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 Post subject: Some funny signs, excuses and headlines
PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:51 am 
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The following is (purported to be) a collection of actual excuse
notes from parents, including the spelling, from the Office of
Educational Assessment at the University of Washington.

>Please excuse Mary for being absent yesterday. She was in bed with
>gramps.
>Sally won't be in school a week from Friday. We have to attend her
>funeral
>Please excuse Roland from P.E. for a few days. Yesterday he fell out
>of a tree and misplaced his hip
>Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to
>get the Sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it Monday, we
>thought it was Sunday
>Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father's fault.
>My son is under a doctor's care and should not take P.E. today.
>Please execute him.
>Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was sick and I had her
>shot
>Dear School: Please ekscuse John being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30,
>31, 32, and also 33.

Crazy (But True?) Headlines

Astronaut Takes Blame For Gas In Spacecraft
Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
Hershey Bars Protest
Include Your Children When Baking Cookies
Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
Miners Refuse to Work after Death
>Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
Stolen Painting Found by Tree
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead


FOREIGN SIGNS
THESE ARE ACTUAL SIGNS POSTED IN VARIOUS PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS
AROUND THE WORLD. THESE ARE EXAMPLES OF HOW TRANSLATION BETWEEN
LANGUAGES CAN BE VERY CONFUSING.

>In a Leipzig elevator: Do not enter the lift backwards, and only
>when lit up.
In a hotel: Is forbitten to steal hotel towels please. If you
>are not person to do such thing is please not to read notis.
>In a hotel: Visitors are expected to complain at the
>office between the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily.
>In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox
>monastry: You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian
>and Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except
>Thursday.
>On the menu of a Polish hotel: Salad a firm's own make; limpid red
>beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted
>duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's
>fashion.
>At a Budapest zoo: Please do not feed the animals. If you have any
>suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.
>Detour sign in Kyushi, Japan:
>Stop: Drive Sideways.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:46 am 
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Snort. Oddly enough, the only that got me to actually laugh was the hurricane/cemetary one...despite the fact that ive seen it well over a hundred times. :roflol:

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 4:36 am 
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Astronaut Takes Blame For Gas In Spacecraft
Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
Hershey Bars Protest
Include Your Children When Baking Cookies
Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
Miners Refuse to Work after Death
>Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
Stolen Painting Found by Tree
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead


I love those things :D . My favortie of all of them:

Twin sisters reunited after 9 years in grochery isle. :D


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 5:19 am 
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Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father's fault.

Priceless. :roflol: There were many other funny ones there too. This form of jokes (plays on language) are the ones I appreciate best. :D


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:38 pm 
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These are hilarious, I like this one,

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>At a Budapest zoo: Please do not feed the animals. If you have any
>suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:52 pm 
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Those were....erm......can you find a strong word for funny other than hilarious? :P I especially like this one:
Dear School: Please ekscuse John being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30,
>31, 32, and also 33

Where'd you get them?


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 3:34 pm 
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They were great! I've seen a couple of them before but they still made me giggle! :lol:


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 5:50 pm 
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>Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to
>get the Sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it Monday, we
>thought it was Sunday


That was the best one. ^__^ Sad thing is, I'm sure this has happened to more than one person. Heeeheeheee.


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Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father's fault.


That one was the funniest! :roflol:


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WaterbenderZeen wrote:
Those were....erm......can you find a strong word for funny other than hilarious? :P I especially like this one:
Dear School: Please ekscuse John being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30,
>31, 32, and also 33

Where'd you get them?

A friend send it to me :D


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LOL the One were Lisa was sick and The mom had her shot!! I thought that was HILARIOUS!!!

Good Jokes :D


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Haha! :roflol: I liked them all!

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>Please excuse Mary for being absent yesterday. She was in bed with
>gramps.

:roflol:

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>Sally won't be in school a week from Friday. We have to attend her
>funeral

:roflol: :roflol:

Poor Sally. She's dead and she still needs to attend school.

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>Please excuse Roland from P.E. for a few days. Yesterday he fell out
>of a tree and misplaced his hip


lol Misplaced hip?
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>Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to
>get the Sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it Monday, we
>thought it was Sunday


I wish I could use this excuse!
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>Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father's fault.


I don't get this one...

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>Please execute him.


LOL!

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>Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was sick and I had her
>shot


Heh no comment


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My neighbors note for her daughter:

"Sarah was not at school on Friday because she was watching Oprah with her dad."


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AFI_Sorrow wrote:
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>Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to
>get the Sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it Monday, we
>thought it was Sunday


That was the best one. ^__^ Sad thing is, I'm sure this has happened to more than one person. Heeeheeheee.


Haha, I liked that the best too. I could totally see my sister doing something like that.


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:49 pm 
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These are all so funny I liked the head lines

Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

LOL before or after???


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