Sir, you’ve got a call on the extraordinary phone…

Sir, you’ve got a call on the extraordinary phone…

posted on 25 Apr 2018 in Signs

companion-mind

I’ve got half a companion mind to buy this.

Photo courtesy of NS.
Found in Japan. 

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algernon
algernon
6 years ago

Babies and wheelchairs not included

seventy2rd o clock
seventy2rd o clock
6 years ago

That would be iPhone X – it is nearly extraordinary top-notch phone!

Droll not Troll
Droll not Troll
6 years ago

I see a phone booth out standing by the road. Will that do?

algernon
algernon
6 years ago

But where do I stick it

Running Comment
Running Comment
6 years ago

To quote Arthur Balfour, the text of this notice is “characterised by a certain wooliness of thought and indecision of purpose”.

Droll not Troll
Droll not Troll
6 years ago

My companion is a cat. Lots of luck figuring out the direction of that mind!

Marum
Marum
6 years ago

I need an (expletive deleted) phone.

Droll not Troll
Droll not Troll
6 years ago

♪ ♫ Come on baby light my buzzer ♪ ♫

seventy2rd o clock
seventy2rd o clock
6 years ago

– Hello? I would like to give you a connection between people in wheelchairs and babies in diapers but unfortunately I can’t.

Marum
Marum
6 years ago

@Run Com 0410. Sounds like our Aussie pollies. One journo asked a question of one our Cabinet Ministers 3 times last week.

All three times, she failed to even address the question.

Yu No Hoo
Yu No Hoo
6 years ago

Use only when giant babies need rescue from path of wheelchair user.

Marum
Marum
6 years ago

The Mikado (which I love best of all G & S.) applies to thaat lady politician.

Is it weakness of intellect Birdie I cried,
Or a very tough worm in your little inside,
With a shake of his poor little head he replied,
“Oh. Willow. Tit willow, tit willow.”

G.& S. used to mystify my la Filipino kerido.

Kerido (Tag) = Querido (Esp)

Yu No Hoo
Yu No Hoo
6 years ago

I’m sorry, I’m out of my mind at the moment, please leave a message.

Marum
Marum
6 years ago

@72rd 0414.

To be in a wheelchair is f—–g inconvenient.

So too are babies, when you are still single.

Marum
Marum
6 years ago

Song; Tit Willow.

Where Koko serenades Katisha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sou331FNeU4

DrLex
DrLex
6 years ago

Why settle for extraordinary if you can also have nearly extraordinary?

Frank Burns
Frank Burns
6 years ago

Must be a telephone from “The Matrix”.

Marum
Marum
6 years ago

I fell upon something which may amuse you all.
Groucho Marx singing the Mikado. I just about fell into hysterics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T83W3rgQuXQ

Pete
Pete
6 years ago

Alfred, this is me.
The bat phone’s battery died and the one in my utility belt is a dud.
I had to use the extraordinary phone to let you know I need a replacement.
Send Robin to bring me a new one. On the double, please!

Pete
Pete
6 years ago

Will translate the Japanese in the sign after several more hours.
Gonna give other posters some space first.

But I WILL note this: I’m assuming the sender, named Niku Sissonen (Finnish, by any chance?) must catch UNMITIGATED razzing HELL in terms of friends & colleagues joking & laughing about his name.

Why? Simple.
Because…..the word “Niku” in Japanese means “Meat”.

(hehe.)

Yu No Hoo
Yu No Hoo
6 years ago

If you have an ordinary phone, just buy another one the exact same. Now you have an extra ordinary phone.

Droll not Troll
Droll not Troll
6 years ago

One nearly extraordinary ringy dingy, two nearly extraordinary ringy dingies!! Is this the companion mind to whom I am speaking?

Pete
Pete
6 years ago

@DnT 5:45,

Classic Lily Tomlin, mate!
I remember watching her do that on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In in the late ’60’s – early ’70’s and as a 9 to 10 year old that routine kept me in stitches!

Big Fat Cat
Big Fat Cat
6 years ago

Man: I want connection !
Woman: Connection denied unless you are an extraordinary phone.

Marum
Marum
6 years ago

If the phone belongs to your lady. You may ask permission to adjust the ring.

Marum
Marum
6 years ago

If I were in a building with a red lamp out front, I think I would greatly resent anybody trying to rescue me.

Marum
Marum
6 years ago

On second thoughts. It might depend on how long I had been in for.:evil:

Marum
Marum
6 years ago

👿

Long Tom
Long Tom
6 years ago

The sign made me think of the Chinese movie “Raise The Red Lantern”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raise_the_Red_Lantern

Pete
Pete
6 years ago

OK, I’ve waited long enough.

The Japanese simply says:

Please cooperate during emergencies by being careful with the red lamp or the buzzer. Please contact us on the emergency phone nearby.

“Companion mind?”
No idea where they got this. Could have come from the word “Kata” in this case meaning “People who…” or “Persons who…” will be careful with the red lamp or buzzer. Except in English it’s totally unnecessary to even include it in the translation.

Whatever.

Once again…pay some Gaijin who knows Japanese well just a LITTLE money for an understandable translation, ya tightwads!

UCity
UCity
6 years ago

The extraordinary telephone: you don’t enter a number, it knows who receives your call.

Tom41
Tom41
6 years ago

Trust me, it’s not THAT extraordinary…

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