It’s been over a year since I retired my regular feature It’s all Greek to me Sunday so I thought it was about time I whipped it out again and slapped it back down on the table.
Here’s how it works. I’ve taken a short film synopsis from the listings page of a TV guide and fed it into Bable Fish, an online translating service. I then translated the synopsis from English into Greek, and then from Greek back into English. The resulting gobbledygook is posted below. Your task is to try and identify what movie the passage refers to.
Here goes:
With base [author] short history [title], [title] it says the history [character], a writer that looks at behind in his own days when they went to their adventure they find this and three narrow friends the body of child their age that it had it goes is absent and had considered dead. Are the stakes when they a lot watch the bad children in the city – and become does a does race in order to see who’ll it is in position it recovers the body first.
So first to identify the correct movie here in the comments wins the respect and admiration of their peers.
The last winner of the contest all the way back in April 2008 was the lovely Tracy from Whim. Unfortunately Tracy abandoned blogging shortly after her win. Some may claim that it was the shame of being exposed as a reader of All That Comes with it that did it, but I deny that rumor. Instead I think it’s only necessary to look just a few posts down her blog to see what was the real culprit: her abject disappointment at the crapness of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
I feel your pain sister, I feel your pain.
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Could it be Stand by Me? by Stephen King
.-= Carla´s last blog ..Insurance whoas =-.
@Carla, yep. Well done. In almost record time too.
Carla is on the money for moi.
.-= SingleParentDad´s last blog ..Bringing Down the House, or Beer Garden =-.
@SingleParentDad, oooo, hark at him with his french!
Stand by me is my bet as well.
.-= slugs on the refrigerator´s last blog ..Hustle and Bustle =-.
yep, it has to be Stand By Me.
Like they said! Here I thought I’d be first hehe
@Catherine, come back next week and have another bash (I’ll give you a clue – it’s unlikely to be Stand By Me)
@Dan,
I thought I’d been spending a little too much time on the internet lately, when clearly the opposite is true!
Next week, I shall pounce like a tiger.
I didn’t have a clue, but Carla is dead right.
I still can’t look at a leech.
.-= Xbox4NappyRash´s last blog ..Mr (or Ms) Fitz of science =-.
@Xbox4NappyRash, I’ve heard the leeches say some pretty negative things about you as well. Although the ducks still love you.
Wait…..I think it is Stand by Me. Just a hunch here.
.-= James (SeattleDad)´s last blog ..With Sprinkles on Top =-.
Damn. I knew this one, too. It was an easy one.
.-= Avitable´s last blog ..Why you should buy Miss Britt a drink at #BlogHer =-.
Dang it! I was going to say Stand By Me! How am I so far behind everyone else? I suppose this wasn’t too hard. “Are the stakes when they a lot watch the bad children in the city” really gave it away.
.-= Erin´s last blog ..Desperation =-.
@Erin, you snooze you lose Erin, you snooze you lose
I have nothing of value to add to this discussion other than to mention that I’ve never seen Stand By Me. Not once. Not never. Any good then?
.-= Kevin Spencer´s last blog ..Shortest Possible Reviews I Can Muster =-.
@Kevin Spencer, It’s a fantastic film. fantastic. I suspect it’s best watched in your late teens, but it still stands up today.
I’m glad you’re bringing this segment back. I could rarely figure any of them out, but I always thought it was a clever idea.
.-= Holmes´s last blog ..H Disorder =-.
@Holmes, I’m preparing this weeks one as i type (well sort of). i liked it too I just worried it was going stale.