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Perhaps. I Don’t actually THINK s
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Neither do I. You’re very convincing.
…and cute and fluffy.
You know this is a joke right? Like if I named a book “Copyeditting for Dummies.”
an ex-girlfriend of many years ago had a post-it note by her computer that said “proofreed!”
What’s that on the road a
head?
This is not a failure. It is a joke. That is the point in the poster. This is obvious. They “did not plan ahead” and hence the typography error. It is false irony, and that is the joke.
Yep, my uncle had something like this framed by the typewriter when I was a child… I don’t know if it was originally my grandfather’s or not, but it was funny.
It baffles me the amount of intentional NON-Fails that this site posts. This is a very, very, very old joke, that anybody who has been alive for 10 years should have seen at least twice by now.
Never underestimate the failures of the American Educational system. To most of us, the intent of the sign is painfully obvious. To others, they see it as irony because they lack even the shallowest form of insight.
Calling this sign a fail: FAIL
Not shopped. This joke is older than I am. We’re talking formation of the earth old here.
That means 6000 years or so, right?
*does it right*
Was that your first time?
That’s a bit personal!
so?
don’t be rude!
But I wanted to plan behin
d
Then reverse the polar
ity
“And what are your future plans?”
Mt future plans depend on how my present plans go.
If at first you don’t succee
d…
then fail agai
n.
Dammit, Lou, ladies first!
Ooops, I didn’t see you coming.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Do me as I do you.
I do. Do you?
Done.
♪ Do be do be do… ♪
♪ Da do do do, da dar dar dar ♪
♪ Da do run run run, da do run run ♪
♫ De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da ♫
♫ De do run run run, de do run run ♫
♪ You go back, Jack, do it again ♪
The way of the dodo?
D'OH!♫ Do ba do ba do… ♫
♪ A case of “Did he do?” or “Did he die?” ♪
Jungle love! do be do be
do♪
Just looked up the lyrics to Steve Miller’s “Jungle Love” and saw for the first time that the third line is “I brought you a crate of papaya”. That solves a 30-year mystery.
Not finding the “do be do be” line tho’. Must be a different version.
You clearly didn’t get the kevin smith refrence.
Let’s not go there, it is a very uncomfortable place.
What like the back of a Volts-wagon?
*snickers*
Sp.
*kit kats*
I find the joules-wagon more uncomfortable, personally.
It lacks amp-le space? Or is there another reason for your resistance?
No, watt shocks me is it lacks magnetism.
That’s a bit negative.
ht tp://failblog.org/2010/01/15/sign-fail-23/#comment-751693
I have serious gaps in my popular culture knowledge.
That is because most of the popular culture today is pointless and or a bit shit.
(Kevin Smith is worth catching up on though)
Me too. In fact I’d say I have p p ar ult r kn l dg .
You do, however, clearly have a good grasp of space.
Whoandwhatnow?
Goodbye horses clicky.
Smith has the beard.
*beardsqueeze*
Ahhh! I see.
*tankoosqueeze*
Silent Bob!
Woohoo
can I just say, The Moomin has to be one of the BEST usernames I have ever seen
duuuuuuuuuuuude
next commenter is actually gay
Very clever! Are you the sign maker?
You DO seem lively and cheerful today, MRN.
Yeah, but that’s about it for me. Gay time is over, I need some sleep now that it’s almost time to get up. TTFN.
FAKE and gay!
Dammit! I missed the opportunity to be turned!
Try a lathe next time.
*tries lathe*
Oooh, I’ve always wondered how a döner kebab must feel.
You’re my gyro!
You misspelled gyno.
Now spread ‘em!
Potato?
That wood work.
every good turn deserves a hairy plotterHem, I a ninny?
Hem, hem on the Granger?Where the dear and the Ron Weasleys play?
*THINKS*
How does it offend me? Let me count the ways …
5?
Three is right out!
I’ll say it before anyone else does: not 42.
69 dude?
Or 67 (if you’re too short).
could be 71…if you’re too long…
Beings are numberless -- I vow to number them.Let’s do this properly or not at all!
Oh the iro
ny.
Irony? Or executing a lesson within the sign itself
?
“Fail” fail –
I’ve seen those signs for sale.
They are that way on purpose, to drive home the point in the message.
A) You are right: anything on sale cannot be a fail
B) I prefer to drive home on a car rather than on a sign. Specially if the car has seat heaters.
That explains your hot body.
I will drive that body to yours.
Be careful while driving: dangerous curves are slippery when wet.
If those are the same curves that get wet when licked then we might have a security problem.
Oh, security was breached long ago. All defenses are down, fire when ready.
Hot pants?
Well take them out of the oven then.
*shakes head in despair*
But the buns aren’t done yet!
pantie loons*shakes a leg in this pair*
Definitely a “Fail” fail. http://www.zazzle.com/plan+ahead+gifts
Photoshopped.
There’s no way those fonts could exist in real life, they would destabilise the universe. I know cos I got an email about it once. I had to forward it to ten people within ten minutes or I would be pickle surprised for eternity and all my noses would drop off.
I’d love to see that ^^^ power a Fail someday.
I really should plan ahea
d, and possibly not write the first thing that comes into my head huh!
And yet, they fill a void in my life.
… or something like that.
“And yet, they fill a void in my life.”
Sex: You’re doing it wrong!
He’s not the one that ended up the last man on Earth. Just saying.
*snork* I think I (meaning you) just woke up the rest of the household.
@ Moomin: That’s right! Don’t follow the rules which were only created to keep ya’ down!
Correct, that was A.S. Neil.
The founder of Summerhill school?
Yorick and his pet monkey?
Exactly! Did you never read “The Last Man Alive”?
I’ve read “Y: The Last Man” and “I, Legend”, also seen “The Omega Man” and “I, Legend”, but not “The Last Man Alive”.
I think we have a minimum of three last men alive, they should have a fight.
We have to plan ahea
d, because it’ll be difficult for the three of them to accidentally meet on a deserted planet.
(Read it! Great fun!)
Highlander principle?
(clicky)
Name fail on my part?
It just led nicely into the comment.
*squeeze*
*squeeze graciously accepted and returned*
They are a void you fill in your life perhaps?
That’s it! I couldn’t put my finger on it.
Why, was there a chastity belt?
My lips are sealed.
*steals MRN’s “o” and replaces it with an “i”*
Histoire d’O?
Or the story of I? Don’t be letterist!
Belletrist, then?
I was thinking potatoes.
I usually am.
Don’t forget the midgets. They can be very jealous.
They got disease from the flies. You should clean down there more often.
I’ve stopped washing and shaving so I can be more European.
@jam
Why use the reply button? Break free from the constraints enforced by “the man”. Comment where you will at who you will. It will be magnificent. Or confusing.
*Screamsinterror*
*hides*
Can we start insulting you and providing inarticulate nonsensical arguments as to why Europe is ace now?
Awww… I feel so accepted! *hugs* Oh, sorry about the stank.
Of course! Sorry, my brain is mashed.
I was thinking sweet potatoes.
I usually yam.
A Mangoes into a bar……
…looking for a date…
…but his banana is too soft and…
…so he fails to pop her cherry…
… and ends up feeling like a lemon …
…now that was a turnip for the books.
Plan ahead, go to a different signmaker?
In all seriousness (is there such thing?) does anyone know how I can get a custom sign, similar to this this, made for me?
I want a particular message on my flat-mate’s door…
How flat is your mate? Accident involving a bus?
Steam roller, no longer requires a key, can get in through the letterbox, or under the front door if we move the draft excluder.
But doesn’t it make the catflap impassable?
I happen to have a very large cat…
On occasion, but since I staightened the cats’ fur there is a lot more room to play with.
There are signwriters who will do anything (within reason). On the other hand, for your purpose, competent desktop publishing and a laminator (which those business-services-type shops that do photocopies, faxes, binding, etc., will offer) would probably work as well.
Up the road from where I live, there is a signage firm whose name appears in large illuminated letters on the side of their premises. Since a month or two after this sign went up, at least a third of it has been out of order …
No, really, it was on purpose. They do it that way for…*GASP*…humor?
♪ Allyson, I know this world is killing you ♪
Because there are few things funnier than a sign with capitalization on the 87% of the words.
♪ I guess it doesn’t matter anymore ♪
Calling for backup… Allyson is still breathing!
fake and gay
gay and fake
lake and break
Its like the pot calling the kettle black.
If the pot talks, you’re probably in Beauty and the Beast. Typesetting is the least of your worries. RUN!
My pot is white porcelain. If it was black, I’d need to see a doctor.
Get it arrested for racism?
I’ll start that motion eventually but there appears to be a hold up.
Sometimes you just have to take the plunge.
U bending my ear now? :p
No, just in cistern gently.
You can’t say black. You have to say “African American.” Even if the kettle is Jamaican.
You can’t say pot in the same sentence though as it implies ethnic stereotyping. The phrase should be. . .
“It’s like one cooking utensil calling another cooking utensil an ethnic minority.”
What the fork?
We have to be knife about things nowadays.
Sooner or ladle this political correctness thing will wear off.
Sorry I am ladle, what did I miss?
♫ She's a ladle. Whoa whoa whoa, she's a ladle. ♫♫ Because the knife belongs to lovers.
Because the knife belongs to us. ♫
You’re right. People have memories like sieves, it’ll soon be forgotten about.
Probably before we flip the colander.
It’s funnel the ways these trends come and go.
It is always a whisk-y business.
I’m surprised no-one has thought of a spoonerism yet.
*spork*
this thread is grate-r.
someone will think of one spooner or later
forgot reply
They’d baster do it quickly.
I hope it doesn’t turn into a spat-ula.
You will have to Jelly (mould) a bit louder, I am a trifle deaf.
I do hope you gateau-ver it.
someone will think of one spooner or later
damn, i want to have that sig
n
thats awesom
e
it takes a certain skil
l
to make signs as good as this on
e
dam
n
i have to plan ahea
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ummm… yeah. I get the joke. That was done intentionally.
i’m guessing it’d be too cliche to note that this was done on purpose and is therefore no fail at all?
“You are strongly encouraged to suspend disbelief and go with any interpretation that would be funny if true…” (clickie)
Kerning Fail
@BETH – agreed!
If you’d only clicked reply, you could have saved yourself some typing.
Let’s try to be more efficient in future.
where’s the fun in that? after all, this is failblog.
Lol, it’s an evident joke and actually a sign that plays with the message..
Submitter fail!!
*sigh* Yes.
I vote for it being a deliberate typo. It is obviously a computer printout. It would have been obvious from the preview that it wasn’t right. If there is any kind of fail here, it is from the lack of punctuation at the end, and the bad flow from the last two words.
THINK
Do it right the first time!
Plan ahea
d
The plan ahead part just throws it off, even aside from being on two lines. I’m not sure they were going for poetry, but it sounds like it up until that point.
You forget the uneven capitalization of the first sentence.
I think this sign displays a good use of irony to convey a message in a humorous and memorable way. I say the sign is actually a “win” in that it does what it was intended to do. If the type had been set “properly” the sign wouldn’t have nearly the same impact.
~Really? Do you think so?~
this is obviously meant to be humorous: here’s a website selling these signs: http://www.manuf-apps-estore.com/Brady-38085-GreenBlack-on-White-THINK-7-H-x-10-W-BradyTuff-Plastic-Signs_p_162099.html
yeah, it’s kind of funny, but putting it on failblog means anything mildly entertaining is fair game. hey, let’s put up that garfield cartoon where jon can’t get a date!
Boring.
It’s a JOKE, not a fail!
we have one of those at my work
it’s an intentional mistake so not really a fail
I would also like to go on record as saying that this isn’t a fail.
Those that FAIL to plan, plan to FAIL.
You can buy these online. Can’t believe anybody could look at this and think it was a mistake.
Submission fail!
here’s the sign, look a the bottom of the pic and see who made it.
http://www.bradyid.com/bradyid/scv/100182/100182/Signs/Safety-and-Facility-Signs/Funny-Signs.html
ahea by ikea. the next generation.
I suppose you didn’t know that it was done on purpose, in order to make a poin
t?
Wow, the fact that someone posted this picture up here should be that fail, it was done on purpose to show why you need to plan ahead.
Slow fail day, I guess.
The firm making that sign, Brady, makes things like wire labels used for labeling wire in industrial type control panels.
We have one of those humorous signs up in our shop floor:
DANGER
Only sissies read instruction manuals!
I’d call the campaign an Epic Win for Brady.
What happend? Did Candle Jack come and take him away or somethi
Looks fine when you view it in Opera.
Obviously not a fail. The sign was purposely made that way.
So only fail here, is to post this picture thinking that it was a fail.
Definitely a win
these ones annoy me so much that they are even on here, because obviously it is done on purpose… This shouldn’t even be on this website.
failblog is slowly going to shit. more and more of these unfunny non-fails are going up here. the submitter and everyone who voted this up obviously has no sense of humor, yet thinks they do. it just makes the site frustrating instead of entertaining.
This isn’t a fail it’s supposed to be like that. ur right Failblog IS taking a dump
This is not a fail, its a joke.
I used to think this was a clever blog run by clever people, but lately, I don’t know…
How can you not know this was intentional? It’s actually a really old joke and I’ve seen it many times before.
I think it is a rather genious way to help one remember the point.
Yep, my uncle had something like this framed by the typewriter when I was a child… I don’t know if it was originally my grandfather’s or not, but it was funny
kind of funny, but why didn’t they just redo the sign?
Those who r saying “it’s not a Fail, it’s irony”…..that’s b/c all these recent pics used to be on the other site, “Friends of Irony,” and for some reason Cheezburger Network SHUT THAT SITE DOWN and absorbed the pics into “FailBlog.”
Thus, the “ironic” pictures are now under “Fail,” even though they are NOT “fails.” *facepalm* That in itself is a fail….and, sadly, ironic.
Way to mislabel everything to try to save $$$, Cheezburger! I am unsubscribing to this feed.
not planning ahea
d
…. now that’s gangsta!
last!!!!