Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for December 22, 2019

I’m sure I’ve heard “Farb Now the Glimrod” somewhere before. I can only give this one ‘Like’ but it’s worth a bunch more. :-D

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Beautiful recycle with new intro!

The instructions were written by Professor Stanley Unwin.

Read the instructions backward. They work better.

It’s all Zen. You just have know the yin and the yang of of reading Chinese instructions. Then you will understand the Taoism of how things are done in China. Maybe.

Gotta love the Chinese sense of humor.

I’m an American living in Japan. So I can relate. For example, a policeman once cautioned me for crossing a street before the light turned green. But he said “blue”. If I had followed his instructions, I’d still be stuck at a crosswalk somewhere. (The reason for his mistake? In Japanese, traffic lights are red, yellow, or blue.)

It’s not bad nowadays. Go back to the manuals for Japanese stereo and camera gear from the ’60s and early ’70s if you really want a laugh!!

I always thought that the elves built Santa’s sleigh.

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Yay! A real Sunday comic, not just a one panel gag like the dailies.

I am a pretty good mechanic but the picto gram instructions can leave you baffled

They forgot all the magic words that help. . .#$%!, &*%#!. . .and so forth and so on. . .

I think putting things together is most of the fun

I was setting up a new change selling machine in a casino. It was from China. Under the section titled Field Setup was this gem: “DO NOT SET UP IN FIELD! Machine was made for inside.”

Waiting until the last minute is mocking Murphy’s Law.

I, actually, like reading the Chinese directions. They have a problem with the word syntax in English. Sometimes it comes out hilarious!

If at first you don’t succeed read the instructions.

I bought a Honda scooter in 1963. The troubleshooting section had this gem. Symptom: Will not run. Problem: Wasted out of fuel.

We got our sled from IKEA. There were lots of extra parts.

what’s the matter? haven’t you ever farbed a glimrod before?

I put together a mast style TV stand a couple of days ago. Initially confusing halfway, by ‘virtue’ of accommodating different brands, I have a lot of parts left over.

We had to put together something from China – it was even stamped with a Tmand Mank…get it?

http://www.engrish.com/

Seems like most everything I get that needs assembly and is made in China has at least one part that just doesn’t quite go together as it should. Makes me wonder if overworked and underpaid folks over there don’t sometimes do it on purpose, laughing as they picture us fussing and cussing.

Somehow I simply don’t find that very funny. Stick to the Treetops setting….

“Some Assembly Required.” The three words that strike terror into any parents’ heart on Christmas morning.

“Fripping at the frimfram, frappin at the fritz!”

The most recent directions I’ve seen don’t have words, only pictures. Sometimes you have to stand on your head to figure them out. I do worry for those people with limited spatial ability.

OK, But for next year, have one built in-house.

Or as the Wiz would say, frammin at the Jim jam, frippin at the krotz.

I gave my Dad a Genuine Chinese Abacus one Christmas , anticipating that the Genuine Chinese Instructions would be confusing. It didn’t disappoint — we got a Genuine Canadian Mathematician to sort it out for us. He was almost in tears by the second page!

What?, no ‘Die you Yankee Devil, you!’?