Listen, I don’t care if you don’t like this new regular feature, we are going to keep doing it and keep doing it until you DO like it. OK? It’s a bit like broccoli, but without the foilc acid.
Like last time I’ve take 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 and your task is to try and identify what movie the passage refers to.
Today’s review is from Jan 12-18th edition of TV Choice, and is a particularly easy one I think.
Touching, resourceful drama. The [actor] plays tortured time superior employee FedEx which plane is shattered in the Pacific Ocean. The He’s washed on a island deserted and have only his spirits and certain parcels FedEx in order to him they keep live. It’s a brilliant and moved film with the [actor] that surpasses as soul that is submitted in much more by one dramatic natural transformation. (2000, US)
Last week’s winner was Carla from Blah Blah Blog-o-licious, and what a week she has had. Not only did she become reigning world champion of “It’s all Greek to me” Sunday, but she also persuaded her husband to pose on her blog wearing a tiara. If success can do that for Carla, just think what it could do for you!
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on Jan 13th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
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on Jan 13th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Apart from the Pacific Ocean bit, but that could be the name of a pub in Brighton couldn’t it ?
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on Jan 13th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Alas Gary, while your theory is a damn fine one Phil was right with Castaway.
I’ll vary the publishing times in the future in order to be fair to the various different time zones.
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on Jan 13th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
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on Jan 13th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
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on Jan 13th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
but you know… I wouldn’t have complained if I had gotten here first and been able to shout
HAHA Cast Away SUCKERS…
(except that it is TWO words not one… so… yeah. a moment of tiny pitiful glory where I get all accurate)
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on Jan 13th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
but having had a little read through these posts, I realise I’m maybe more upset at the Top Cat/Bilko DVD situation.
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on Jan 14th, 2008 at 9:22 am
It’s Cast Away, starring Tom Hanks, with Wilson the volleyball.
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on Jan 15th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
That’s all.
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on Jan 15th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Try Dutch and French and then Greek and see what comes out; if it’s sensible at all, I be very surprised.
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