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Even Amazon Japan gets things wrong - it should obviously be: “Lux Frip Frops Brack”… 

Screenshot sent in by Sean Bulkley.

A commenter in the post from last week entitled “Pooh Biscuits” pointed out this book that can be found on Amazon: 

Think of the endless recycling possibilities! 
The Amazon reviews are pretty funny too.

Someone pointed out this unique site that ‘Engrishifies’ Garfield cartoons by the Engrish.com method - translating the text to Japanese and then back to English. Here are some of the better ones I saw:

Hat-tip to ‘Poingly’ for the link.

Found a new source of Engrish on the web - Dunglish.nl, which showcases interesting English phenomena from the Netherlands and other Western European countries. I learned that Dutch and English collisions are known as ‘Dunglish’, whereas German (Deutsch) English mishaps are referred to as ‘Denglish’. I guess there is a word for every Engrish depending on the [...]

You may remember the Engrish post for Men’s Egg, which is a popular fashion magazine in Japan targeting men in their young teens and early 20’s.  Well, someone recently informed me about the Men’s Egg online store, which offers the latest in fashionable clothing and is loaded with the latest brands such as: “DEADLY JESTER”, “Murder License” [...]

There is another new iTunes software taking advantage of an Engrish explanation to gain poopularity: Japanese OMiKuJi. (we found this other one last October).  An omikuji is a random fortune written on a small piece of paper that you can obtain at a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple with a small offering. Why bother to go to [...]

This book is now perhaps the most famous real Engrish book on Amazon.com.  The author apparently used a computer program to translate his theories about anal constriction from Japanese into English Engrish. Some of the reviews on Amazon are as funny as the book seems to be. 

Back cover of the book: 

 Judging from the reviews on Amazon, some people bought [...]

Below is a screenshot of an article from the English portion of a Korean publication. Looks like President Lee is either into Brazilian men or he got a nice shave…  

You can click on the screenshot image to see the original website - as of today (2/5/09) it has not been corrected. 
Thanks to Mike Crowe [...]

Guidespot.com has collected a bunch of funny menu photos from Flickr. Check out their collection here. 

Fuji Airways decided to name their guidebook “FAG”.  Not that there is anything wrong with that…
Hat tip to Josh Wheeler for the link.