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Top 5 Misspelled Vinyl Wall Decals

Posted by Helen Killer

74 comments

Play nice, you guys. Don’t make me call the manger.

Well, don’t just sit there! You are mountain is waiting!

And I never want to live in a room with typos on purple walls.

Don’t just escape from some day life, escape from every day life. Every last one. And do it in your bathroom.

It’s a good thing John Denver is dead, because this would have killed him.

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Jun 24, 2010
9:36 am

#1 iamhydrogen14 :

Place nice or you’ll get the mange! You kids’ll take a lot of shit at school when big clumps of hair start to go missing!

Rate this comment: +58

Jun 24, 2010
9:36 am

#2 TooManyCookbooks :

I feel like taunting an English teacher friend of mine with these, but given that the school year just ended I’m afraid it will be enough to make her snap and crush me with the OED.

Rate this comment: +20

Jun 24, 2010
9:38 am

#3 katesque :

My dad always insisted that the lyric was “you fill out my census”…so it could have been worse.

Rate this comment: +137

Jun 24, 2010
9:39 am

#4 curlytopnola :

wow.
i guess the front lines of the war on illiteracy isn’t in the classroom, but at home.
all together that’s:
my senses feel that you and your mountain should escape every day and live with out the mange.
truly, words to live by.

Rate this comment: +57

Jun 24, 2010
9:39 am

#5 sar-sar :

OMG, it took me a minute to realize that was supposed to be a John Denver quote. Holy grandma’s feather bed, I’m sure John Denver is rolling in his grave or wondering about the quality of that rocky mountain high someone was on when they typed that!

Rate this comment: +22

Jun 24, 2010
9:39 am

#6 TooManyCookbooks :

And honestly, ‘feel up my sense’? I’m amazed anyone could put those words together in that order without realising there was something amiss. Is that even supposed to mean anything? Is like some kind of pervy psychic power?

Rate this comment: +48

Jun 24, 2010
9:40 am

#7 joshpincusiscrying :

Show me on the gator where the sleepy blue ocean touched you.
(Did I use that joke once already?)

Rate this comment: +174

Jun 24, 2010
9:40 am

#8 shitmyexsaid :

I don’t care WHAT anybody says, I DO NOT want my senses felt up by a lime green cartoon alligator. A cartoon blue ocean maybe. A lime green cartoon alligator? Notsomuchthanks!

The “mangement?” Who is the mange meant for?

Rate this comment: +20

Jun 24, 2010
9:41 am

#9 Patty has been abducted by an Alien :

The “every day life” thing must be a Twilight fan… get it? “Day” life…? Because of the vampire thing…?

*crickets chirp*

You guys are feeling my senses with sadness at my lame joke.

Rate this comment: +45

Jun 24, 2010
9:42 am

#10 captaincavegirl :

Interestingly enough, I once got felt up at night in the forest.

Rate this comment: +23

Jun 24, 2010
9:42 am

#11 envy :

Dude, “mangement” — that almost sounds fun, like whimsicle fuckery fun. I think I almost want that on a t-shirt, just not one with a vagina…

Rate this comment: +6

Jun 24, 2010
9:42 am

#12 LeeLooDallas :

These are grate.

Rate this comment: +78

Jun 24, 2010
9:43 am

#13 Zira :

I’ve always hated that Winnie the Pooh quote. “I want to die before you to spare myself the pain of losing you. Your pain at losing me, however…meh, whatever. You’re dying tomorrow anyway.”

Rate this comment: +133

Jun 24, 2010
9:43 am

#14 Zira :

I’m impressed that they were able to slap that wall quote across the corner of their bathroom wall. Because that’s not Photoshopped, no, never.

Rate this comment: +44

Jun 24, 2010
9:45 am

#15 beaglemixtape :

I’ve always wanted to be felt up by John Denver. Oh wait…wasn’t supposed to say that out loud…

Rate this comment: +36

Jun 24, 2010
9:46 am

#16 IscreamUscream :

That’s not a sleepy blue ocean feeling you up–it’s a jellyfish.

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Jun 24, 2010
9:47 am

#17 ladycrim :

Man, I don’t want to know about a bird feeling up a crocodile …

Rate this comment: +5

Jun 24, 2010
9:48 am

#18 RuthX :

They say that with modern spellcheck/grammar check tools it doesn’t matter if people learn proper grammar and spelling unless they’re editing publications. This is, of course, utter bullshit.

Rate this comment: +40

Jun 24, 2010
9:49 am

#19 rocza :

I tutor English. I am very tempted to “convo” the seller with all the grammar, word choice, and sentence structure macros I have at my disposal.

Rate this comment: +30

Jun 24, 2010
9:50 am

#20 roughdiamond :

I am so distracted by the ugly font on the “Play Nice” decal. Mangement is going to have to send a memo out on that one.

Rate this comment: +18

Jun 24, 2010
9:53 am

#21 MyEyesMyEyes :

I was going to do an alligator theme in my son’s bathroom but I don’t think it would be appropriate to feel up his senses. And, my husband tries to feel mine enough; writing it on the wall would be like a legal contract to him.

Rate this comment: +40

Jun 24, 2010
9:58 am

#22 Holytape :

If I ever entered a playroom with that Winnie the Poo quote, I would quickly round up all the sharp scissors. It’s like the twilight books condensed. Boring, creepy and sort of makes you want to kill yourself.

Rate this comment: +34

Jun 24, 2010
10:00 am

#23 LeeLooDallas :

Buy a diksionery for Christ’s seek!

Rate this comment: +24

Jun 24, 2010
10:06 am

#24 Schnack :

“Play Nice” isn’t just misspelled- it’s been (poorly) copied from the awesome johnwgolden. http://www.etsy.com/listing/49394497/play-nice-6-in-x10-in-print

We have a few of his posters up in our kids’ rooms, and I can guarantee that there are no typos.

Rate this comment: +8

Jun 24, 2010
10:07 am

#25 razberries :

Helen, that last one and the John Denver joke was beyond perfect

Anyoo, all kids love being felt up, right?

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Jun 24, 2010
10:20 am

#26 Recovering Crack Baby :

I could feel up my wall with these, purrfect. You’re grand Killer. The Mangement told me so.

Rate this comment: +7

Jun 24, 2010
10:21 am

#27 Patty has been abducted by an Alien :

I made a wall decal for my own dining room wall. This is NOT Photoshopped, I SWEAR!

(if’n you don’t want to take a pic of your own wall, here’s a blank)

OH MY GOD IS THAT PAPYRUS – HK

Rate this comment: +55

Jun 24, 2010
10:22 am

#28 whimsicalisthenics :

You fill up your sentences
With a bunch of bad typos.
Like an editor’s red pen,
Helen Killer is there

You’re no good at contractions,
Not much better at spelling.
You fill up my sentences
With fuckery to share.

Rate this comment: +55

Jun 24, 2010
10:26 am

#29 istillheartbretmichaels :

YourVinylAnswer needs to find another craft to sell on etsy.

I like the new version of the John Denver quote. He was just too wholesome before . . .

Rate this comment: +11

Jun 24, 2010
10:29 am

#30 LeeLooDallas :

At least they didn’t spell it: Wall Fecal!

Rate this comment: +15

Jun 24, 2010
10:40 am

#31 pplrdum :

#30, leeloo, it would have been more appropriate though!

Rate this comment: +7

Jun 24, 2010
10:48 am

#32 sparklepire googly eyes :

You scare me senseless like a big scary rhinoceros…that’s how it goes right?

Rate this comment: +7

Jun 24, 2010
10:58 am

#33 Patty has been abducted by an Alien :

Helen, that IS Papyrus! I knew how much everyone loves it here.

*runs away*

Rate this comment: +11

Jun 24, 2010
11:00 am

#34 LenoreQ :

http://www.etsy.com/listing/30803136/in-flight-birds-vinyl-wall-decal-graphic

Don’t re-sell other’s vinyl wall art and jack the price up $17, by order of the mangement.

http://www.whatisblik.com/shop/explore/fly-re-stik

BUY HANDMADE! – HK

Rate this comment: +17

Jun 24, 2010
11:06 am

#35 HelenaHandbasket :

I went ape shit this morning when I dropped my daughter off at day camp and saw a construction paper sign indicating “Lunchs here”. She corrected it. She’s eight.

Rate this comment: +43

Jun 24, 2010
11:09 am

#36 PussDaddy :

You feel up my….never mind some things you guys are better of not having a visual to.

One would actually have to have sense for someone to feel it up, right?

Rate this comment: +5

Jun 24, 2010
11:10 am

#37 IscreamUscream :

VEDD

note: I admittedly used “papyrus”, but it was back when I was marketing an Archaeology textbook–it does have some relevant uses.

Rate this comment: +6

Jun 24, 2010
11:20 am

#38 Stretch65 :

Your decals fill my sense of propriety with indignation, but that happens often in every day life

Rate this comment: +4

Jun 24, 2010
12:00 pm

#39 Sculptor69 :

I am nearly to the point of carrying around Sharpies in several different colors so that I can correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors on signage – in matching colors. I might also need to buy some stickers saying “You’ve been corrected by the Grammar Police” to slap on the offenses.

Rate this comment: +28

Jun 24, 2010
12:03 pm

#40 Rob T Firefly :

You have to escape from every day three-dimensional space to somehow put a straight decal across a corner without changing the perspective like that.

Rate this comment: +12

Jun 24, 2010
12:06 pm

#41 BillsBayou :

The only thing better than Papyrus, is Comic Sans:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/billsbayou/EmilyDickenson.jpg

Rate this comment: +19

Jun 24, 2010
12:07 pm

#42 Wilma Fingerdoo :

The “Escape” decal (way to fuck up a perfectly nice looking bathroom) makes me think of the awful Pina Colada song. And that song makes me wanna vomit.

Rate this comment: +13

Jun 24, 2010
12:07 pm

#43 mitte :

I had to click on each of the decals: I couldn’t believe they were real. How can people be so inept? English is a second language to me and the mistakes jump right to my face!

Still I shouldn’t be suprized: they put wall decals on the walls of my college (famous quotes from famous writers) and some of them had spelling mistakes in them. They were all quotes about the importance of high culture… with mistakes in them. Classy…

Rate this comment: +15

Jun 24, 2010
12:27 pm

#44 polyesterday :

Expressingyou has horrible feedback- she misspells custom work too

Rate this comment: +10

Jun 24, 2010
12:44 pm

#45 ealaiontoir :

As if the tragedy of these weren’t bad enough, someone just bought the “feel your senses up” one today.

@patty I think I need to use your decal for my walls as well. Maybe a guest will give in and buy me paint.

Rate this comment: +6

Jun 24, 2010
12:50 pm

#46 batontwirler1 :

If the sleepy blue ocean would wake up it would be able to feel up more than one sense.

(Also, in my opinion it takes nerve to have an Etsy shop with the name Ebay in it.)

Rate this comment: +7

Jun 24, 2010
12:57 pm

#47 knittin-kitten :

Put this on your wall and you never have to worry about anyone ever trying to feel up your sense again.

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Jun 24, 2010
1:00 pm

#48 MFP :

Theodore Geisel had a degree from Dartmouth and I am pretty goddamn sure he knew the difference between “you’re” and “your.”

Rate this comment: +18

Jun 24, 2010
1:11 pm

#49 knittin-kitten :

sorry, I meant to write:

Put this on your wall and you never have to worry about anyone trying to feel up your sense ever again.

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Jun 24, 2010
1:15 pm

#50 Stretch65 :

It’s nice to see every one adding there oun too sense hear !!

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Jun 24, 2010
1:16 pm

#51 JD :

Once, twice…wait, FIVE TIMES?!

They all made me cringe, but the last one had me laughing so hard, the dog came over to see what’s up.

Rate this comment: +4

Jun 24, 2010
1:22 pm

#52 BillsBayou :

“You feel up my breasts
Like a sleepy horny husband.”

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Jun 24, 2010
1:23 pm

#53 Stretch65 :

ZOINKS!
Some oneS atually bought PLAY NICE

OH DEER – OH DEER – OH DEER ME….

Rate this comment: +3

Jun 24, 2010
1:24 pm

#54 BillsBayou :

Maybe it’s just a Mondegreen.

“She has electric boobs,
My mom has two.
You know, I read it in a magazine.”

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Jun 24, 2010
1:31 pm

#55 SequinSleuth :

maybe this is a dumb question but, what was wrong with the Mountain one?

Here you go. – HK

Rate this comment: +11

Jun 24, 2010
1:43 pm

#56 caroc :

The gator and bird look REALLY familiar. I’m pretty sure I had something in my childhood that had that gator on it.

But that can’t be true because: “Our wall Decals are all designed by artiests and are hand made products.”

Rate this comment: +9

Jun 24, 2010
1:48 pm

#57 redredred :

Now, now guys let’s not be too mean. Remember, reading are hard. So am’s writing.

Rate this comment: +6

Jun 24, 2010
1:52 pm

#58 geektastic :

I’m guessing these are being bought specifically for the fuckery.

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Jun 24, 2010
2:39 pm

#59 crankypantsknits :

That first one also seems like a bit of a rip off of the most excellent John W Golden’s By Order of Mgmt. series.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/49394497/play-nice-6-in-x10-in-print

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Jun 24, 2010
2:46 pm

#60 Bronc Drywall :

I’d really like it if someone would feel up my senses.

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Jun 24, 2010
2:54 pm

#61 Stretch65 :

Poor Bronc…

Rate this comment: +6

Jun 24, 2010
3:09 pm

#62 batontwirler1 :

Bronc – apparently only one sense can be felt up.

Rate this comment: +5

Jun 24, 2010
3:39 pm

#63 tejasmom :

I must be dumb, but how are these “hand made”? Vinyl decals don’t scream lovingly handcrafted to me. Plus they’re all copied from other sources.

Rate this comment: +4

Jun 24, 2010
4:10 pm

#64 knittin-kitten :

You have to use your hand to press the button that turns on the machine that cuts out the stencil. So there. Hands are involved. Somewhat. Did that sound too grumpy? (Sorry, I’m feeling a bit pithy today, haven’t had anyone try to feel up my sense lately.)

Rate this comment: +10

Jun 24, 2010
4:55 pm

#65 redredred :

#64 knittin-kitten: We understand. It’s hard to find someone who is good at feeling up one’s sense.

Rate this comment: +3

Jun 24, 2010
6:32 pm

Sculptor 69, have you seen this?

http://www.greattypohunt.com/blog/

Rate this comment: +2

Jun 24, 2010
6:47 pm

#67 jhconstable :

Well, if you “escape from every day life”……wouldn’t that make you “dead?”

Rate this comment: +11

Jun 24, 2010
7:19 pm

#68 MaryBeth :

I donot understand why every one is making fun of they’re art work. Your all not making cents.

Rate this comment: +6

Jun 24, 2010
7:54 pm

#69 VagtasticSPRHRO :

I nearly pee’d from the first comment. Of course, I worked in a pet shop for a while, and saw mange, so thinking of children like that reminds me of when my nephew started pulling his hair out. That’s trickateelomania right? Can I get a decal of that.? Mountain..mountain..I am a mountain.. I climb a mountain..OMG I’m A VBAC!

Rate this comment: +3

Jun 24, 2010
8:33 pm

#70 bagira :

I think most of the people in my town wouldn’t even notice the errors. Today I saw a sign on a house that said “Must Sale Make Offer.” I just have to look away.

Also, I have to say I was so glad when I realized these weren’t all from the same seller.

Rate this comment: +2

Jun 24, 2010
9:12 pm

#71 SueR :

Damn! I really wanted to get the feel up my senses decal for my daughter. After this, the seller will probably fix the mistakes and it just won’t be the same.

Rate this comment: +1

Jun 24, 2010
9:22 pm

#72 Vile & Evil Debbie Downer :

ISUS, – cool! I was funny without even being HERE!

I still don’t see the appeal of giant inane words stuck to a wall. Though some tasteful purple splatters would accent that tub area nicely.

Rate this comment: +3

Jun 25, 2010
7:57 am

#73 Saki :

I’m a little late to the party but #39: My friends and I formed the Grammar Police at the college I attend. We all carry red pens, small notebooks and tape so we can issue citations and leave them on signs.

These decals make me weep.

Rate this comment: +4

Jun 26, 2010
8:57 am

#74 Buzzkill To Teenagers :

I am so glad my daughter’s summer reading assignment is “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”

Rate this comment: +1