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Our plumber is archaic!
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2009/02/14 - 1:00pm
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Engrishfunny.com regularly posts pictures of some pretty puzzling signs, but I think that this one takes the cake:

http://engrishfunny.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/engrish-funny-plumber.jpg

If the plumber is archaic, does that mean that he speaks Middle English or something?

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2009/02/16 - 11:55am
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How funny! laugh I like to try to figure out how these kinds of mistakes happen. Perhaps the writer meant to say that the Plumbing is Archaic! Meaning, I suppose, that the plumbing is ancient (old, clogs-up easily, etc.). They may have typed plumber by mistake for plumbing. Helen from Lemonland

Martha Barnette
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2009/02/17 - 6:14pm
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Heh. Of course, my immediate thought was that the plumber must be muscular and nude with a very stiff walk. Anybody else here spend lots of hours in art history classes and have that come to mind?

At least the sign didn't say the plumber was dasypygal.

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