El Arroyo drip-feeds the masses with little scraps of knowledge about themselves. Now they’re telling us that “anything unrelated to elephants is irrelephant.” What could it mean? Are the tacos El Arroyo selling made of the other, other, other white meat? Are they part of the illicit ivory trade, or are they part of the destructive and sad elephant-poaching industry?
Oh why hello there, the kindly officer of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, why don’t you come this way? Yes, it is a funny sign, but why don’t you take a look inside? Look at the wastebaskets – I’ve heard they turn ivory into wastebaskets.
It Would Have Made it Into the News
The song tells us that everyone was kung fu fighting, but as this El Arroyo sign says, there's no way it was everyone. There would have been mass panic – the fights would have spilled into bars, hockey arenas, and homes of male feminists – places where there is never physical violence!
El Arroyo has taken a stand since they're tired of people overstating just how prevalent the kung fu fighting was. Thanks for raising a good point, El Arroyo, you mysterious leader of the funny signs industry. Maybe one day you will tell us some useful information.
Hokey Pokey
Addiction is a struggle many people have to deal with. This sign-writer has made sure he or she is on the path to recovery by recognizing how important control over your own life is, and how important to the people around you – hang on, I've been handed a note. Let's see...hokey pokey... right-hand in... right-hand out...oh.
Oh. Well, come on now, the sign is making light of a very serious situation that a lot of people are struggling with. Hokey Pokey addiction is no laughing matter – hang on I've got another note. Oh. At least everything went well in the end.
Gotta Love Translation Fails
Chinese food has spread to nearly every corner of the world. It's pretty much available in every big city in the world, and considering they have a massive population hovering around 1.4 billion, it should come as no surprise that Chinese eateries can be found nearly everywhere. Most people have tried Chinese food at least once. Be it in their home country or even in China itself.
Sometimes, though, English-speaking customers may have difficulties understanding the English signs or slogans accompanying Chinese cafeterias. English is a tough language to master if it's not your native language, and thanks to clumsy Chinese-to-English translations, signs that are supposed to lure in customers are actually better at causing outbursts of manic laughter.
Absolute Zero
Scientists have been hard at work plumbing the depths of how just frigid and unloving something can get, which might be why you have not seen the person who so cruelly broke your heart. Ever thought of that?
Plus, if you need something to help you forget that person, maybe around the middle of February – we're just throwing a date out here – then those same scientists have found out how to get your favorite bottle of suds down to temperatures chilled enough to directly attack the romance sections of the brain, and help you see things in a new, much-more-pleasant light.