Tastes like chiken
For my purposes, I'm pretty good with Photoshop. One of the struggles I face as a result of that, is that whenever I show someone a funny image, they immediately assume it was something I "created" rather than "captured." To that end, I feel the need to preface this post by telling you that the following images are 100% authentic, and beyond cropping, no Photoshopping was involved.
I also have been accused, once or twice, of exaggerating some real events for the sake of entertainment. A common side effect of that is that people often don't believe me when I say something is 100% anything. I could tell a story, then say that it is 100% false, and someone out there would be like, "I don't know, it kind of sounds believable to me." It's the life that I lead, folks. It's hard being me. But in this case, when I tout 100% authenticity, you can bet your (valuable item here) that I mean it.
We got a puzzle for the boy from Target. It was in the $1 section, so why not? It's a puzzle of little cartoon barnyard animals. Underneath each puzzle piece is a drawing of the animal, as well as text identifying the animal. It looks like this:
So we're doing the puzzle with the boy one day, and we're naming the animals as we take off the puzzle pieces. We remove the cow, the horse, the pig. All is well. Then we get to the lamb. Or so we thought:

I'm all about crazy fonts, but I don't think that's a "B" at the end. That says "lamp" to me. But it's just unclear enough where someone could argue that it is actually correct. Unlike when we lifted the "chicken" as seen below:

There's no argument to be made in this case. That says "chiken." At least the puzzle wasn't made in the USA. And it only cost $1.




Comments
Jon said:
So, are you suggesting that this is not a good learning tool? I think I’d hang on to that one for those future spelling tests that he gets wrong. You can take that back to the teacher and at least get him some partial credit.
carrotjello said:
Well, if it's made in Japan, Korea, or China, I can totally understand. I bought some hello kitty toothpaste. It was called "Booby". My favorite site is www.engrish.com.
Katie said:
::Clutches heart in horror::
Radioaktive Lamp Chops said:
Sorry, I just don't 'c' a problem here.
"Buk... buk... buk... BGAK!" -- Super Chiken
cadiz12 said:
with the chiken, i'm thinking maybe it was part of that big push to make spelling more phonetic, you know with the use of 'thru' and 'naybor.' but there is no excuse for the lamb thing. wool and lightbulbs just don't mix.
X said:
Maybee it iz just mor konveenient for evrywun tu yooz fonetik speling. I no I woodent hav an ishoo with it.
---X
Glo said:
I say yay for the foreign empire that improved upon the english being taught to our kids. The said part - I wonder how many other parents bought that puzzle and never noticed the errors. *sigh*
Cate said:
Sorry, but my inner "authenticity police" (airquotes and everything) are sort of screaming some warnings on this one. 100%? Highly unlikely, they say.
Viking said:
Could have been worse... That duck is just asking for a typo!
elasticwaistbandlady said:
This goes a long way towards the rampant misspellings in pop music. Stars like Ludacris, the members of Klymaxx, Staind, and The Fixx, and those who wrote Country GrammEr for Nelly, all must have had similar, damaging educational puzzles in their formative youth years too.
I smell class action lawsuit!
Syar said:
You mean...that's not how you spell chiken??
what do you bet that thing was made in Malaysia?
wendela said:
At first I thought the puzzle maker was related to the Chick-Fil-A cows but even they spell it a little differently (chikin). I can forgive them, being cows and all.
After what elastic pointed out, I think instead of the lawsuit your son may be destined for a very lucrative career in music. But just for the sake of my OCD, please get a green sharpie and put a C between that I and K. Thank you.
I said:
The sticker on the back says it was made in China.
X, that comment was disturbingly easy to read.
Lia said:
apapnterlry it is psoslibe to raed wrods as long as all the ltteers are psrenet and the frsit and lsat lteters are creorct.
Taht was hrader to tpye tahn I thguoht. Bieng dsyphagric msut be hrad.