I’ve just surveyed five randomly selected members of the platypus species, and they unanimously say this plural is too easily converted into “platypussies” for taunting purposes. They expressed their desire that the plural of platypus be “dear sirs and/or madams.”
Or you could just swear allegiance to him and accept a lesser rank, such as Lieutenant Obvious. (To know whether you could lay claim to Major Obvious, that would depend on whether Captain Obvious is in the Army or the Navy.)
What seems obvious to most of us isn’t universally so. After all, George W. Bush once commented that people who immigrate illegally are breaking the law.
Actually, my experience has been that these folks do this effortlessly, not even breaking a sweat. They’re just naturals.
I was gonna say something about Yogi Berra. But he definitely was not at all stupid. Might have been guilty of malapropisms, but most of his quotes were just pure unvarnished untainted genius.
And not forgetting the Spoonerisms. Professor Spooner was I believe a Professor of Philosophy (I believe) who got his words ixed mup and in the orange wroder. Take a look at William Spooner in Wikipedia, that’ll tell you more about him, and also The Two Ronnies did a sketch about Spooner with the late great Ronnie Barker appearing as Spooner.
Perhaps you’re right. Let’s see, that’s twelve for Yogi, thirteen if you count his ‘69 Mets… Versus SIX for all the Red Sox in the last 109 seasons? Nope. Nothing wrong here!
I think they can only be as quick as us .. we the have to get through the voting. I must admit I’m not always good about getting my votes in on the voting page though …
If tvtropes.org is to be believed, the character is actually saying something like, “People who are killed are supposed to stay dead!”. And yes, he’s the hero of the Captain Obvious entry.
I do suspect there are people out there who actually do not know this. And it’s not because they have a sophisticated view about reincarnation or eternal life…
Since I do have a few folks around me who are like this, I think y’all understand why I tend to stay in my bedroom, hiding under the bed. And “under the bed” isn’t a similar euphemism to “under the table”. Don’t do that anymore- I got too good.
It’s so obvious, but yet not everyone realizes it. Look at the dubbing company “4kids” for example. Even when characters are clearly killed, they appatantly didn’t die.
Don’t forget about the flinging himself in front of a giant attacking monster thing and the “women shouldn’t fight no matter *how* strong they are” thing and the “how do you have sex again” thing and the…
We love Engrish just as much when it’s produced by English speakers! But if it’s just due to “poor writing skills,” tell me what the person writing it intended to say…
Well, I’ve never seen it, so I don’t know for sure, but it could mean that if “they” die, then more people will die. Of course, poor writing skills are just as funny as anything else on this site, so don’t think I’m a complete party pooper.
No, it’s more like it’s taken out of context. I think this was a time when Shiro was trying to make Sabre understand that if she gets killed during a fight with another Servant she dies for good, though she doesn’t seem to mind because it’s her duty. I haven’t seen Fate/Stay Night in a long time so I don’t remember. You’d have to watch the anime to understand.
In all fairness, that sentence can make sense with the right context. If, say, the “they” being referred to is one group of people, and another group’s survival relies on the first’s survival, then it makes perfect sense; it’s just a poor use of pronouns. Some people die if others are killed.
Almost anything can make sense in the right context! “Their sheik seized weird height weir either neither leisure deity” appears to be nonsense unless you realize it’s a list of exceptions to the “i before e” rule.
Actually, if you are familiar with TYPE-MOON’s stuff (or even anime in general, really) this statement is not always true. Some folks are just temporarily incapacitated when killed, and bounce back up within a few hours. They are often a little pissed about the experience, but not dead.
Nonetheless, Shirou does say a lot of dumb things.
OH EM GEE!!! NO WAI!!!
first
ello’
Your a platypus. And I like platypuses… platypi… platypeople?
I think the correct plural is Platypodes, (means “flat feet”) but IMO it makes more sense to use Platypuses.
I’ve just surveyed five randomly selected members of the platypus species, and they unanimously say this plural is too easily converted into “platypussies” for taunting purposes. They expressed their desire that the plural of platypus be “dear sirs and/or madams.”
well, platypuses is the scientific term, the platypus has history in my family
Merriam-Webster has both platypuses and platypi as accepted plurals. But MAN, you must have an interesting family tree!
A Family Tree!! My Family is so poor we don’t even have a Family Bush!!
So your family is Brazillian?
I have a family cactus; it has lots of pricks.
I have a family christmas tree. I live in Northern Maine, though, so go figure. At least it’s better than a family potato plant.
Platypuses don’t live in trees! You must be thinking of our Drop Bears.
I never carrry bears, so I don’t ever think about dropping them!
I guess you could say I don’t bear bears.
NO I WILL NOT MAKE OUT WITH YOU!
hi
*test*
hooray!!!
The Adventures of Captain Obvious?
Yep! That’s Me!! Pants Get Wet If They Are Peed In!
wen pants get peed in butt gets chapped
You need to back off. Pointing out the obvious is MY territory.
His avatar is more impressive, though. Have you tried gravatar.com to get yourself a better one?
Or you could just swear allegiance to him and accept a lesser rank, such as Lieutenant Obvious. (To know whether you could lay claim to Major Obvious, that would depend on whether Captain Obvious is in the Army or the Navy.)
General Obvious if anything. I OBVIOUSLY outrank him. I kinda like my default avatar, that and I’ve never been sure how to do one on this site.
fine than I am the Arch-Duke of the province of Obvious.
So your avatar is all your default!
Hey!! My Avatar is anything but default. Defeat anyway (Or maybe De Knees, Or maybe De Dogs Bollocks
) but never Default
Oh, de agony of de feet!
I can’t decide if that comment is callous or just corny.
Hell hath no fury like a woman’s corns.
I’ve kind of gotten used to mine.
I bet that’s the thesis of the show.
i would have never guessed
I once saw a compilation of this on youtube, with a LOT of things like that. I should go find it XD
And could you post the lnik here if you find it?
It’s from an anime called Fate/Stay Night.
I havent watched it in a while, can you remember what ep?
What seems obvious to most of us isn’t universally so. After all, George W. Bush once commented that people who immigrate illegally are breaking the law.
Well, Bush is an exception. It takes some real effort to be as stupid as him.
And I’m always surprised at the number of people who DO work hard at it!
Actually, my experience has been that these folks do this effortlessly, not even breaking a sweat. They’re just naturals.
I was gonna say something about Yogi Berra. But he definitely was not at all stupid. Might have been guilty of malapropisms, but most of his quotes were just pure unvarnished untainted genius.
Well, you know he never said a lot of those things he said.
He must be a descendant of Confucius, who said, “Who say I say what they say I say?”- or maybe not.
No, but he was an ancestor of Confuse Us.
Win
And not forgetting the Spoonerisms. Professor Spooner was I believe a Professor of Philosophy (I believe) who got his words ixed mup and in the orange wroder. Take a look at William Spooner in Wikipedia, that’ll tell you more about him, and also The Two Ronnies did a sketch about Spooner with the late great Ronnie Barker appearing as Spooner.
I think most of us can do spoonerisms, but nobody does it very often. Feel stree to fart anytime.
He was an ordained minister and held administrative positions, but did lecture on philosophy.
Was he the academic that founded Confuse U?
That question is academic.
If he said “What’d I Say?” then he’d be a descendant of Ray Charles.
Oh come on. He played for the Yankees. How smart could he BE?
TEN World Series Championships playing for them, TWO managing them. Pretty d@mn smart, if you ask me!
Then you are OBVIOUSLY thinking about it the wrong way.
Perhaps you’re right. Let’s see, that’s twelve for Yogi, thirteen if you count his ‘69 Mets… Versus SIX for all the Red Sox in the last 109 seasons? Nope. Nothing wrong here!
EngrishFunny banner fail… why cover the line that provides the humor?
It only covers one letter .. it’s not that bad
I was wondering the very same thing.
I’ve seen this a good 20 times before I saw it here. You’d think engrishfunny.com would be quicker to catch on to things like this.
I think they can only be as quick as us .. we the have to get through the voting. I must admit I’m not always good about getting my votes in on the voting page though …
If tvtropes.org is to be believed, the character is actually saying something like, “People who are killed are supposed to stay dead!”. And yes, he’s the hero of the Captain Obvious entry.
I do suspect there are people out there who actually do not know this. And it’s not because they have a sophisticated view about reincarnation or eternal life…
Since I do have a few folks around me who are like this, I think y’all understand why I tend to stay in my bedroom, hiding under the bed. And “under the bed” isn’t a similar euphemism to “under the table”. Don’t do that anymore- I got too good.
Do you want a big gun and unlimited ammo? If you’re not going to be a part of the solution, be part of the problem.
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.
Life’s great decisions, Do I want to be a sinker or floater?
Or maybe just a flocculator.
Flocculator, as the shepherd said to the sheep.
*clonkulator*
Enunciate slowly and clearly to avoid sh##p s#x puns.
When it comes to sh##p s#x, I’d say renunciation is more appropriate at any speed!
Wales – Where men are men and sheep are nervous.
What do you call a Sheep in Cardiff – A Good time.
Baaah!!! I’m fed up with these sheep jokes aren’t ewe
It’s time to take it on the lamb.
Prepare to be lambasted by the DPF!
Lamb basted? Mmmmm, with rosemary, lemon and garlic… oh, and *clonk* for you lot. No lamb roast for Dreadful Punners!
Mint Jelly?
Unless, of course, you’re part of an azeotrope.
Time to sublimate.
That would be sublime!
Sublimation will Begin……
Year of the Computer… 2178
Did you find Sanctuary….
Yes, I did, sanctuary much!
Thank you, Captain Obvious!
It’s so obvious, but yet not everyone realizes it. Look at the dubbing company “4kids” for example. Even when characters are clearly killed, they appatantly didn’t die.
Common sense is actually rather uncommon.
… unless they come back all sparkly. In which case we get the fun of killing them all over again, only using more garlic and chainsaws this time.
No. Too old-fashioned. I’ve prepared a SPECIAL piece for this job.
lol. I’ll call this a setup fail as just before that part, it says “Usually…(pause)..”.
stolen from 4chan =/
If it was a /b/tard’s before, it’s not really stealing. Just like Iraq’s government wasn’t a US takeover.
great that the engrish funny thing covers up what is funny.
Good job on the ugly watermark
This one is ooooold. =/
It’s usually followed by the quotes; “Real men don’t die!” and “S/He wouldn’t die even if we killed him/her.”
We should test that theory.
I haz an obvious!
Just go sit in the corner till it goes flaccid.
Using a flacculator.
Not necessarily. If they are killed, they do not die in some people’s views. We can consider reincarnation and such…and afterlives…
Any form of life after death, by definition, requires death. So yes, necessarily!
Ah!! But what came first life or death
If they do it right, they come simultaneously.
If i die imma be a zombie so ill PARTIALLY LIVE!
I know people who are already partially living, but they haven’t died yet!
0_o…. IF you die? U think U haz another option?
It’s always nice when people have a goal in life!
Brilliant deduction Shiro…I always thought he was kind of a dumbass. Now I remember why.
Don’t forget about the flinging himself in front of a giant attacking monster thing and the “women shouldn’t fight no matter *how* strong they are” thing and the “how do you have sex again” thing and the…
I was trying to, thanks for reminding me XP
at least it was a good anime
So obvious lol. Which anime is this from?
Fate/Stay Night
the logi is blocking the subtitles
Yogi is NOT blocking the subtitles! He won’t go there because it’s too crowded.
Or perhaps I should just say, your logic is obviously incomplete.
And besides which there are no Pickernick Baskets there. And he’s got Boo Boo saying that “The Ranger wouldn’t like that Yogi”
i mean logo heh
Hmmm… this should be on fail, because it was subbed by english speakers. I don’t think it was a mistranslation but just poor writing skills.
We love Engrish just as much when it’s produced by English speakers! But if it’s just due to “poor writing skills,” tell me what the person writing it intended to say…
Well, I’ve never seen it, so I don’t know for sure, but it could mean that if “they” die, then more people will die. Of course, poor writing skills are just as funny as anything else on this site, so don’t think I’m a complete party pooper.
No, it’s more like it’s taken out of context. I think this was a time when Shiro was trying to make Sabre understand that if she gets killed during a fight with another Servant she dies for good, though she doesn’t seem to mind because it’s her duty. I haven’t seen Fate/Stay Night in a long time so I don’t remember. You’d have to watch the anime to understand.
I think, this was when he got speared by Lancer and revived by Archer’s mistress.
Killing me softly with Engrish,
Making me laugh to death…
Anime fail.
In all fairness, that sentence can make sense with the right context. If, say, the “they” being referred to is one group of people, and another group’s survival relies on the first’s survival, then it makes perfect sense; it’s just a poor use of pronouns. Some people die if others are killed.
Almost anything can make sense in the right context! “Their sheik seized weird height weir either neither leisure deity” appears to be nonsense unless you realize it’s a list of exceptions to the “i before e” rule.
too
weight
too overweight to receive their clonks.
“…or when sounded as “A” as in “sleigh” or “weigh” is part of the rule.
“neighbor or weigh” in my version of the rhyme.
I use my neighbor as a sleigh, so it’s really the same thing.
I’m sorry, poorly translated anime is to easy, please try again
Approval is very much.
Actually, if you are familiar with TYPE-MOON’s stuff (or even anime in general, really) this statement is not always true. Some folks are just temporarily incapacitated when killed, and bounce back up within a few hours. They are often a little pissed about the experience, but not dead.
Nonetheless, Shirou does say a lot of dumb things.
There is often tentacle involvement, too, whenever I’ve watched anime.
Maybe even a pair of Tentacles
I’ll see your pair of tentacles and raise you ten suckers.
call and raise a set of tent stakes.
I prefer ribeyes, but I’m willing to try tent steaks.
You have to shake the cub scouts out of them before cooking.
Gays like tent steaks, because they’re so camp.
but shaking your meat with cub scouts around is a really bad idea.
Sirou sucks, this proofs it.
it makes sense in context. The servants don’t really “die” so he’s trying to express to Saber that regular people die when they are killed.
I believe it’s episode 20 something or another
This is/was the TV Tropes picture for Captain Obvious. So, I’ve already laughed all I could at this.
i did not know that.
I’ve seen this one a billion times, dunno what it’s from though.
Like I heard in a song, there’s nothing more dangerous than getting killed.
People die when they are murdered!
LOL TITLE WIN
:OO!
I never knew.
Another image ruined by… [dramatic] The Logo! [/dramatic]
Really i didn’t know people die if they’re killed :0
and this is why I don’t watch fansubbed anime.