Lost in Translation

[Hiney]

Guess who has their name at the bottom of this match report in The Observer today:

"Goalkeeper Michel Kuipers was brilliant, making some good saves as they applied pressure. Darren Currie scored a goal-of-the-season contender, straight in from a corner. Cadamarteri threatened for them, starting quietly but getting better as the game went on, like United themselves"

 

[Scarface]

 

[Wozza]

Roz does it most weeks.

 

[sams dad]

"Darren Currie scored a goal-of-the-season contender, straight in from a corner."
It might be a goal of the season contender,but it certainly wasn't direct from a corner.Was the reporter at the game?

 

[Hiney]

Roz does it most weeks.

Indeed.

The resident sub-editor must have been pissed!!!

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

 

[Lady Bracknell]

Lost in translation indeed! I've only just got a copy of the paper meself and was certainly surprised at the version of yesterday's "punditry" that appeared.

I suspect there was a deal of "Rearrange these commonly used words and sayings into something halfway resembling the report of a football match". Since I certainly did mention the following:

Currie - the maestro of the corner kick
Currie - superb goal from Knight's cross
United - came out stronger
Half time - after it
Game - scrappy
United equaliser - was robbed by Referee who turned up without rule book.
Free play - what, when ref had been issued brand new whistle?
Kuipers - give that man a medal.
Gin - make mine a large one
Er - that's it.

 

[The Large One]

Gin - make mine a large one
Er - that's it.

Well, here I am.

 

[Lady Bracknell]

How very punctilious sir.
But where's the gin?

 

[The Large One]

London.

 

[Long Saulty Seagull]

What an excellent movie.

Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson were superb, and I recognised most of the locations funnily enough.

 

[Hungry Joe.]

What an excellent movie.

Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson were superb, and I recognised most of the locations funnily enough.

My mate lives and works in Japan and stayed at the Hotel they filmed. Small world eh? I thought it was very good. Watched 'Girl With A Pearl Earring' last night. Thought Scarlett would have looked better with a pearl necklace but there you go.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

It was a visually stunning film. But what was the plot again ?

 

[CHAPPERS]

It was a visually stunning film. But what was the plot again ?

Two people feeling very alone in a foreign land, neither knows why they are really there fall in a kind of fake love that they know in 'real life' would never work.

 

[Hungry Joe.]

It was a visually stunning film. But what was the plot again ?

Slow-paced repressed love examinations in both cases I would say.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Two people feeling very alone in a foreign land, neither knows why they are really there fall in a kind of fake love that they know in 'real life' would never work.

Oh yes, that was it. Had me gripped.

 

[Eggmundo]

What an excellent movie.

Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson were superb, and I recognised most of the locations funnily enough.

Absolute cack! Really looking forward to watching it and spent the entire film waiting for something to happen...
Dissapointed.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I thought it was a really good film, Bill Murray ahd Johansson were quality. Granted there was little in the way of plot but it was a decent enough story, if you like that kind of thing.

 

[Hungry Joe.]

Absolute cack! Really looking forward to watching it and spent the entire film waiting for something to happen...
Dissapointed.

You'll love 'Girl With A Pearl Earring' then

 

[Eggmundo]

Dodgeball...now that's a good film