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Posted
26 May 2007 @ 5pm

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Hypocrisy through Motiviational Posters

Very funny, Kevin.

Photo credit: Scott Beale of laughingquid

(Some people might wonder how I might be okay with this photo when I posted a tirade about Mister Wong just a week ago. Easy: context. I know Kevin, I like Kevin, we can make fun of each other. It also helps that, honestly, the photograph is throughly hilarious.)


24 Comments

Posted by
dorid
26 May 2007 @ 6pm

so…. is it ok if I laugh, too?


Posted by
Ariel
26 May 2007 @ 7pm

is this a lolasian?? i r in ur countlee, gettin ur visas.


Posted by
Jenny
27 May 2007 @ 5am

That just made my day.


Posted by
Naladahc
27 May 2007 @ 6am

lolasians…

Bwhahahahahah!


Posted by
Robin Yap
27 May 2007 @ 9am

Context indeed. Plus the fact that when we know the person we laugh about it instead. I think I have to blog about this as well. Thanks for the photos and links Ernie


Posted by
Alison
27 May 2007 @ 11am

Great photo. I didn’t get the caption so I had to say it out loud. Got it.


Posted by
Frankie
27 May 2007 @ 2pm

This certainly put a smile on my face. We need to be able to laugh at ourselves.

But only once in awhile.

Any more and we’re that crazy homeless guy down at the bus stop.


Posted by
JoBaby
27 May 2007 @ 6pm

My dear little yellow unmet friend:

I don’t know who you are or how I found you, but I look forward to any new postings each week. My only complaint is that you don’t post often enough!!

U B FUNNY. Keep it up. FYI - more conversations with your mother, please!


Posted by
:: jozjozjoz ::
27 May 2007 @ 11pm

Proof that you never know what will show up next on LYD.


Posted by
jay
28 May 2007 @ 8am

Hee. Very funny.

(whispers: hypocrisy, not hypocracy… i’m pretty sure!)


Posted by
Ian
28 May 2007 @ 8am

*pedant warning*
But Mandarin is full of /l/s …e.g. the Li sisters (Gong & Jett) and its /r/ sound is really problematic to us anglophones. Are you secretly Japanese? (sorry)


Posted by
ernie
28 May 2007 @ 10am

(Thanks Jay, I changed the spelling.)


Posted by
michael Craig
29 May 2007 @ 7am

I hope we meet one day before one of us dies!


Posted by
Sherri
29 May 2007 @ 1pm

That photo makes me want to give you a cookie or something so you’ll stop giving me the pity eyes.


Posted by
doodle
29 May 2007 @ 7pm

You’re simply adorable.


Posted by
Long Story Longer
30 May 2007 @ 1am

Good god, this made me laugh. Nice.


Posted by
funny
30 May 2007 @ 8am

you are hilarious. i look forward to reading your blog!


Posted by
Ken
30 May 2007 @ 12pm

Offensively hilarious.

Though, I should note that the correct stereotypical grammar would be “Preez *to* be retting me in *you* countlee”


Posted by
sneexe
30 May 2007 @ 7pm

I dunno … I didn’t find the Mr Wong thing offensive at all… do you think the social climate in America makes things seem all blown up outta proportion when it comes to being “politically correct” ???

Reminds me of a book that came out a long time ago- politically correct fairytales…


Posted by
eric
2 June 2007 @ 3pm

thanks for providing 4 minutes of saturday afternoon rss reader laugh out loud zen. oh, ernie, we miss you!


Posted by
Jeffrey Keefer
4 June 2007 @ 9pm

You look so thin, whhoooohoooooooo! Keep up the good work, Ernie!


Posted by
Jess
10 June 2007 @ 9pm

Nope. Not funny at all.

As white as I am, I’m not taking any chances around you these days! So no, that wasn’t me smiling or chuckling. Just someone who looked like me! (I mean, we white guys all look alike to you, don’t we?)

*ducking*


Posted by
Tearpak.
10 June 2007 @ 10pm

I want this in a VERY large size format.


Posted by
8 Asians » Context?
17 July 2007 @ 1pm

[…] As Ernie mentions on his personal blog, context counts. […]


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