If you don’t know by now, here’s how it works. 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 a moldy old copy of Heat that I dug out of the office magazine pile.
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The winner last time was Lise. Ordinarily I’d do a round up of whatever the winner was talking about on their blog this week. Unfortunately although I know Lise has a site I’ve forgotten what it is. Therefore I shall be using a special celebrity stand in instead.
This week Lise has been informing us all what not to say to our boss. It all sounds like pretty good advice to me, but I think she missed out “Is that a wig?”. If only I knew then what I know now.
She’s also been answering that age old conundrum of whether you should tip bad service. I got a couple of tips for you Lise: Don’t eat yellow snow, and never tie your shoelace in a revolving door. Ah the old ones are the best ones.
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on Feb 10th, 2008 at 12:39 am
I know what it is, but I feel I have an unfair advantage as I am one of the few readers who are up in the middle of the night.
Sam’s last blog post..A Twofold Crisis
on Feb 10th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Show me the money–All Dogs Go to Heaven!
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on Feb 10th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Spiderman 3?
Whit’s last blog post..Have You Seen the Sign?
on Feb 10th, 2008 at 9:27 am
You see I feel all smug as I click over from Bloglines… and then Whit gets there before me! Yep, Spiderman 3.
Bec’s last blog post..Feet, Back, Shoulders and Calves
on Feb 10th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Sam - I get 80% of my comments in the middle of the night. Got to love those time zones.
Ed - Err. No.
Whit - Hurrah! We have a winner. I’m guessing the “web throwing” gave it away.
Bec - A likely story.
on Feb 10th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Dang. I’m an idiot. My thoughts weren’t anywhere near Spiderman 3. Congrats Whit!
on Feb 11th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Is it Spiderman 3?
Perhaps I should check Dan’s blog while I’m at home, as well as while I’m at work…
on Feb 11th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Clearly it’s Return of the Jedi.
Avitable’s last blog post..Fryday
on Feb 11th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Doh! Beaten to the punch. Indeed, web throwing completely gave it away.
Holmes’s last blog post..Just a string tied around my finger
on Feb 11th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
I’m late. That’ll teach me to read on Monday instead of Sunday. I was busy.
on Feb 11th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Momo Fali - It was a tougher one this week. But I’m planning on making next week’s near impossible.
Oli - It is my opinion that everyone should be checking my blog 24 hours a day.
Avitable - I’m rather partial to Ewoks myself
Holmes - I had to make it simple so as to give whit a chance (I know that is in direct conflict to what I said to Momo Fali, but it’s my blog damnit and I can be as inconsistent as I want)
Jason - Moving house is no excuse for not reading my blog. I am disappointed in you.
on Feb 11th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
For some reason it made me think of Saturday Night Fever, but then if it doesn’t feature werewolves or an autopsy or two I probably won’t know what it is anyway ;-)
on Feb 11th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Morticia - That could have been the words “saturday, night and fever” in close proximity. I was hoping that would throw a few more people off the scent but unfortunately not.
on Feb 12th, 2008 at 1:03 am
I could only hear the ‘Saturday Nite Fever’ reference so I was not expecting ‘Spiderman’! And btw, I am getting older. More so on Friday….
The Chick’s last blog post..Who Says Dentists Aren’t Funny?
on Feb 12th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Actually, that’s a pretty fair review, even in mangled gobbledygook.
Rol’s last blog post..Happy going nowhere, in my rattling car
on Mar 6th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
I got Spiderman three too. Fab idea Dan. Very silly and fun. How’s the fund raising going?
Jo Beaufoix’s last blog post..How to get yourself a partner, according to a 7 year old.