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.
This weeks review is a pretty easy one really and has been lifted from one of those “what’s on TV” web pages.
Trying it assembles the money for a game high stake, the enchanting card sharp [character] ([actor]) is mixed with one double-transaction adventuress ([actor]). He’s took also it supports with the vile [character] ([actor]) and the old leathal buddy [actor] of arms [actor] it is presented also. [actor], that played the [character] observation in the initial line of TV of decade ‘50, it is flown as [actor]. A pleasant slice of westerner hokum.
Last week’s winner was Pandora Caitiff, who is one of my legion of transvestite readers. Well, ok there are only two of them but I still bet that’s more than you get. Going for the niche markets, that’s me.
This week Pandora has been musing on the recent revelation that two of the characters from the video game Final Fight have been outed as pre-op transsexuals. They were no doubt trying to win enough prize money to pay for their highly expensive pixel removal operations.
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on Feb 24th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Yay! I’m a niche market!
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on Feb 24th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Wild Wild West is probably the worst guess that will be posted here..
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on Feb 24th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
My guess is Maverick (with Mel Gibson, Jody Foster, and James Garner).
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on Feb 24th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Its the reference to the 50s that’s the clincher.
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on Feb 25th, 2008 at 1:30 am
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on Feb 25th, 2008 at 4:07 am
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on Feb 25th, 2008 at 10:55 am
The “lethal buddy arms” gave it away.
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on Feb 25th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
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on Feb 25th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Jeff’s last blog post..It really is the best of both worlds
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on Feb 25th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Arjan – Wiki wiki wiki wild wild wrong.
Catherine – Hurrah! The winner!
Jason – It takes a certain sort of brain I’m guessing. I’m not sure how I’d do if I weren’t setting the questions.
Avitable – Yep, but too slow bozo.
Oli – Yep, but too slow yoyo
Joe – It’s Maverick!
Jeff – Card sharks do tend to get a little soggy when wet.
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