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Reblog with etymological technicalityIRONIC STATEMENT
Reblog pointing out how that is a coincidence and not really irony.
Reblog to correct splleing errro in etymological technicality clarification.
Reblog with etymological technicalityIRONIC STATEMENT
Reblog pointing out how that is a coincidence and not really irony.
Reblog to correct splleing errro in etymological technicality clarification.
UK creation: The board game ‘Cluedo’
Name when released in the US: ‘Clue’
Net change: Removal of “do”
UK creation: Where’s Wally?
Name when released in the US: Where’s Waldo?
Net change: Replacement of “-ly” with “-do”
Notes:
The name ‘Cluedo’ is a play on the name of another British board game, ‘Ludo’, a game which is a) pretty much unknown outside Great Britain and b) more dull than someone who pretends to like Arvo Part.
When the US-made cartoon series of Where’s Waldo? was released in the UK, all references to Waldo were replaced with Wally. Wally’s nemesis Odlaw (“Waldo” backwards), who was created for the cartoon, has the same name in the British version. The ‘backwards name’ reference is therefore lost to most English kids.
It is unclear as to why the character was not renamed “Yllaw” for the British version. Possible reasons include a) the fact that it’s impossible to pronounce and b) the fact that it looks Welsh and the cartoon’s makers were scared of a backlash from the lucrative Welsh youth market.
There is speculation that the removal of the ‘do’ from ‘Cluedo’ necessitated the addition of a ‘do’ to another UK to US import in order to retain good relations between the two countries. Negotiations between the nations lasted for years, until a compromise was reached and Wally became Waldo. However, there is a growing movement in the UK that is campaigning to have the ‘Ly’ that was taken from Wally added to something else crossing the Atlantic. One solution to this was to rename the band Coldplay, “Coldplayly” in the US, but Chris Martin vetoed the proposal. Discussions are ongoing.
Welsh jokes == automatic reblog.
Your dog destroys the environment faster than my Land Cruiser does. Your argument is invalid.
Dude, I hope you were just being snarky here… this chart is moronic. A dog is a living, breathing creature that has a certain rightful claim to the resources it consumes; the SUV is an over-priced machine with absolutely no intrinsically redeeming value outside of stroking the ego of the chump that pays the loan.
This chart fails to mention that, whether a dog happens to be a pet or not, it will still exist in the world, and that owning them as pets actually controls their population. There would be much more damage done if every pet dog had instead grown up feral. SUVs don’t reproduce.
I also find it revealing that the chart stops with a toyota land cruiser, as if it was the most guzzeling of SUVs. Where’s the F150 and the Hummer? This from a magazine that once proclaimed “Darwin was Wrong”.
I did some reading on this story last week. It annoyed the hell out of me.
I’m sure there’s more faults to find, but I think I’ve made my point.
“STEEL OF THE WEEK”? Seriously, Gamestation of Cwmbrân? So what is it then, exactly? 3m I-beams of medium carbon stainless? That’s kinda a new market for you, branching out from preowned console games with scratched discs and torn manuals, eh?
(This made me so cross I have stopped in the middle of the shopping centre to write it live. You’re welcome. Well, either that, or I’m desperately low on tumblr material.)
Edit — I also just noticed — “NINTEND”. D’oh!
Android 2.0 features free, in-built, turn-by-turn GPS, a car-dock UI, and Google Map directions.
(Love this infographic.)
This is perfection.
Too much awesome.
Take a beloved film (Star Wars, in this case). Chop it up into 15 second fragments. Using the Internet, collect volunteers and assign each one a fragment. The volunteers have to remake the fragment in any style they choose — faithful, silly, drawn animation, stop-motion, goofy, weird — and no effort is made at all to harmonise or synchronise the different actors, styles, and continuity. Re-edit the whole lot back into an insane mismatch of film.
This is the trailer. It looks awesome. The in-joke rate is sky-high.
“Oh, I get it. I’m a Greyhound, so you dressed me like a Greyhound. How wonderfully clever!… So where’s your douchebag costume?”
AWWWWWWW! (As in “How cute!”), followed by Awwwwwww… (as in “Poor hound.”)
A-HA-HA-HA!
Danielle is right, this looks so much like one of my dogs it’s downright freaky.