Big Bad Mushrooms

15 Responses to Big Bad Mushrooms

1. jordanwb on August 28th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

   In the text below it says that the frozen mushrooms were in a bag in a plane (hence the “flied mushrooms”), the mushrooms defrosted and caused an allergic reaction in a passenger. Not really a fail just a bad choice of words.

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2. Megan on August 28th, 2008 at 6:09 pm

   It is a strange choice of words, but if you read the article the headline makes sense. (But I guess the strange headline DOES draw in the reader, because you’re like “what?!?” and want to read the article.)

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3. L on August 28th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

   What are you people on? “Flied mushrooms” makes no sense at all. “Flying mushrooms”, yes. “Fried mushrooms”, yes. “Flied mushrooms”… FAIL!

   Unless, of course, they were infested with flies.

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4. Khris on August 28th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

   I still think it has something to do with Mario

   He ate one, grew huge, then brought the plane down

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5. mindy on August 28th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

   lolz@marioreference.
   (:

   This just reminds me of asian people.
   Especially at some buffet my grandparents went to one time. They kept asking if they wanted “flied lice” instead of fried rice.
   It was amazing. xD

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6. Aaron T. on August 28th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

   Wouldn’t it be “Flown mushrooms”?

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7. feitclub on August 28th, 2008 at 10:57 pm

   I initially assumed it was an Asian airline and the editors were trying to make some kind of terribly racist pun with fried/flied. How else could you possibly use “flied” as a descriptor? Jesus, I’m not sure I’ve heard that word before in any context.

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   • anonymooseamber on August 28th, 2008 at 11:22 pm

     I don’t think I’ve heard ‘flied’ used,either.However I’m going to do my best to use it as slang for something…..

     “My jeans are flied up”

     “They’re button flied”

     Aww crap.That’s all I got.

     So much for the new slang term:(

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     • zippikat on August 29th, 2008 at 2:15 am

       Can’t think of a modifier usage, but it does get used as a verb in baseball — “The batter flied out to center field.”
       Even that takes some getting used to, though.

       Still, maybe that means there’s hope for the slang idea…

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8. Ian Symes on August 29th, 2008 at 2:21 am

   This isn’t a fail! It’s a pun! Completely intentional.

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   • Matt on August 29th, 2008 at 10:06 am

     Flied is not a word.

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     • Bill on August 29th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

       True, but it is punny.

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9. Fail Funnies on August 31st, 2008 at 6:50 pm

   A FAIL of epic proportions.

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10. Count Scary on September 1st, 2008 at 10:03 am

    according to the OED, “flied” is a weak past tense spelling of fly, so it is in fact, a very clever headline and not a failure of language.

    This is an Englishfailblog FAIL of epic proportions.

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11. GaietyGirl on September 4th, 2008 at 7:09 am

    The past tense of fly is flew, not flied.

    I’m guessing they were trying to be funny, but fail both with their use of English and un-pc joke.

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