Here’s how it works. I’ve taken 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. Your task is to try [...] Read more »
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Advent Colander – Dec 8th
I’m a little bit bored with the whole open/close door thing. Not only is it limiting me to having square photos but it’s also making the blog visually quite samey.
However I’m still going to continue with my photographic advent colander I’m afraid. I’m enjoying the creative push of having to come up with [...] Read more »
World War III, the final battle. Part 2
Well, the USA has quite a task ahead of them. Morticia was able to polish off all the answers to the UK’s questions yesterday. She says this is down to being forced to watch crap TV by her mother, but this is a woman who has professed a love for the Archers so [...] Read more »
World War III, the final battle. Part 1
This is going to be the last time I run this particular quiz. And with the score at one all it looks like this one is going to be the decider. It’s the contest of the century folks, and you saw it here first.
Ok, so just in case you didn’t catch this last [...] Read more »
World War III. The second battle, part 2
It’s the USA’s turn now. Lets see if you can redeem yourself after last time’s thrashing.
Here are the rules one more time:
I will post a set of questions each weekend. Saturdays questions will be for British people, and Sundays for the Americans. If you are neither of these nationalities then just pick a side.
Saturdays [...] Read more »
World War III. The second battle, part 1
Last time I did this the Brit’s throughly thrashed the Yanks, getting all the questions correct after 10 hours 14 minutes. The US team didn’t even manage to pass the finish line. Although to be fair they did get 8 of the 9 questions right – stumbling only on number 2 (Spin City). [...] Read more »
World War III. The first battle, part 1
The USA and the UK have a unique relationship. We speak the same language, eat the same foods, and fight the same wars. We are, our politicians tell us, allies and friends.
It hasn’t always been that way however. In 1773 America got upset because the UK failed to RSVP to their tea [...] Read more »
Mmmmm… Tunes
As promised last week, here is another “guess the theme tune” quiz. OK so it’s a day later than I said it would be, but I’m a busy man. Anyway it’s probably still Saturday somewhere in the world.
It’s a little bit harder this time round, especially for the chronically foreign who I am pretty sure [...]
Track 1: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (515) Track 2: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (589) Track 3: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (582) Track 4: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (709) Track 5: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (499)“It’s all Greek to me” Sunday finale
As I mentioned last week, this will be the last “It’s all Greek to me” Sunday for a while. And as such I thought I would go out with a bang.
This is the big one, a “It’s all Greek to me” Sunday to beat all “It’s all Greek to me” Sunday’s. Instead of [...] Read more »
“It’s all Greek to me” Sunday
Here’s how it works. I’ve take a short film synopsis 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 [...] Read more »
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