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“It’s all Greek to me” Sunday

Mar 2nd, 2008
by Dan.

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:

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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In July of this year I shall be walking 78 miles in 6 days in aid of the Joseph Salmon Trust, a charity founded by my close friends in memorial to their son Joseph who died aged 3 in April of 2005. Please look here for further details and consider sponsoring me. Thank you.

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10 Comments on ““It’s all Greek to me” Sunday”

  1. #1 Greg
    on Mar 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    Repo Man

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  2. #2 Ed (zoesdad)
    on Mar 2nd, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    I’ve got nothing! So I’m going with—–

    8 Heads in a Duffle Bag

    Ed (zoesdad)’s last blog post..Story Time with Zane

    Reply

  3. #3 Jeff
    on Mar 3rd, 2008 at 1:57 am

    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

    Reply

  4. #4 Phil
    on Mar 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 am

    Yup. Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. Classic 80’s movie!

    Reply

  5. #5 Avitable
    on Mar 3rd, 2008 at 4:22 am

    I was thinking either Repo Man or 8 Heads, and they were both already guessed. Damn.

    Avitable’s last blog post..Lazy Sunday XXXIX

    Reply

  6. #6 Oli
    on Mar 3rd, 2008 at 9:50 am

    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.

    Reply

  7. #7 Rol
    on Mar 3rd, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    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

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  8. #8 Oli
    on Mar 3rd, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    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…

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  9. #9 Greg
    on Mar 3rd, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    Oli, have you seen “The Stepford Wives”? That film was chock full of death energy.

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  10. #10 Dan
    on Mar 3rd, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    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.

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