Amusing Items

[EEPhil]

Sydney reopens beaches after tar ball mystery

No mystery. Surely just someone doing a Unix/Linux backup.

 

[EEPhil]

Nearly fell off the chair with shock (laughter really) watching "Brian and Maggie" on Channel 4.
In it there was a recreation of part of a "Weekend World" where Brian Walden (Steve Coogan) was about to interview Thatcher (Harriet Walter).
Coogan (as Walden) hands over to ITN for the news headlines and the real clip is played, Gordon Honeycombe reading the news.
Honeycombe refers to a Middle East peace talks and a Mr Dayan and a Mr F**kMe - well that's what it sounded like to me - and to Coogan as he mouths "F me" to Walter. I wonder if the real Walden did that to Thatcher or whether this was "poetic licence".
After replaying with subtitles on it turns out that it was Mr Fahmi, but Honeycombe's pronunciation made it sound like F Me.
How that was allowed at around midday on a Sunday I don't know.

 

[Black Hole]

Not meant to spoil a laugh, but for the purpose of discussion...

Honeycombe's pronunciation made it sound like F Me.

Perhaps that's how

Fahmi

should be pronounced (in the native tongue).

Given the era, that expression would not have been common – and definitely not on telly.

 

[EEPhil]

Perhaps that's how [Fahmi] should be pronounced (in the native tongue).

I'm sure it should be - plenty of phlegm and/or a glottal stop. It was the shock of hearing a newscaster of Gordon Honeycombe's standing appearing to swear.

 

[gomezz]

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[EEPhil]

NCIS - Jurisdiction (S7E18)

Woman: Oh my God, I can't believe he's dead.
SA McGee: What was your relationship with the deceased?
Woman: You mean he's deceased too?

Well it made me laugh. Somehow think I've heard a similar exchange in other dramas.

 

[Black Hole]

Woman: Oh my God, I can't believe he's dead.
SA McGee: What was your relationship with the deceased?
Woman: You mean he's deceased too?

You're right, that is funny. I take it NCIS isn't supposed to be tongue-in-cheek?

 

[EEPhil]

You're right, that is funny. I take it NCIS isn't supposed to be tongue-in-cheek?

It does have mildly amusing scripts. The most obvious being an early episode. The medical examiner Donald "Ducky" Mallard was played by David McCallum.

Kate: Gibbs, what did Ducky look like when he was younger?
Gibbs: Ilya Kuryakin.

 

[Black Hole]

Diamond League Colemanballs: "He's the only Pole in the [pole vault] competition"

 

[EEPhil]

Diamond League Colemanballs: "He's the only Pole in the [pole vault] competition"

If the competitor is from Poland and the competition is the pole vault isn't this a statement of fact not a Colemanballs?

 

[Black Hole]

Well, there were quite a few poles in the competition.

 

[EEPhil]

Obviously, but it was a pole vault not a Pole vault.
While I might dispute that the quote is a Colemanball, it was an unfortunate choice of words. If the commentator had any sense ( ) perhaps "He's the only Polish competitor in the competition" might have been better. I suppose it might have been said on purpose.

 

[Black Hole]

You can't hear capitalisation!

Being in Poland, the pole vault could have been and entirely different discipline.

 

[EEPhil]

So many possibilities! An activity in Stalag Luft III?

Edit: Realised after posting that might require explanation. In the film The Wooden Horse, set in Stalag Luft III, the escape using a vaulting horse apparently came from seeing other POWs playing leap frog. No idea whether any were Polish, or even if there were Polish POWs in SL III.* What I was trying to equate was Pole vault with leap frog over a Polish POW. Would have been easier to delete the reference, but someone may have seen the reference and be in the process of replying. *Tried to look it up but got side-tracked with Wikipedia and the annual begging campaign!