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  1. EGG says:

    Isn’t it?

  2. hitomiaizeru says:

    ZOMG. That’s. my. elementary. school.

    Sadness prevails.

  3. Dr Hugh says:

    It does if you read the dictionary from back to front.

  4. Dr Hugh says:

    In their dictionary success would also come before stiffy.

  5. Phaet says:

    There are 3 things which are wrong with this sign. They even read dictionary backwards!! Only Jews do that! (So I’ve heared)

  6. capt. awesome says:

    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.

  7. Skroting says:

    I don’t think “hard work” is found in many dictionaries. So success actually comes between “hard” and “work”…

  8. Lee says:

    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.

    • fpelayo says:

      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.

    • thepowerofblue says:

      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.

  9. Harbor View Porpoises says:

    Fact: For this school district, this school became the site of the Gifted And Talented Education program in 2002.

  10. loufail says:

    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

  11. Marius says:

    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.

  12. Marius says:

    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.

  13. SJ says:

    Fail comes before hard work.

  14. Dr Hugh says:

    At least the whore children come first!

  15. Mitchillio says:

    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.

  16. falconheimer says:

    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?

  17. Jubbly Jargon says:

    Perhaps it’s the [distinguished] school of fail? I’d go there.

  18. Desenfoque says:

    In spanish works…

    Success : Éxito
    Hard Work : Trabajo duro

  19. Seeeks says:

    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.

    • Jubbly Jargon says:

      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.

  20. UberPest says:

    As my father says, “If you’re looking for sympathy, it’s between sh*t and syphilis in the dictionary.”

  21. laranja says:

    Hi, where is the fail? Sorry, english isn’t my native language. Thank you

  22. smacky says:

    You all have the same dad!

  23. A Noun says:

    No Child Left Behind!

  24. Kelly says:

    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.

    • Dr Hugh says:

      So what you are saying is through hard work the business succeeded?

    • fpelayo says:

      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.

    • thepowerofblue says:

      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.”

      • Kelly says:

        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.

        • Chevalis says:

          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.

        • Jenrai says:

          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. ;)

  25. Bob says:

    This post is too smart for me

    • loufail says:

      Did you study in Emory School?

    • hmmm says:

      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.

  26. Brianna says:

    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.

  27. ray says:

    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!!!!

    • Harbor View Porpoises says:

      The word is spelled “endeavors”. Spelling fail.

    • Musicgrrl says:

      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.

  28. AF says:

    Hey…..I went to that elementary school…..weird

  29. OMG says:

    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 )
    |
    Seeing eye to eye fail

  30. Terry says:

    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.

  31. InnocentWolf says:

    Remind me not to use that dictionary.

  32. Scott says:

    They obviously mean “work” – still stupid – someone wasn’t thinking.

  33. Jasper says:

    OMG…that’s my old elementary school. ROFLMFAO

  34. me says:

    I guess that’s the way they do things in California!

  35. Mandi says:

    I use the dictionary to find words so I can use them to sound derogatory!

  36. David Montan says:

    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.

  37. Jen says:

    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.

  38. ProtonsZero says:

    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”

  39. Cameron says:

    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

  40. TurkAlbert says:

    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.

  41. TurkAlbert says:

    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.

  42. Pedro Martins says:

    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

  43. Kierstin says:

    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.”

  44. Thomas says:

    Omg I know exactly where this school is, its right by my house!!!

  45. Joe81 says:

    :O hey that’s my old school lol

  46. Juananz says:

    That’s what happens when you translate literally from Spanish

  47. AJ says:

    Haha woooow… I went to this elementary school. Good thing I didn’t turn out as stupid as whoever put this one up.

  48. Stav says:

    It is in Hebrew LOL

  49. Great post. thanks, this is what I looking for, keeping it coming.

  50. haha1 says:

    hahahahaahha that was taken in sandiego california i know couse that is my school rofl XD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i went to that school rofl!!!!

  51. ROFLCOPTER says:

    holy crap……… EMORY SCHOOL, THE ONLY PLACE WHERE RETARTED COMES BEFORE SUCESS IS HERE

  52. “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

  53. titmonger says:

    wikipedia?

  54. Mitchillio says:

    Damn. Remembering to change my name back fail.


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