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.
So without further ado, here we go:
exercitii sala
auto second hand
computer parts
display boards
leather sofa
pc games
kempo karate
greek myth
Offbeat imagination for a unemployed punk that falls in with a car payment of recuperation. Finds the marginal life of individuals day-off that [title] unexpectedly, until takes a car with trunkful death of energy. Shortly a governmental remuneration has each one in the state in the trace of car with the strange secret. The directorial beginning of [director] is a unanticipated mix of drama, Sci-FI and social satire (1984)
Last week’s glorious winner was Catherine from Farmgirl at Large. Over on her blog this week she has some extremely cool photo’s of pavement art. She also celebrates her two hundredth blog post by talking about her love of Jane Austin (well at least it’s not the bloody Brontë family).
Catherine also appears to end all her posts with a quote from King of the Hill. Marvolous stuff.
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Sure, the one I finally know, and Greg beats me to it. Is there a way to delete his comment?
Jeff’s last blog post..m-m-m-MY Sharona
Yup. Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. Classic 80′s movie!
I was thinking either Repo Man or 8 Heads, and they were both already guessed. Damn.
Avitable’s last blog post..Lazy Sunday XXXIX
Hmm, yesterday’s pre-emptive guess of Gremlins 3 was obviously wrong.
But by “Gremlins 3″, I really meant “Repo Man”. I just spelled it wrongly.
For a while, I thought it might be Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Then I changed my mind.
Rol’s last blog post..Free Music March
I thought it might be Ferris Bueller too. But as far as I recall, there hasn’t been a trunkful of death energy in any of Matthew Broderick’s films…
Oli, have you seen “The Stepford Wives”? That film was chock full of death energy.
Greg – The winner
Ed – I haven’t even heard of that. I think you’re making it up.
Jeff – Depends on your attitude to bribery
Phil – I haven’t seen it in ages, it’s on next Sunday so I might try to catch it.
Avitable – In the “8 heads” conspiracy with Ed eh?
Oli – Damn that dyslexia.
Rol – i can see where you are coming from, but… no.
Oli – Setup
Greg – and punchline.