My son Jonathan, the USC student who is actually majoring in Videogames, has turned me on to a new sport: looking for odd, poorly translated signs in English that usually pop up in foreign countries. He bagged quite a few good ones while traveling in China, Japan and South Korea over the past couple of years.
Our family has just come back from a week-long cruise through Mexico on the Royal Caribbean line of ships. We boarded on New Year's Eve so we got to celebrate the bringing in of the New Year in the Grand Ballroom. As the writer of one of the THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE re-makes, it was pretty crazy being on a cruise ship where you've written scenes that capsize a ship on New Year's Eve. Our boat, however, was not toppled by tidal waves or terrorists and proceded without incident through the rest of the cruise.
We had the most amazing day in Puerto Vallarta (more on that later), but we also ended up spending a day in Mazatlan where we found this sign. I think you'll agree that it pretty much speaks for itself.
That's right. "HERE IS MEXICAN BOB BARKER STORE COME ON DOWN THE PRICE IS RIGTH."
A little on the long side, maybe, but catchy nonetheless...
