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engrish funny swinish influenza

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR YOU
SWINISH INFLUENZA
1. fever
2. dry cough
3. irritacion in the eyes
4. throat pain
5. pain of head
6. pain in the aticulations
8. general uneasiness

SWINISH INFLUENZA
CAUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Move away from people that have symptoms
2. Do not greet anybody with kiss, neither of hand
3. Do not share glasses and cutleries
4. Laundry of hand frequently with water and soap
5. Keep ventilate the house, in closed spaces
6. In case of having symptoms do not got to work, contact your phisician or nearest health center, and keep rest. Self medication is not recomended

I have just the doctor for you.

Submitted by: Laura Luce via Engrish Funny Submissions

This is an official Honduran Ministry of Health flyer that was given out to all incoming passengers at the international airport in May of 2009.

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  1. I suffer from general uneasiness an awful lot of the time!
    This made me laugh; thanks for sharing it.

  2. MWS says:

    I’ve got pain in the aticulations

  3. lawlin' at things noone else ever lawls at like the word moose; also the CEO of trolls on trial, we make you the FIRST one in court says:

    I DONT WANT TO KEEP VENTILATE THE HOUSE! VENTILATE THE HOUSE NEEDS TO BE SET FREE!! FREE WEEERRY!

  4. JohnB says:

    Self-medication is not recommended? Why didn’t they tell me that 40 years ago?!?

    • bluejade says:

      Perhaps you weren’t listening… and it seemed like the thing to do at the time.

      • JohnB says:

        It was definitely a prerequisite for quite a few courses in those days. Besides, you couldn’t go to a concert without an oxygen tank and expect to not get high. But no, when I was young and foolish, I wasn’t teachable anyway. I was invincible and immune. Now, I know how vincible and mune I am…

  5. MeowTseTongue says:

    LOL @ Swinish. It’s as if it’s not full Swine, but Swinish… It must be a grey area.

    Patient: “So doc, do I have the swine flu?”

    ::doc tilts his hand back and forth, to do the classic ’so-so’ hand gesture::

    “Ehh, it’s Swinish.. I’d go put your hands in the laundry for a few days, and check your aticulations”

  6. la conejita says:

    If you wear glasses, please don’t share them with me. You won’t be able to see without them and I can get your swinish infection that has been pouring from your eyes.

  7. Litewinger says:

    “4. Laundry of hand frequently with water and soap”
    Wait, so I can’t use my washing machine anymore? How about dry cleaning? Is that still safe?

    • JohnB says:

      I don’t think dry-cleaning is any more dangerous for your hand than a washing machine, but dropping it off may prove to be difficult.

  8. lexan D says:

    Swinish? Still doesn’t sound like it’s kosher.

  9. paws4thot says:

    Where is this place Swin?

  10. Meowth says:

    Don’t get tachyons in your eyes! Also, if you are hanging out with Gene Simmons, don’t greet people or hands!

  11. SeaBee says:

    It’s all the fault of that girl I met in a bar.
    She called me swinish and gave me a pain in the aticulations because she caught me self medicating.
    I told her that it was just that my laundry of hand was on a spin cycle.
    I heard that General Uneasiness got demoted.

  12. ShadowSplicer says:

    I thought it was ‘F’ for ffort.

  13. delfinlucas says:

    I’ll contact my phisician and get him to make me a bomb atomic to slaughter the virus of the cold of pigs.

    • JohnB says:

      I knew physicians always thought they had god-like powers, but when did they earn the right to prescribe nuclear weapons???

    • dr handle says:

      A Bomb Atomic – is that like a Bombe Alaska, only with a bigger sparkler on top?

      • JohnB says:

        Did someone say Obamatomic?

        • dr handle says:

          Hell’s bells, I just read that last word as “bum-o-matic”. Oh dear. It’s the sudden heat Down Here, it’s playing havoc with what passes for my brain. And the cat kept us up all night because she kept throwing up. Nobody should have to be cleaning up cat puke at 0300…

          • JohnB says:

            Beats the other end. I once had a cat who had gotten a leg broken by a dog, whose leg was set in a long splint by a vet. I was awakened in the middle of the night by a blood-curdling scream, worthy of the best B-horror-movie screamers of all time. I ran into the living room, fully expecting to find a person, but I found nothing but my injured cat and a puddle of diarrhea. Turns out that apparently his tail was badly sprained as well, so whenever he lifted it to poop he screamed. And he had the worst case of animal diarrhea I have ever seen. So I spent the next six hourse cleaning up after a screaming cat spewing diarrhea all over the place. Vomit would have been a picnic by comparison.

            • JohnB says:

              But “bum-o-matic” would be a word we could have fun with, although I am intrigued by the possibilities of the adjective, “Obamatomic.”

            • dr handle says:

              Oh, we’ve done that, too – pussycat gastro at zero-dark-hundred. Two exits, no waiting; we were woken up by the smell… then there was the fun of having to feed electrolyte solution to her with a syringe – we knew she was getting better when she started to fight back.
              She’s just come back from the vet, in fact – the husband reports that the vet sez puss has a bit of a heart murmur (to be expected in a geriatric cat) and has probably eaten something she shouldn’t, but should be right as rain in a couple of days. Yep, it’s more electrolyte solution, and she’ll be trying to shred our arms by the end of the week…

  14. Gavin says:

    NOOOOBODY EXPECTS THE SWINISH INFLUENZA!

    • Stardrake says:

      Our symptom is fever, fever and dry cough, dry cough and fever. Our TWO symptoms are fever, dry cough, and irritacion in the eyes. Our THREE WEAPONS ARE fever, dry cough, irritacion in the eyes and throat pain…ARRRGGH!

      I’ll come in again!

  15. lexan D says:

    I am getting a pain of head.

  16. JohnB says:

    I think this is one of the fastest times to reach 100 comments ever!

    • JohnB says:

      And we did it with the conspicuous absence of Droll not Troll. Wonder what he’s up to…

      • la conejita says:

        Should I find someone to fill in for him?

      • bluejade says:

        Shouldn’t he be asleep at this hour?

        • paws4thot says:

          He would be I think; certainly I was.

          • Droll not Troll says:

            Hey, paws. I live in Australia; don’t you live in Scotland? I think our time zone is about 10 hours ahead of yours

            • paws4thot says:

              Why did I think you were South African, other than that we’re often on here about the same time?

              • JohnB says:

                Why did I think my Aunt Zelda was from Alpha Centauri and had robotic legs?

              • dr handle says:

                It’s the accent – Australians are reasonably frequently mistaken for having Afrikaans accents. Can’t think why, we don’t sound the least bit Soth Efriken to each other.

                • JohnB says:

                  It’s the way of the world. People from Kentucky and West Virginia sound largely alike to me, being from New York, but they can tell the difference. And having lived south of the Mason-Dixon line for 34 years, to a New Yorker I sound like I’m from the South, even though no Kentuckian ever thinks I’m from here.

                  • dr handle says:

                    Much to my eternal embarrassment, I cannot tell a Canadian from a Merkin by accent. I have to ask to avoid giving offence.

                    • bluejade says:

                      If they say “eh?” they are Canadian. If they are Canadian, they will say it a lot.
                      Just asking a Canadian if they are merkin generally offends them. The merkin, on the other hand, will merely think you are one brick sort of a load.

                    • la conejita says:

                      Americans will always assume that Spanish speakers are all from Mexico. There’s quite a few Central and South Americans here. They get offended if they are called Mexicans.
                      I don’t think that it’s because it’s offensive to be called a Mexican, but because in a way, they are loosing their identity by being lumped into a group they don’t belong to.

                      • paws4thot says:

                        Like you’re all welcome to call me British or Scotish, but if you call me English I will reach down my broadband, pull your arms off, and then beat you to death with the wet ends!

                • paws4thot says:

                  I can’t think why; you talk completely differently to Boers.

                  • JohnB says:

                    I really try to avoid talking to bores.

                    • paws4thot says:

                      Boer is of Dutch origin, is pronounced “boor”, and translates into English as “farmer”. Also, if you call a white South African (particularly a male) a boer, they will think it’s a compliment, whether it is or not.

                      • JohnB says:

                        Yes, actually I did know that, although I’d be reluctant to call any English-speaking person a “boor,” at least to their face.

      • Droll not Troll says:

        Aww, you missed me? I’m not getting enough time at the keyboard lately. We’re having a heatwave here this week, which I thought would give me more time on this site, but it’s actually been less.
        Because we’re now on Daylight Saving Time, it’s less likely I’ll be here at the same time as most Americans. I drop by whenever I can, but often someone else has beaten me to the comment.

        • JohnB says:

          Of course, I’m well aware of our time and seasonal disparities (in this area, at least, I am not patently delusional), but usually at some time during the work day here you pop in, so your absence was noted. We’ve got unusually warm weather here too, but in our case it means balmy 70s (F–that’s 22-25 for you Celsians) in mid-autumn, about which I shall never complain. I am a night owl by nature forced into an early morning mode by work (I’m supposed to start at 7AM, although I rarely muddle in until 7:30), so there’s probably not one hour out of the 24 that I haven’t posted sometimes.

        • blueJade says:

          Or course we missed you!
          In September it got so hot in the building I was in I had to turn off the computer, the fan was making a high-pitched whine, the desk surface was unpleasantly hot to touch, as was the phone.
          110 F outside, hotter inside, it’s a steel building.
          The bluejades on the central coast of California, and a lot of things are generally sucking.
          Post anyway!

        • la conejita says:

          We did miss you, next time please let us know ahead of time if you will be absent. We take roll each day, if you don’t let us know that you will not be here, it will look bad on your record.

          • JohnB says:

            Well, gee, they miss you if you’re gone part of a day, but I’m gone three days and they had someone just “fill in.” *sniff* I’m just a cog in a great, big, faceless Engrish machine!!! *bawwww*

          • dr handle says:

            It’s okay, I’ll be he has a note from mum.

            • JohnB says:

              On that note, I’ll be mum.

              • la conejita says:

                I thought you were dud.

                • dr handle says:

                  Now who has the New Zealander accent?

                  • paws4thot says:

                    No idea, but I’ll bet they’re fed up about being called Australian!

                    • Droll not Troll says:

                      You’d be surprised how many of them want to live in Australia.

                      • JohnB says:

                        So what prevents them? Do you guys have some sort of immigration quota or something?

                        • Droll not Troll says:

                          Our immigration policy is far too complex for the average person to understand, but there must be some kind of quota there. The population is less than 22 million, so while it may seem we have lots of room, the infrastructure to provide suitable living standards for a large influx of people isn’t there. Nor is the water, which is why most prospective immigrants wouldn’t be able to live in most of the country.
                          There are people who say that Australia is already overpopulated, and I think they may have a point.

  17. lexan D says:

    I’m not sure who wants to take a nap more, me or my inner 5 year old.

    *getting back to work*

    • Maynard G. Krebs says:

      WORK! WORK!

      • JohnB says:

        *sigh* It’s not easy being a dinosaur. Am I really the only one here who remembers Dobie Gillis and his sidekick?

        • lexan D says:

          oh, sorry. but it was fun to goggle that ref.

          • JohnB says:

            Yeah, that was a TV show that I actually watched when it was broadcast. I could sing the theme song fairly well, actually. I’m not sure of the dates, but I’m guessing ‘61-’63? Dobie, a college student, had a beatnik friend named Maynard G. Krebs who showed a tic in which he would bleat, “Work!” any time someone mentioned the word. The title, I believe, was, “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.” And I swear all this is just from memory and I haven’t googled it, although now I will, just to see how closely I have the dates pegged. TV was certainly a very different medium in those days, for you folks who missed it. Lucy Ball went through an entire pregnancy and gave birth to Ricky Jr. without anyone once mentioning the word, “pregnant.” They never showed two people in the same bed on TV, and never showed a dead body, let alone the grisly forensic stuff they show now that, even though I’m fairly desensitized to the stuff, can still ruin my dinner. Now, my 10-year-old daughter watches, “Law and Order: SVU” with me, in which sex crimes are described in graphic detail, and gets annoyed if I tell her she shouldn’t watch it. She’s a fan of the rock band Hinder, and let me tell you, it’s an odd experience to hear my daughter, just beginning to show signs of puberty, singing along spirtedly in my truck to the CD, “Let’s go home, and get stoned, ’cause the secks is so much better when you’re mad at me.”

            • bluejade says:

              Yikes. You better start talking, like, yesterday. And get her outdoors as much as possible… it is tough to raise kids when the culture is so good at programming.

          • Meowth says:

            Goggle? Did you wear it while swimming?

        • la conejita says:

          Ok John, now that we know you are a dinosaur, I am going to check you off the list of possible fathers for Dr Handle’s baby.

          • JohnB says:

            I have, as I have mentioned many times previously, never cheated on my wife of 23 years, although the first couple of years of our marriage are kind of hazy because I was still an active alcoholic. So I can’t definitively rule out what might have happened in those days, but that does seem rather long as a gestation period.

            • la conejita says:

              If you can’t remember doing it with other women while you were drunk. Chances are that you were so drunk and wouldn’t have met the requirements for having secks.

              • la conejita says:

                Hey in two more years you’ll be celebrating your 25th Anniversary! Don’t forget to send an invitation.

                I will show up with Engrish signs and people will look at me like I am crazy.

                • JohnB says:

                  Yeah, if we make it two more years, and I’m still involved with you all, I will definitely send an open invitation to the party. I would love the Engrish signs, and my wife, who does actually have a good sense of humor (she’s have to, to be married to me!), but is essentially computer illiterate, would probably like them too. But hey, when people look at me like I’m crazy, I write it off as a compliment.

                  • lexan D says:

                    Twenty-three years is very good.
                    Happy Twenty-third Anniversary!

                    • JohnB says:

                      Thanks. Our celebration was rather dampened this year, since my wife’s cousin’s husband passed away two days before, and we were rather close with them.

                  • la conejita says:

                    If you hire me as your wedding planner, I will make sure to have Curry Egg Horse Shoe Crap on the menu along with something else containing Herpes.

                    For your second Honey Moon, I will send you off to Asia where you will be able to experience Engrish in the real world.

              • JohnB says:

                Yes, that very thought had occurred to me years ago, that if I ever did attempt to cheat on my wife during a blackout I probably didn’t get very far anyway.

  18. dr handle says:

    *sniff, sob* And then, he gave me a pain in the aticulations *sob*
    Why, the swinish cad!

  19. Jake says:

    I’m glad that, at least, most of the translation got through. Naff I know.


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