Awww, you can’t make fun of someone else’s english and then fail on your own.. When you change lines while still quoting, you leave out the second quote in the first set.
Not only that, you dont have success without hard work. So even if “hard work” were in the dictionary, and it came after “success,” the saying would still be wrong. They should have used the word after, not before… then it would have been atleast somewhat correct…
It works perfectly if you say “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work” see? Someone just got stupid and tried the same thing with *hard* work.
You are confusing the example with the definition. You can achieve something desirede without hard work. You could for example succesfully doing nothing the whole day… indeed that is what I intend to do on Sunday.
It’s not the definition of success that’s the fail. In any dictionary “success”, which starts with an “s”, would NOT come before “hard work”, which starts with an “h”.
It has nothing to do with the first letter and the sign is not intended for it to be taken alphabetically. It comes first becase it preceeds a definition that includes “hard work” therefore hard work does indeed come after success in the dictionary.
Holy frickin Christ! The saying goes “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.” As in, generally, in any dictionary, success is a word that alphabetically comes before the word work.
The picture is a FAIL, and trying to use an example from a specific dictionary is a severe, grasping-at-straws FAIL.
From a pure linguistics stand point, this is technically permissable because the sentance concerns the word “work” which is simutaniously being acted upon by the adjective “hard”. It just looks funny because of the semantics of the phrase “hard work”. It’s not really at the level of a fail. I think there is more fail on the part of those who just don’t get it.
You realise that they are saying that the dictionary is the only place where success comes before hard work. They’re saying that in real life, hard work comes before success. The idea of the saying is correct, it was just the fact that they didn’t realise that success comes after hard work in the dictionary as well as in real life.
There is an expression that the only place “success” comes before “teamwork” is in the dictionary. A lot of idiots have tried substituting another word for “teamwork” without considering that it was no longer true. Another example is a trade school which said “the only place success comes before preparation is in the dictionary” which is pretty bad for an educational institution :}
“Does every school and church in America have one of those boards outside?”
I’d guess about half of them do. They’re used to announce schedules, special events and so on. With nothing in particular is going on they sometimes put up “clever” sayings.
Reminds me of a church here. We don’t have those letter boards, but some churches have a board where they stick up posters with ‘clever’ religious sayings. The funniest was “If God didn’t believe in Atheists, would they still exist?”
Reminds me of a joke, to which the punchline is “Someone who knocks on your door but has nothing to say” – used to be my favorite until I became more PC.
My High School has a nice, flashy, electronic board. It shows dates that are about 2 months in the future. It’s also already showing the midterm dates. Thinking about it, midterms aren’t so far from now, only a couple of months… To think I have been in school that long already.
*puts on TMI hat*
Older languages (Like Hebrew and Arabic) are written right to left, because when people first started writing, they’d carve letters onto big rocks. Most people are right-handed, so they’d naturally start writing on the right side of the rock.
Newer languages came into existence after the paper and ink were invented. If you right from right to left with paper and ink, you smear up everything you wrote. That’s why newer languages are written left to right.
Hehe. Avis, click my name. Oh, and by the way… FailBlog fail. Anyone ever noticed that the label for the URL box where you link your name actually says URI?
I hated the end. Here, I was all ready for my happy ending…
they find Goldstein, Winston marries Julia, they have a wonderful life together, Oceania and Eastasia and Eurasia become pals…
And then Winston wins the battle over himself. He loves Big Brother.
Bummer.
FAIL: Not all Jews speak or read Hebrew, so the correct comment would be ‘Semitic languages are often read from right to left, including Arabic and Hebrew.’ Arguably only a minority of Jewish people read Hebrew, since it is a revived language anyway that was brought back from near extinction to serve as the official language of Israel. Also, traditional (old) Japanese reads from right to left, but modern Japanese reads from left to right.
These failblog puzzles are getting trickier and trickier. Hmmm. What is the answer? Hmmm. Let’s see. Would it be A fox and Anubis reading the dictionary backwards while listening to Led Zeppelin? Final answer.
you’ve got a lot to learn. There are always these three parts in the final answer: Led Zeppelin, which is part of every answer. 1+1=2 Led Zeppelin. Foxes. Or vixens. Always the cute, furry kind. Or anthro. And Anubis. He’s part of the answer too.
You might do that in the bathroom where you work, but I wait until I’m at home. My work environment is just about the furthest thing from an acceptable place to masturbate.
Experience in masturbating at home? Yeah, I have plenty of that, as does just about every non impotent male I’ve ever met. If I need advice on rubbing one out in the bathroom at work I’ll be sure to ask you, since apparently you are knowledgeable about the consequences of doing so.
Antibiotics don’t work on viruses, silly. I sure as hell won’t let her make out with me again though. Pretty rude not to tell somebody you have the flu until 20 minutes into making out with them.
They never said anything about alphabetical order. I just read it as meaning that an answer can sometimes be found quickly in a dictionary without hard work.
From what I Googled, the quote is supposed to be “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.” Someone threw in the “hard” there to emphasize the “work” part without realizing what they were screwing up.
So yes, quoting fail and fail at “getting” the original quote.
Right, because schools are always extolling the virtues of dictionaries. Whole classes are devoted to show kids how versitile and easy to use dictionaries are. Every fall they have a Dictionary Week, where kids are encouraged to write essays about how dictionaries have improved their lives, and the writer of the best essay wins a free dictionary!
These distinguished dudes may have translated their slogan from another language.
In Spanish, for instance, the slogan is true.
I would propose a change in the slogan: In dictionary proofreading comes before success, get the clue for real life
Must be the John Morley School.
Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it: and of these, what he says is the least important.
Must be the John Morley School.
Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it: and of these, what he says is the least important.
My comments don’t seem to work for some reason. Occasionally they do, but a lot of the time I go to add comment and afterwards there’s nothing there. If I try again it says I’m double posting. If I get lucky enough for this comment to show up, does anybody know how I can fix this problem? Please help me.
If there are more than 200 replies click the ‘Show All’ button and then try. When many people are posting yours may get ignored or it will double post.
In order for your comments to appear consistantly you must find a picture of a cat that looks like a celebrity and a dog that looks like a historical figure doing something FAIL near a poorly translated political chart/graph. Once you have done this, submit it as a FAIL to a special account (click on my name for the link)–make sure you DO NOT send it to the regular FAIL submission account or you won’t be awarded the double secret cheezburger points that will allow your comments to appear consistant.
Haha, *hands Avis her ear trumpet*
Death Cab were fantastic, apart from at the end when we hung around for an hour and a half in the rain waiting for Ben to come back out of his tour bus (which he said he would) but to no avail.
But we met Nick and got photos
I feel like a schoolgirl again…
I’m getting closer. Now she’s seeing people from my part of the world. It’s now only a matter of time before she’ll be seeing me.
(Pssst…anybody got a spare thousand bucks lying around?)
I have a cat that looks like that one guy from survivor and a dog that looks like Fidel Castro smoking a cigar but it’s really a turd, sans political chart/graph. can i still get my points?
Maybe they were just saying that success comes before work and not counting the adjective? Because “hard work” is not something that would be found in a dictionary as far as I know, since it’s not a single word.
Most schools would / should teach children that hard work leads to success.
(Success comes after hard work)
Then, there’s the alphabetical order thingy.
Nope, you fail. They’re quoting Mark Twain, but the original quote didn’t have “hard” in it. Adding that screws up the intended meaning. Google “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work” for yourself.
You fail on two fronts:
1. The assumption that the phrase “hard work” does not appear anywhere in the dictionary before the entry for the word “success.”
2. The assumption that every dictionary uses the phrase “hard work” in its entry for the word “success.”
Actually both your points are irrelevant
1. It could appear 1,000 times before, and it wouldn’t make the sign incorrect. It no one has made the claim that “hard work” does nto appear anywhere in the dictionary before the entry for “Success.”
2. It only takes 1 dictionary for the statement to be true, as the sign reads “the dictionary.” Also, it is in every dictionary I’ve looked at. Also, it doesn’t have to be in the entry for “Success” to make the sign stand… it just has to come after that word… somewhere in the dictionary.
3. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll conceed to the fact that it was poorly worded, but I’ts not *fail*. It doesn’t belong here.
If you want to get into semantics… by use of the term ONLY, the sign is an inherent Fail… “success” I am sure proceeds the phrase “hard work” in any number of media, (literature, posters etc). The fact that success precedes hard work on the sign itself, (which is a place), makes the statement fallacious. Hyperbole by definition is a lie / exaggeration of a perceived truth.
I think its;
“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work” works because: abc…S…Wxyz, whereas “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before hard work” doesn’t because: abc..H…S…Wxyz.
Hmmm…. We used to live 5 houses from this school. My daughter went there for 4 years…..I think we have finally found the root to her problems in school. Figures.
I think they’re referring to comparison between the amount of work it takes to successfully find a word in the dictionary, which we all should know is next to nothing, and the amount of work it takes to be successful in life endevours such as finishing college or getting your dream job. This one should be a FAIL Blog FAIL!!!!
Thank you! I’ve been waiting for someone to realize that. It’s easy to look up a word without any sort of hard work, therefore, the dictionary IS the only place you can have success without hard work. It has nothing to do with the alphabet. This sign is not a fail.
i read it as The dictionary. The only place where success ( the object, not the alphabetical word ) comes before hard work ( again, the object of doing hard work )
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Seeing eye to eye fail
This is a saying an english teacher of mine used, mostly about writing papers or something, it’s not a mistake. It means you succeed in finding the word you’re looking for, then you put in the hard with using it. It’s not a very good saying, as it almost always has to be explained.
Nice blog. Education is important and has become even more important in this recession. People need college now more than ever … not to get a new job but to keep the job they currently have. Competition for the few open jobs that are available is fierce and people that are undereducated are finding it impossible to get a decent job. Go into your local fast food joint and see how many middle aged people are moonlighting to make ends meet.
My friend was showing me web sites with funny pictures, then he gave me the link to this site. I then stumble upon this picture only to see my former elementary school. HAH! Hilarious.
Actually, in my language, portuguese, it would make sense… Since Sucess = Sucesso and Hard Work = Trabalho Duro… but anyway, hard work wouldn’t be in any dictionary XD”
Wow. Just reading the comments makes me suprised how many people dont understand this. It says the dictionary is the only place where success comes before hard work. Yet hard work (if it were a word in the dictionary) would in fact come before success
This isn’t one of the better ones, being as they obviously meant success comes before work. I laughed at all of the other ones, but this is no failure, and should be removed, though putting the ADJECTIVE “hard” in there throws up some questions.
Oh, and just so people know, it DOES refer to the alphabet.
In order to be successful, you must put in the work. YOu’ll never be successful without putting forth some effort, so the only place possible you’ll find success before work IS the dictionary, because you’ll never get success without it otherwise.
well..i know what happened in this Fail.
Here in Brazil, we have the thing…but here Hard Work is “Trabalho Duro”…so it comes after the Succes (sucesso)…what makes the phrase correct
Lol, fail on fail?
This is a Vince Lombardi quote.
“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.”
“No nos vengan a calentar la plaza”. Cada vez en más regiones de México es imposible hacer periodismo. El periodismo está muerto en Reynosa y un largo etcétera. No tengo nada más que decir
Isn’t it?
Stupid, tbh. There’s no “Hard Work” in the dictionary, so it’s obvious they mean “Work.”
That’s what I was thinking.. “Work, hard. (n, v)”
Hard is a verb? Really? Then please use hard as a verb in a sentence.
I harded the bird!
I accidentally the verb hard.
This is such a bad sentence, it doesn’t even need a burn.
Don’t be silly; everything is flammable if you try hard enough!
I accidentally hard the whole urinal cake.
I hard it through the grapevine
I harded my head so I’s would be tougher.
Hard ee har har
I hard a noise. Was it the sound of fail?
Is that what she said? well thats what I hard.
She thought she hard a putty cat.
thats what she said
mermaid and blah – I applaud you! I haven’t laughed that hard in ages!
I’m still crying!
I lol’d so hard at that!
I still think you’re a genius
noob, he said
“work, hard”
” V , N “
Awww, you can’t make fun of someone else’s english and then fail on your own.. When you change lines while still quoting, you leave out the second quote in the first set.
If you translate it to e.g. German (as they say dictionary), it would also work.
Regardless of what they meant, that’s not what they put on the sign.
Not only that, you dont have success without hard work. So even if “hard work” were in the dictionary, and it came after “success,” the saying would still be wrong. They should have used the word after, not before… then it would have been atleast somewhat correct…
It works perfectly if you say “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work” see? Someone just got stupid and tried the same thing with *hard* work.
Comments here are full of fail! I swear LOOK UP THE DEFINITION OF SUCCESS!!!!
You will find that sign is indeed 100% correct.
Success: (suc·cess)
1. The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted: attributed their success in business to hard work.
Notice that “HARD WORK” comes after success! Though this picture doesn’t belong on this website, most of the comments here do.
No offense, but have you ever considered a career as a political spin master?
I 2nd this, but offense intended.
I 2th this too
omg…you “2th”?! FAIL!
comment WIN!
How would that be offensive? I would love for someone to tell me I’m good at bullshitting.
Professional spinmaster? More like professional moron.
You are confusing the example with the definition. You can achieve something desirede without hard work. You could for example succesfully doing nothing the whole day… indeed that is what I intend to do on Sunday.
And I, on Friday.
Agreed. FAIL.
It’s not the definition of success that’s the fail. In any dictionary “success”, which starts with an “s”, would NOT come before “hard work”, which starts with an “h”.
It has nothing to do with the first letter and the sign is not intended for it to be taken alphabetically. It comes first becase it preceeds a definition that includes “hard work” therefore hard work does indeed come after success in the dictionary.
Holy frickin Christ! The saying goes “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.” As in, generally, in any dictionary, success is a word that alphabetically comes before the word work.
The picture is a FAIL, and trying to use an example from a specific dictionary is a severe, grasping-at-straws FAIL.
uhm the point is just that ‘hard work’ isnt an actual work to be found in t he dictionary, if they only used the word work it would not be a fail
Uhm… H comes before S in my alphabet…
From a pure linguistics stand point, this is technically permissable because the sentance concerns the word “work” which is simutaniously being acted upon by the adjective “hard”. It just looks funny because of the semantics of the phrase “hard work”. It’s not really at the level of a fail. I think there is more fail on the part of those who just don’t get it.
Your post makes no sense at all.
You realise that they are saying that the dictionary is the only place where success comes before hard work. They’re saying that in real life, hard work comes before success. The idea of the saying is correct, it was just the fact that they didn’t realise that success comes after hard work in the dictionary as well as in real life.
you fail. they’re saying that success doesn’t come without hard work. you don’t understand.
It’s also on THIS SIGN (the one in the fail) – so the ictionary is not the only place.
True. You can find it in an ncyclopedia too.
Tell that to the children of the rich.
its supposed to say just WORK
because S comes before W.
but S doesnt come before H and hard work isnt even in the dictionary so failfail.
It means alphabetically. (S isn’t before H)…
There is an expression that the only place “success” comes before “teamwork” is in the dictionary. A lot of idiots have tried substituting another word for “teamwork” without considering that it was no longer true. Another example is a trade school which said “the only place success comes before preparation is in the dictionary” which is pretty bad for an educational institution :}
ZOMG. That’s. my. elementary. school.
Sadness prevails.
I feel for you. Does every school and church in America have one of those boards outside? They’re so peculiar.
Just the good ones….
Only if the whore children come first.
The question is: are the whore children before or after success?
After. They are a sign of success as a whore. The more whore children, the busier and more successful the whore mother…
Apparently only the distinguished ones.
“Does every school and church in America have one of those boards outside?”
I’d guess about half of them do. They’re used to announce schedules, special events and so on. With nothing in particular is going on they sometimes put up “clever” sayings.
Reminds me of a church here. We don’t have those letter boards, but some churches have a board where they stick up posters with ‘clever’ religious sayings. The funniest was “If God didn’t believe in Atheists, would they still exist?”
Reminds me of a joke, to which the punchline is “Someone who knocks on your door but has nothing to say” – used to be my favorite until I became more PC.
So you are a computer now?
onlee teh distinguished ones.
My High School has a nice, flashy, electronic board. It shows dates that are about 2 months in the future. It’s also already showing the midterm dates. Thinking about it, midterms aren’t so far from now, only a couple of months… To think I have been in school that long already.
Look at the picture again. Even the grass is receding to the background in shame.
Me too! I feel weird now….
It’s near IB isn’t it? I live about 30 seconds away from this school.
the school is in Imperial Beach, CA right?
It does if you read the dictionary from back to front.
lame, its not like hard work is 1 word. they’re just referring to work
Thats how I judge my books.
I take the covers off mine.
Thank goodness the admiral had a jacket!
There you go, Marius, sexing it up again!
But. . .I. . .er. . .um. . .did I just get the book thrown at me?
I would never presume to read your chapter and verso!
That’s a binding statement, Mookie!
I must be hearing things, I could have sworn somebody just paged me.
Leaf it alone, PoB…
Didn’t we cover this already?
Oooh. Your jacket has a lovely text-ure.
It is quite nice, but I think you should give his jacket and paperback.
*listens to a barbershop quartot*
We’re really pushing the binderies here. How did we a quire so many book puns?
You don’t know…? Dentelle me how you know so many yourself!
Scott good taste, is all.
Well…I DO have my eye on this bonded leather number…
*winks at the Admiral*
Makes more sense if you take out the word hard…
In their dictionary success would also come before stiffy.
Success comes before superconductivity. And Yemen.
And after Semen!
…actually, S-U… S-E… it’d come after. But that’s the actual way. There is.. obvious method to make it… before… you know, piss.
There are 3 things which are wrong with this sign. They even read dictionary backwards!! Only Jews do that! (So I’ve heared)
There are 3 ninjas on this sign. By the time you find one, you will already be dead.
I strangled them all… daaamn
They were not the ninjas, they were squirrels you insensitive clod
I much prefer squirrel stew to ninja stew. Ninjas take too long to cook and they are still stringy.
For cooking ninjas, the best option is to make doucheburgers. Not bad with boiled nonsense and some Windex on the top.
Don’t cook them with their graple hooks then. Naked ninja stew does all kinds of good for your dexterity/flexibility.
Loaded with Vitamin N, ninja stew can be a part of any balanced breakfast.
actually, the Japanese also read their books the opposite way we do.
Yes, I understand all Asians are hanging upside down from their feet.
Yeah, like bats. Or as the asians say it “stab”.
Shhh, BFF will be here any moment now to inform you that he is Asian and offended!
*grin*
How can he post with all the blood rushing to his head???? Oh, that’s right, he’s left the mother ship.
I must follow up for when BFF reads the foregoing: you know we all love you!!!! XOXOXOXO
Arabic is also written right to left.
*gives fluffy a gold star*
Hebrew too, no?
Yes, as well as current political doctrine.
But not for much longer.
*puts on TMI hat*
Older languages (Like Hebrew and Arabic) are written right to left, because when people first started writing, they’d carve letters onto big rocks. Most people are right-handed, so they’d naturally start writing on the right side of the rock.
Newer languages came into existence after the paper and ink were invented. If you right from right to left with paper and ink, you smear up everything you wrote. That’s why newer languages are written left to right.
This makes sense. And therefore has no place on failblog. Logic is just, just… . too logical.
Hehe. Avis, click my name. Oh, and by the way… FailBlog fail. Anyone ever noticed that the label for the URL box where you link your name actually says URI?
Thanks, now my brain hurts. Or doesn’t.
2+2=5.
Orwell really had a twisted mind. I love that book.
I hated the end. Here, I was all ready for my happy ending…
they find Goldstein, Winston marries Julia, they have a wonderful life together, Oceania and Eastasia and Eurasia become pals…
And then Winston wins the battle over himself. He loves Big Brother.
Bummer.
That’s what made the book so scary. I LIKE scary books. But it has to the a creepy sinister kind of scary.
URI stands for Uniform Resource Identifier. Why is this a fail?
Because I, being a young teenager of 16 to 17 years, fail at computer knowledge, thinking it was a typo of URL.
Bah, you’re clever. I thought perhaps you had some empirical knowledge of that particular URI input field. I’ve never used it.
fail.. should be “if you WRITE from right to left with paper and ink”.
FAIL: Not all Jews speak or read Hebrew, so the correct comment would be ‘Semitic languages are often read from right to left, including Arabic and Hebrew.’ Arguably only a minority of Jewish people read Hebrew, since it is a revived language anyway that was brought back from near extinction to serve as the official language of Israel. Also, traditional (old) Japanese reads from right to left, but modern Japanese reads from left to right.
I didn’t know that
Well don’t just leave us in suspense after such a concise explanation. What do the majority of Jews speak and read?
Probably the language of the country they are living in.
Klingon, actually.
Canada?
Florida?
Africa?
I don’t speak Floridian.
I DO!!! XD
These failblog puzzles are getting trickier and trickier. Hmmm. What is the answer? Hmmm. Let’s see. Would it be A fox and Anubis reading the dictionary backwards while listening to Led Zeppelin? Final answer.
I thought that the Elephant is bigger that the Moon was the Final Answer?
Led Zeppelin is always the answer!
I thought beer was always the answer.
you’ve got a lot to learn. There are always these three parts in the final answer: Led Zeppelin, which is part of every answer. 1+1=2 Led Zeppelin. Foxes. Or vixens. Always the cute, furry kind. Or anthro. And Anubis. He’s part of the answer too.
You have much to teach me, oh Master of Answers.
So.. if a guy asks me out, the answer would be “Beer Led Zeppelin Foxes over my dead body”?
Final answer is always 42.
Except now we need to figure out what the question was!
“I’m having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle!”
I don’t think “hard work” is found in many dictionaries. So success actually comes between “hard” and “work”…
good point
So,
Hard
Success
then Work?
Hrm…
…You’re doin’ it wrong.
Should be:
Work
Hard
Success
Cuddle
For me it usually goes,
Hard?
Success!
Roll over and fall asleep.
You must get a lot of action.
It depends on what you compare it to, and what counts as “action.”
By my reckoning, that’s a “no.”
I didn’t know you could catch the flu from one’s own hand.
Does the CDC know about that?
I caught the Avian Bird Flu from fapping…
That’s what happens when you spend too much time in the bathroom.
You might do that in the bathroom where you work, but I wait until I’m at home. My work environment is just about the furthest thing from an acceptable place to masturbate.
The voice of experience.
Experience in masturbating at home? Yeah, I have plenty of that, as does just about every non impotent male I’ve ever met. If I need advice on rubbing one out in the bathroom at work I’ll be sure to ask you, since apparently you are knowledgeable about the consequences of doing so.
I guess everybody has something they’re good at. As for the workplace, I wasn’t the one who brought it up. Does somebody have a guilty conscience?
Did you need penicillin for that “flu?”
Antibiotics don’t work on viruses, silly. I sure as hell won’t let her make out with me again though. Pretty rude not to tell somebody you have the flu until 20 minutes into making out with them.
You heartbreaker. Please tell us more.
Wasn’t her projectile vomiting a tip off?
For izzyboy it was a turn on.
Oh, wait, that’s a BAD thing?
Not every flu makes you vomit. Relatively few make you vomit actually.
LOL
Hard
Success
??????
Profit
They never said anything about alphabetical order. I just read it as meaning that an answer can sometimes be found quickly in a dictionary without hard work.
From what I Googled, the quote is supposed to be “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.” Someone threw in the “hard” there to emphasize the “work” part without realizing what they were screwing up.
So yes, quoting fail and fail at “getting” the original quote.
Right, because schools are always extolling the virtues of dictionaries. Whole classes are devoted to show kids how versitile and easy to use dictionaries are. Every fall they have a Dictionary Week, where kids are encouraged to write essays about how dictionaries have improved their lives, and the writer of the best essay wins a free dictionary!
Or it could be that you’re an idiot.
Fact: For this school district, this school became the site of the Gifted And Talented Education program in 2002.
100 years ago?
Looks like they went downhill from then.
Silly Dr Hugh, California doesn’t have hills.
Geography fail?
Compared to where I live it doesn’t
Well tell that to San Francisco!
That city killed my poor legs.
Lol! Loz, you need to try Oregon, ‘specially around the Pete’s Mountain area.
Yes, work your way up the coast.
Lol. It seems like everyone in Oregon is “just passing through”. Oregon is a beautiful state, how come nobody ever stays?
I’d love to visit Oregon. Because I really like Oregano and that’s where it comes from, right?
That sign is located at an extremely busy intersection and has been like that for a long time.
I’m disappointed that someone has only sent this in now, and that I wasn’t the person to do it.
Correction: year 2000.
Memory fail: It was actually the year 2000
These distinguished dudes may have translated their slogan from another language.
In Spanish, for instance, the slogan is true.
I would propose a change in the slogan: In dictionary proofreading comes before success, get the clue for real life
You accidenty your slogan!
Must be the John Morley School.
Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it: and of these, what he says is the least important.
You can say that again!
Say what?
what
What again?
that
Huh?
Me.
Hee!
Ho?
HA!
Bah.
Sheep wont bah below this level
Humbug?
Baa Baa Walters might.
Nah!
Must be the John Morley School.
Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it: and of these, what he says is the least important.
Must be the John Morley School.
Success depends on three things: who says it, how many times he says it, and if anyone cares or not.
How many times did he say it?
Damn repeats, they get everywhere.
Son of a sea cook. I waited for 2 minutes hitting refresh before I reposted.
Dear Failblog, Screw you. you bunch of frog licking, monkey suckers!
Frog licking, monkey sucker??? Son of a sea cook?????? Marius!!!!!!!
*is shocked*
Now look what you did, Marius. You shocked Blue2th’s delicate sensibilities.
And if he doesn’t sign the confession I’ll do it again.
*we know who you’re working for B2th*
*RUNS*
*NABS*
*BORKS*
Seems like it’s been happening to me, too. Only I’m not known around here, so I don’t try again.
Don’t be afraid little moth!
Said the spider. . .
*eyes both moth AND spider*
You know, I think, if you combined the moth in the spider, you could for the first time ever truly get your mother.
*is now thoroughly disturbed*
Aww, thanks. Prepare for double posts! ……
Aww, thanks. Prepare to see plenty more double posts, then.
You did that on PURPOSE!
Fail comes before hard work.
Can I get high too before fail?
At least the whore children come first!
My comments don’t seem to work for some reason. Occasionally they do, but a lot of the time I go to add comment and afterwards there’s nothing there. If I try again it says I’m double posting. If I get lucky enough for this comment to show up, does anybody know how I can fix this problem? Please help me.
Hooray, it worked!
But this one time was only to get your hopes up. Now it’s back to months of failing. The Lords of failblog.org have decided thus.
You could try working hard before success
nah, that’s too difficult.
Yeah, mine does that a lot too. In some ways, we all fail.
In fail, we are all equal, but some are more equal than others.
Four fails good, two fails bahahahader!!!!!!
Two is company, three is a crowd.
I was not attacking you, just running with George Orwell (Animal Farm).
If there are more than 200 replies click the ‘Show All’ button and then try. When many people are posting yours may get ignored or it will double post.
Never trust advice on failblog.org.
Think this over…
…
*chuckles*
*ponders*…
*brain begins to hurt*
You should probably get that looked at.
In order for your comments to appear consistantly you must find a picture of a cat that looks like a celebrity and a dog that looks like a historical figure doing something FAIL near a poorly translated political chart/graph. Once you have done this, submit it as a FAIL to a special account (click on my name for the link)–make sure you DO NOT send it to the regular FAIL submission account or you won’t be awarded the double secret cheezburger points that will allow your comments to appear consistant.
Good luck, and godspeed.
I clicked your name ! I now have more cheezburger points than I can handle !
Hey pob, guess who I’m seeing tonight?
I’ll give you a clue, they’re from your part of the world…
Bill Gates?
Haha! I wish! A dinner date with Mr Gates, seduce him, get him drunk on champagne, persuade him to get out his chequebook…
I’m guessing he’s difficult to seduce. Maybe replace those pasties with CD-roms?
Psh, that’s so 1995! Flash drives get a man’s pulse racing in 2008.
*pictures Loz flashing her drives*
*checks pulse*
If my pulse were a car I could win the Indianapolis 500.
I don’t want to hear any inappropriate comments about “floppy disks” or “hard drives” now.
Please. My disks are round and firm.
Just make sure you don’t scratch ‘em.
*polishes dragon’s discs*
C’mon! Don’t make us wait for pob…. Tell! Tell!
All you old folks probably don’t know them
Death Cab for Cutie?
*Throws up in mouth a little*
You, sir, have poor taste.
I’m sorry, I am not a fan.
*grabs walker, staggers away*
*grabs walker, clobbers Loz over the head with it*
Yes, sweets, I know who they are. :p
Hey, I know them. My kids listen to th…*Shakes cane at Loz*
Eh? What’s she on about now? I need my ear trumpet, I can’t hear her.
Speak up now dearie!
Haha, *hands Avis her ear trumpet*

Death Cab were fantastic, apart from at the end when we hung around for an hour and a half in the rain waiting for Ben to come back out of his tour bus (which he said he would) but to no avail.
But we met Nick and got photos
I feel like a schoolgirl again…
Hehe, so you’re not spiraling into a deep, dark depression anymore? Loz doesn’t need any more hugs from her shadow?
Oh no, I always need hugs from my shadow!
*extra big hugs*
*hugs*
I’m getting closer. Now she’s seeing people from my part of the world. It’s now only a matter of time before she’ll be seeing me.
(Pssst…anybody got a spare thousand bucks lying around?)
They told me you said hi, pob. Thanks for that

(But tell Ben he’s a wanker!)
I’ll be sure to tell him the next time I see him.
If there are many postings, check the second page, yours will perhaps be there, making no sense in the context of other postings.
I have a cat that looks like that one guy from survivor and a dog that looks like Fidel Castro smoking a cigar but it’s really a turd, sans political chart/graph. can i still get my points?
Sell them on ebay. Remember the potato chip that looked like Mother Teresa?
Perhaps it’s the [distinguished] school of fail? I’d go there.
In spanish works…
Success : Éxito
Hard Work : Trabajo duro
In Dutch too
Success: succes
Hard Work: hard werk
Er.. no.. wait…
Maybe they were just saying that success comes before work and not counting the adjective? Because “hard work” is not something that would be found in a dictionary as far as I know, since it’s not a single word.
Maybe they just meant hard fail comes after success? I.e they successfully put up the message, but it failed because work was a typo.
As my father says, “If you’re looking for sympathy, it’s between sh*t and syphilis in the dictionary.”
My dad says the same thing!
So does mine!
My father just shits syphilis.
*reaches over* Moist towelette?
I bought a moist towlette from a novelty store the other day that aparently will wash away my sins.
apparently*
Nesting
Hi, where is the fail? Sorry, english isn’t my native language. Thank you
I’m surprised you can talk at all with such a bad case of laranjaitis!
I think I just heard a crowd groan somewhere…
Most schools would / should teach children that hard work leads to success.
(Success comes after hard work)
Then, there’s the alphabetical order thingy.
*speaks slowly so as to be understood*
That is why it is a fail.
Tell that ti laranja !
You all have the same dad!
Reply to comment fail.
I now go look for syphilitic sympathy.
No Child Left Behind!
You guys are all full of fail! I swear LOOK UP THE DEFINITION OF SUCCESS!!!!
You will find that sign is indeed 100% correct.
Success: (suc·cess)
1. The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted: attributed their success in business to hard work.
Notice that “HARD WORK” comes after success! Though this picture doesn’t belong on this website, most of the comments do.
So what you are saying is through hard work the business succeeded?
Nope, you fail. They’re quoting Mark Twain, but the original quote didn’t have “hard” in it. Adding that screws up the intended meaning. Google “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work” for yourself.
You fail on two fronts:
1. The assumption that the phrase “hard work” does not appear anywhere in the dictionary before the entry for the word “success.”
2. The assumption that every dictionary uses the phrase “hard work” in its entry for the word “success.”
Actually both your points are irrelevant
1. It could appear 1,000 times before, and it wouldn’t make the sign incorrect. It no one has made the claim that “hard work” does nto appear anywhere in the dictionary before the entry for “Success.”
2. It only takes 1 dictionary for the statement to be true, as the sign reads “the dictionary.” Also, it is in every dictionary I’ve looked at. Also, it doesn’t have to be in the entry for “Success” to make the sign stand… it just has to come after that word… somewhere in the dictionary.
3. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll conceed to the fact that it was poorly worded, but I’ts not *fail*. It doesn’t belong here.
If you want to get into semantics… by use of the term ONLY, the sign is an inherent Fail… “success” I am sure proceeds the phrase “hard work” in any number of media, (literature, posters etc). The fact that success precedes hard work on the sign itself, (which is a place), makes the statement fallacious. Hyperbole by definition is a lie / exaggeration of a perceived truth.
It is a fail because they misquoted Mark Twain. End of argument.
PS = Stop double posting just because you think everyone hasn’t already seen your argument. We did. We just figured you didn’t know the quote.
This post is too smart for me
Did you study in Emory School?
I think its;
“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work” works because: abc…S…Wxyz, whereas “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before hard work” doesn’t because: abc..H…S…Wxyz.
Hmmm…. We used to live 5 houses from this school. My daughter went there for 4 years…..I think we have finally found the root to her problems in school. Figures.
I think they’re referring to comparison between the amount of work it takes to successfully find a word in the dictionary, which we all should know is next to nothing, and the amount of work it takes to be successful in life endevours such as finishing college or getting your dream job. This one should be a FAIL Blog FAIL!!!!
The word is spelled “endeavors”. Spelling fail.
the dictionary is a certain place, where the past hard work I comes
- babelfish
Thank you! I’ve been waiting for someone to realize that. It’s easy to look up a word without any sort of hard work, therefore, the dictionary IS the only place you can have success without hard work. It has nothing to do with the alphabet. This sign is not a fail.
Hey…..I went to that elementary school…..weird
as did I…marzec…shciltz…mccay…and hernandez ><
i read it as The dictionary. The only place where success ( the object, not the alphabetical word ) comes before hard work ( again, the object of doing hard work )
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Seeing eye to eye fail
This is a saying an english teacher of mine used, mostly about writing papers or something, it’s not a mistake. It means you succeed in finding the word you’re looking for, then you put in the hard with using it. It’s not a very good saying, as it almost always has to be explained.
I meant, then you put in the hard work using it… Fail on my part.
Remind me not to use that dictionary.
They obviously mean “work” – still stupid – someone wasn’t thinking.
OMG…that’s my old elementary school. ROFLMFAO
I guess that’s the way they do things in California!
I use the dictionary to find words so I can use them to sound derogatory!
Nice blog. Education is important and has become even more important in this recession. People need college now more than ever … not to get a new job but to keep the job they currently have. Competition for the few open jobs that are available is fierce and people that are undereducated are finding it impossible to get a decent job. Go into your local fast food joint and see how many middle aged people are moonlighting to make ends meet.
My friend was showing me web sites with funny pictures, then he gave me the link to this site. I then stumble upon this picture only to see my former elementary school. HAH! Hilarious.
Actually, in my language, portuguese, it would make sense… Since Sucess = Sucesso and Hard Work = Trabalho Duro… but anyway, hard work wouldn’t be in any dictionary XD”
Wow. Just reading the comments makes me suprised how many people dont understand this. It says the dictionary is the only place where success comes before hard work. Yet hard work (if it were a word in the dictionary) would in fact come before success
This isn’t one of the better ones, being as they obviously meant success comes before work. I laughed at all of the other ones, but this is no failure, and should be removed, though putting the ADJECTIVE “hard” in there throws up some questions.
Oh, and just so people know, it DOES refer to the alphabet.
In order to be successful, you must put in the work. YOu’ll never be successful without putting forth some effort, so the only place possible you’ll find success before work IS the dictionary, because you’ll never get success without it otherwise.
well..i know what happened in this Fail.
Here in Brazil, we have the thing…but here Hard Work is “Trabalho Duro”…so it comes after the Succes (sucesso)…what makes the phrase correct
Lol, fail on fail?
This is a Vince Lombardi quote.
“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.”
Omg I know exactly where this school is, its right by my house!!!
:O hey that’s my old school lol
That’s what happens when you translate literally from Spanish
Haha woooow… I went to this elementary school. Good thing I didn’t turn out as stupid as whoever put this one up.
It is in Hebrew LOL
Great post. thanks, this is what I looking for, keeping it coming.
hahahahaahha that was taken in sandiego california i know couse that is my school rofl XD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i went to that school rofl!!!!
holy crap……… EMORY SCHOOL, THE ONLY PLACE WHERE RETARTED COMES BEFORE SUCESS IS HERE
“No nos vengan a calentar la plaza”. Cada vez en más regiones de México es imposible hacer periodismo. El periodismo está muerto en Reynosa y un largo etcétera. No tengo nada más que decir
wikipedia?
Damn. Remembering to change my name back fail.