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  1. Peodfil says:

    Wtf is it want to be?

  2. DrB says:

    It’s related to the Hanukkah fail, apparently.

  3. fpage77 says:

    Penis goes where?

  4. berg says:

    hahaha
    it looks like a penis
    that’s funny
    penis
    haha
    funny

  5. Aja says:

    Where’s the door handle?

  6. DrB says:

    Oh, I get it. You can tell it’s a chef because of that mushroom he’s using.

  7. Stef says:

    A Chef?!
    Looks nothing like a chef, apart from he really long hat.

  8. asd says:

    *masturbates*

  9. DrB says:

    Space shuttle.

  10. its me says:

    thought it was a bomb dropping onto something…

  11. Gelederic says:

    Entrez ( in french) = Come in

  12. empath says:

    Ohhhhhhhh! I see it now! From the top the hat, then his face, with a narrow neck and a scarf tied around it just below, and finally the chef’s double-breasted smock with really hunched-up shoulders.

    Man, that’s an unfortunate bit of artwork; might be less easily mis-interpreted if the context of the building was visible (restaurant? cooking supply store? school of cuisine?) but yeah, major phail on the designer’s part!

  13. Martin says:

    It took me about ten seconds to see it as anything other than just a chef. If it hadn’t been posted here, I wouldn’t have noticed anything.

  14. Mookie says:

    it appears the chef is circumcised.

  15. not_giving_name says:

    aparently due to the strange looking chef picture, many people missed the real fail.

    it says entrez (come in), but in the background you see the street.
    So it should’ve said sortie (exit)

  16. dadada says:

    reflection in the window
    the fail keeps on propagating…

  17. Phaet says:

    Is that a penis hitting a spike??

  18. fluffy the fish says:

    Mookie is the person who makes me laugh more than anyone else on failblog.

  19. Matthew says:

    whoever figured out that was a chef… what a ledgend

  20. Shortee says:

    Yeah it’s the entrance for the cook. Restaurant employees and owners do not come through the same door as patrons.

  21. DreadPirateWesley says:

    It looks like an exit only, to me. 0=)
    .
    Thanks a ton to the person that pointed out the chef. I was having a WTF until that point.

  22. Shortee says:

    I guarantee you if you walk through there one of two things is going to happen, you are either going to see something you did not want to see at a place you may have eaten or somebody is going to start yelling at you because they do not want you to see what they do to you or they are anally sterile. That’s why you should cook your own food and say F that.

  23. RS says:

    And this isn’t the Engrish site. Did you think the supposed fail was the spelling?

  24. Skwerlly Bob says:

    Engrish site next door >>>>

  25. Ashley says:

    Maybe they thought this one was supposed to be Entre (ohn-tray)? O.o Because Im not seeing the fail here… except the fail of the person who thought it was fail.

  26. DrB says:

    Actually, now *headtilt* it looks like a moomin wearing a ball-gag.
    Must be snooze time *corks bottle, rinses glass*.

  27. durr says:

    strangely all i saw was a chef. what is the world coming to when everything isn’t a sexual innuendo anymore :(

  28. Matt V says:

    Yeah I’m pretty sure I’m never going to eat there…

  29. fez says:

    crap! im the 135 comment! son of a beach

  30. Sean Walker says:

    Looks like Christian birth control

  31. Loz says:

    I’m confused… I thought the fail was that the ‘entrez’ sign is on the inside, rather than the outside of the door.
    But people keep talking about penises and chefs.
    I guess it’s a double whammy.

    • itsacrazyasian says:

      Personally i still don’t see the chef.
      *goes back to saving money with Geico and watching Hot Fuzz*

      • fuzz on the concept says:

        ?

        • itsacrazyasian says:

          Google Hot Fuzz

        • sayuhmyooell says:

          fuzz on the concept makes me feel like i have little to no fuzziness on the concept

          • TMI Service says:

            The Middle English spelling of “concept” was “c-o-n-c-e-i-t,” as in I dare not lean to my own conceit , which in modern usage would be, “I don’t dare depend on my own concepts.”
            .
            The latter phrase comes from the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing, a work on meditative process and experience from the 1300′s. Its author understood that words and conceptual constructs are always already too late — they are more contingent and “made up” — than immediate, unadorned living experience.
            .
            He called the practice of stepping out from under the occluding impress that
            words and discursive thoughts have on our minds, “unknowing.” He urged his reader (who was a young monk) to let go of constructed, conceptual “knowing” and to cultivate instead a “naked, blind, feeling of being” — therein to know something undeniably actual, and simple, and beautiful.
            .
            Any manner of thought or experience that is less than that starkly immediate and honestly intimate connection with our lives as lived in the present moment is always and forever a kind of “fuzziness,” and one that is, in comparison to meditative clarity, an ultimately unsatisfying distraction.

            • Dragonwriter says:

              I’m not sure I adhere to that way of thinking. What if words are your “naked, blind, feeling of being”…? If words are, in fact, your way into something “actual, and simple, and beautiful”?

              By saying that anything that is not immediately or physically experienced is an “unsatisfying distraction” seems to me to be horrifically limiting. Why bother, then, to ever read a book? Or write one? Or get lost in poetry?

              And I’m sure I’m dreadfully simplifying a very complex idea, but…the thought that keeps going through my mind is, “There is more in Heaven and earth, Horatio…”

              Hee…I’m going to refer to your author as “Horatio” from now on..

              • ErickB says:

                *takes of clothes*
                *gets blindfold*
                *gropes*

              • fuzz on the concept says:

                It is not about adhering to a “way of thinking”; I’m afraid you have missed my intent.

                And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
                There are more things in heaven and earth, [my dear Dragonwriter],
                Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.

                .
                Since it’s Shakespeare that’s been referenced, I’m going to use a theater analogy. Let’s imagine, “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” On this stage, our philosophy and “way of thinking” would be our script. It’s the script that includes the words that describe our characteristic movements, and our typical demeanor, and what we characteristically say. In this analogy, contemplative practice, on the other hand (a.k.a., “meditation” or the practice of “unknowing”) would be the exercise of dis-identifying with our scripted stories, letting go of them long enough to appreciate — honestly and intimately — what is going on. Namely, the practice of giving ourselves the chance to appreciate and realize just how we are acting.
                .
                When we realize that we are actors in a “play,” when we appreciate the nature of our scripted character, we then have the opportunity to connect with, to remember, and to recollect a more original nature — who and what we are before we take up our scripted roles. Our roles are the socially-constructed personalities we bear, the habitual patterns of thought we hold (and end up being held by), along with the presumption that our waking, thinking minds are what “we” primarily are.
                .
                And ultimately, even more than who and what we are, when we have “shuffled off” the coils of our scripted personas, we have the opportunity to be received by, and be selflessly identified with, the fact that we are, the fact that anything at all is — the exquisite suchness of naked facticity — in an obvious, simple clarity and a vivid, stark sobriety that’s really different from any scripted acting and from any philosophy or any “way of thinking.”
                .
                And of course when we are most intimately, humbly, and directly connected and “realized” in that , then EVERYTHING is that — words and plays, silences and games, theater and poetry.
                .
                Words can be and are the “children” of that. They are an exemplification and bodying forth of life. And words can be a vehicle to connecting with that living miracle. But we must love them, and let them love us. We must ask their intent, their “will,” their heart. As you’ve heard me say at other times about spirituality, if we take religious language literally, we are not taking it seriously. The same goes of any worded expression.
                .
                There are many paths to re-connection (the etymological meaning of re-ligion). For me it is to let go of my ways of thinking, allow my own over-educated thoughts and words come to silence and “die”, in order to wake up to the obvious and beautiful.

                ’tis a consummation
                Devoutly to be wish’d.

                • Dragonwriter says:

                  And yet…I remember your reaction when you finally found that perfect word…that most fitting phrase that exemplified the intent and meaning of your translation just so…

                  Sublime. Glorious. Joy.

                  I understand what you are saying (I think), and I find it fascinating…but I do not think I agree.

                  Which is why discussions like these are so much fun. :grin:

                  • fuzz on the concept says:

                    What I’m talking is subtly different. It’s hard to put into words — and we can’t help but understand words in terms of what we already know and think, while the kind of experience I’m trying to describe often comes out of NOT knowing and thinking.
                    .
                    Here’s another acting analogy. If I imagine myself as a character on a movie screen, say a writer or a poet — I’m a character placed there on the screen by the light of the movie projector. And in the storyline of that movie, my character finding just the right word for my poem would be a moment of joy, it might even be the dramatic “climax” of my life as that writer character.
                    .
                    But the kind of contemplative experience I’m talking about, though, would instead be more like my character ceasing to act, no longer identifying with his script, and stilling his thoughts — in order to “just be.” And in doing that, in this kind of “just being,” he finds connection with his ground; he lets go of his “character” and selflessly touches his core. He realizes his fundamental nature. He sees the original and really, really simple truth. He touches the “obvious” — he’s made of light. He’s an expression of the light, the light that puts him there on the screen. He’s made of that light, that light which puts everything on the screen. That light indeed IS everything on that screen)
                    .
                    And now he knows that that moment of joy he had experienced when he was “given” just the right word was also always already something held and created by that light. His realization does not “destroy” his world, but it does “light it up” in an altogether different order of sublimity and joy.
                    .
                    Analogies of course always limp. But what I’m talking about is an experience more “sober” than any other, an experience I’ve glimpsed several times in my life. My own “character’s” life has been heartbreakingly difficult, but those vividly humbling moments of “ecstatic sobriety” keep me here.

  32. Mike says:

    i think its graffiti with magic marker its not a real fail

  33. Janusse says:

    Well I saw a chef right away, I actualy had to read your comments tofigure out there was something wrong with the drawing.
    I though you guys didn’t knew what ”Entrez” means.

    I guess I’m not as perverted as some of you here :P

  34. itsacrazyasian says:

    Someone’s not getting any.

  35. L@w says:

    the fail is that the sign says entrance while being inside the store so it should be exit
    or the penis thing

  36. Eric-San says:

    I thought that the fail was the guy’s shoes…

  37. thisisme says:

    First!!!

  38. ill-punch-you-in-the-face says:

    dude you are not first.your way off

  39. ~!@# says:

    The fail is the logo, not that it’s the wrong direction. Like yellow shoes said, it is a French Restaurant in Downtown Cincinnati. Here’s the website where you can clearly see it… http://jeanrobertgroup.com/pigalls

  40. Edmond Dantes says:

    It took me like 5 minutes to see the chef. I felt like that guy in Mallrats.

  41. Vernunft says:

    No fail here at all. Boo.

  42. joe says:

    what is it supposed to be?

  43. norm says:

    Joe, I think it’s an ad for skyline chili.

  44. 1disorientedchick says:

    Major Fail

  45. 7988jj says:

    that must mean that the store must have a poblem

  46. A Noun says:

    I stared at it for 10 minutes wondering why the picture of a chef was a fail.

    And then…

  47. craig says:

    Thats a restaurant door handle in Cincinnati, took the same photo years ago.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/thecraigmcrae/261447816/

  48. KillerKip says:

    I has an epic phail: “upside down anus” ?? wtf was I thinking? :-/ oh well must be the 5 AM typing thingy :P

  49. Galebreth says:

    sorry but it kinda look like buttsmex to me…

  50. sayuhmyooell says:

    wierdo, it is incoherentley and unarguably a retarded backwards rocket taking off on a tarmac situated between two valleys

  51. dorion55 says:

    it’s so big pen** :)

  52. deseeded says:

    I thought it was a penis working an Atari controller which is resting on a bean bag chair…

  53. Josh says:

    I don’t really get why this is a fail. It says “Enter” in French, so no misspellings and it’s very clearly a picture (albeit an abstract one) of a chef. I’m a little disappointed here. I’ve sent in waaaay fail-ier stuff than this and none of mine have ever made it to the blog.

  54. kittyface says:

    I don’t get why this is a fail. The first time I saw it, I saw a chef…and that is still all I see. The background is a reflection, so it was taken outside.

    It’s only an entrance sign with a chef on it hanging outside of some sort of establishment.

    I think this is a failblog fail.

  55. Preston says:

    on the second post Dana is totaly rightl, i didnt even see it untill i read that. that just confirms that my mind is completely corrupted. should i be proud?

  56. Artstsym says:

    Looks more like an EXIT to me.

  57. Bgirl says:

    Ok, am I the only one who saw the chef right away? I didn’t quite realize how it was a fail, I don’t really see anything else.

  58. EvilDave says:

    It looks like a cast bronze door handle, too.

    Somehow that ‘art’ made it past several eyes, even the machine guy who put the pattern in to the autolathe to cut the image into it.

    I can’t believe nobody spotted the ‘money shot’ in that image.

    I bet it’s on all the napkins, the plates, the restaurant’s sign, and various other fixtures, too.

  59. that1guy123 says:

    Fail?
    SEX NEVER FAILS
    Unless it’s an “obvious fail”

  60. Xmarks says:

    Facial.

  61. Mikie Dennis says:

    It looks like a penis pushing a mushroom up an ass.

  62. Kaylan says:

    Well, I don’t know about you guys. But I see a penis.

  63. Duo says:

    All I saw was a chef to start with… now after trying to see a shuttle… well I see a bit more.

    It looks like… well a penis, exiting someones rear… with a bit of a discharge.

  64. Kamikaze says:

    WTF? thats suppose to be a chef?
    i never would have guessed
    it just looks like…well do i need to say?

  65. that nympho band chick says:

    entrez is french for “Come in”

    language fail.

  66. Jbob says:

    Nobody’s noticed that the door leading to THE STREET is marked with ‘entrez’?

  67. nearfarz says:

    That’s the reflection of the street in the glass door. (And of the person taking the picture – you can make out their hand above the door handle) The more you know!

  68. attorneys says:

    entrez-vous senor?

  69. This is amazing because I used to, and still work there “even though they changed the door” this was a 4 star restaurant in Cincinnati Ohio. I would always walk by with someone I worked with and show it to them , and tell them what i think, they would always disagree / or not laugh, but then say,,,I guess I see what you are saying , but i see a chef. and it drove me insane. SOOOOOO FACE !!!!!!!, I’m not retarded


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