Seat of Our Pants » Engrish http://www.seatofourpants.com An around the world travel blog Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:55:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Travel Signs http://www.seatofourpants.com/2010/02/10/travel-signs/ http://www.seatofourpants.com/2010/02/10/travel-signs/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:55:33 +0000 Jaime http://www.seatofourpants.com/?p=3050 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I took this photo five years ago when exploring the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia. It might be my favorite descriptive, ever.

Really? That way is that way? Great! Thanks for your help, random sign.

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]]> http://www.seatofourpants.com/2010/02/10/travel-signs/feed/ 0 Myanmar Ads http://www.seatofourpants.com/2010/02/07/myanmar-ads/ http://www.seatofourpants.com/2010/02/07/myanmar-ads/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:29:20 +0000 Martin http://www.seatofourpants.com/?p=2976 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Some of the ads around here are really quite funny to our western advertisement-jaded eyes. Take the gem above: it tells you absolutely nothing about the product, and all about the nation’s love for heavy metal.

We’ve also seen a few instances of a certain disregard for the truth. If only this was true: I’d live forever too.

spirulina beer

We’ll keep an eye out for more gems. Stay tuned…

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]]> http://www.seatofourpants.com/2010/02/07/myanmar-ads/feed/ 0 Three Months Later . . . http://www.seatofourpants.com/2010/01/03/three-months-later/ http://www.seatofourpants.com/2010/01/03/three-months-later/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:54:14 +0000 Martin http://www.seatofourpants.com/?p=2631 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> . . . and we’re still trying to figure out what this notice means. Opera table I can guess, but what’s with all this stuff about Geezers?

As seen in a hotel in Haridwar.

 

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]]> http://www.seatofourpants.com/2010/01/03/three-months-later/feed/ 0 Copywriter Needed: Urgent! http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/12/12/copywriter-needed-urgent/ http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/12/12/copywriter-needed-urgent/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:47:57 +0000 Martin http://www.seatofourpants.com/?p=2391 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> We found this incredible piece of sales copy in the Himalayan the other day.

 

[...] dark frothy concotion to weave its fragrant magic on her senses while your soul twirls around her ring finger”.

 

Does this make you want to buy a cuppa joe or what!? Help!

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]]> http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/12/12/copywriter-needed-urgent/feed/ 0 Bole Mere Lips! http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/09/28/bole-mere-lips/ http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/09/28/bole-mere-lips/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:40:32 +0000 Martin http://www.seatofourpants.com/?p=1688 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Bole Mere Lipps

I love Uncle Chipps

It’ll give you large hipps

mayhap your pant seams they will ripp-s

 

Seatofourpants.com would like to challenge all our readers to come up with a better ending to that rhyme. Winner gets a free bag of Uncle Chipps (if available).

 

In other news, we’re having a short stop here in Manali before we head over to Dharamsala – home of the Dalai Lama in exile. We hope to spend five days there before we make another move, probably in the direction of Amritsar, the capital of the Sikhs and home to the Golden Temple.

 

Stay tuned!

 

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]]> http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/09/28/bole-mere-lips/feed/ 2 Signs & Such II http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/09/24/signs-such-ii/ http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/09/24/signs-such-ii/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:54:09 +0000 Martin http://www.seatofourpants.com/?p=1652 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I’d like to share a few more findings, if you don’t mind. Like this one from Malaysia. They’re VERY serious about their hand washing there.

 

litleitaly

This one’s from the eeh Italian quarters of Leh, India. We opted out.

 

eugsfran

A little gem from Chiang Mai, Thailand, where they spelled our surname as Eugsfran rather than Engstrom. Mostly funny because they copied it straight from my passport.

 

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]]> http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/09/24/signs-such-ii/feed/ 0 Signs & Such http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/09/23/signs-such/ http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/09/23/signs-such/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:09:57 +0000 Martin http://www.seatofourpants.com/?p=1641 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I admit it: I have a sickness. I can’t stop reading signs and postings everywhere I go. This leads to some fun findings now and then, especially in countries where English is spoken as a second language. The one above is from the other day. It’s HERBAL unoily oil, of course. Mmm. Nourishing.

 sesamegum

From our time in Vietnam. I don’t recall it as either tasty or delicious (yes we tried it). ‘Phonebook-ish’ pretty much sums that particular taste.

 oldgraveking

And on Samosir island we had the pleasure of visiting the Old Grave King! He didn’t have much to say though, having been dead for 140 years.

 

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]]> http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/09/23/signs-such/feed/ 0 Say What?? http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/08/14/say-what-2/ http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/08/14/say-what-2/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:51:28 +0000 Martin http://www.seatofourpants.com/?p=1302 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> When traveling, you are constantly exposed to languages you don’t understand. For some reason, my brain never stops trying to make sense out of what I hear and read. Sometimes, though, you just have to shake your head and move on.

 

Nothing to see here, folks …

 

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