff Fuller. Found at “The Home Depot” store in San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines.

Yes! The winning time is at here! Enter the first ever Engrish.com Facebook contest to win up to a $100 shopping spree at the Engrish.com Store. Anyone can enter to win the following:

1st place winner: $100 shopping spree at Engrish.com Store

5 runner ups: Win a free “More Chinglish” book.

Entering is easy:

1. Become a fan of Engrish.com on Facebook if you are not one already (link here: http://www.facebook.com/engrishdotcom)

2. Go to the topic entitled “Win a $100 Shopping Spree!” within the discussion board (by clicking here)

3. Reply within the topic and tell us what your favorite Engrish is from Engrish.com (paste a link in your message).

4. Give brief explanation why it is your favorite (one-liners are fine - bonus points for those who write in ENGRISH!).

Some other notes:
• Winners will be selected at random
• Entries must feature Engrish found on Engrish.com! (no outside source such as Flickr, etc.)
• You must be a fan of Engrish.com on Facebook (found at: http://www.facebook.com/engrishdotcom) in order to qualify.
• The competition begins today (January 25th) and ends at midnight PST this Friday, January 29th.
• $100 shopping spree grand prize will be awarded in the form of a gift certificate - good for the purchase of any products in our store (subject to availability). Gift certificate can be used to pay for shipping charges as well. Customers will be responsible for the balance of any purchases over $100.

Have a luck and enter today!

Lets shopping at the Engrish.com Store

Engrish Hoodie - So finery the garment!

I heard it is cold out there (I don’t know - I live in Honolulu…), so I wanted to offer you a great deal on our hoodies - use the following coupon for 15% off any of them:

discount-the-hoodie

Coupon is good until January 20th, so don’t wait too long!

Engrish.com Charity Pledge
We also pledge to give 10% ($3.00) from each hoodie sold during this campaign to the Red Cross to help those in need from the earthquake in Haiti.

Lets shopping at the Engrish.com Store!

A recent submission from Korea featuring a Starbucks ripoff:

Flappucino please!

Photo courtesy of Joy Bear.

Happy New Year everyone.  The brog portion of of the site gets a bit neglected at the end of the year - combination of being both busy and taking my only vacation. Back to regular posting:

These tissues were found in Carrefour, City Centre in Doha - the capital of the conservative Islamic State of Qatar in the gulf region. Looks like they have a sense of humor over there:

Photo courtesy of “Grolsch Sipper”.

I think I finally found the best place to shop…

Photo courtesy of Samantha Tan.