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mack the knife



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:36 am    Post subject: Best mistranslation EVER Reply with quote

So I'm dropping the kids off at the pool the other night and the wife says "Oh, that movie's on..." and I'm all "What movie?" and she comes at me with this zinger:

"It's that 'Texas Electronic Saw Killer'" movie.

I had to sit on the toilet for a whole other hour just so I wouldn't sh*t myself laughing.
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's pretty good. I dated a girl briefly who told me her favourite movie was "Vampires with Interviews."
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dmbfan



Joined: 09 Mar 2006

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
"Vampires with Interviews."





Laughing
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spliff



Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Must be funny in the local sense, ya know, like a rainstorm except, the suns out over here... Very Happy
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Hanson



Joined: 20 Oct 2004

PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't forget "Bend Over Brothers" - Band of Brothers.

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BigBuds



Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Location: Changwon

PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hanson wrote:
Don't forget "Bend Over Brothers" - Band of Brothers.

Laughing


"Bend Over Brothers", wasn't that the movie about the Normandy invasion from the navys point of view Laughing .
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Grimalkin



Joined: 22 May 2005

PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I kinda like my students talking about 'Silence of the Sheep'!
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riverboy



Joined: 03 Jun 2003
Location: Incheon

PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Before my wife and I got married, we went to Canada and were about to go for a swim when she tole me that she could only swim "DOGGIE STYLE!"
I still laugh everytime I think of it.
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EFLtrainer



Joined: 04 May 2005

PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dang... strong swimmer, that one!

Twisted Evil

My current favorite is the refrigelater. It just makes so much sense!

Very Happy Very Happy
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wylies99



Joined: 13 May 2006
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was told by a Korean teacher ( a metal head) that George Thorogood's song" Bad to the bone" was somehow translated as "I've got bad bones"
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Brady



Joined: 25 Jul 2006
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"The Grapes of Wrath," according to one of the Korean teachers, is "Rage of Grapes."
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Privateer



Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brady wrote:
"The Grapes of Wrath," according to one of the Korean teachers, is "Rage of Grapes."


Written by Ernest Haemorrhoid
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postfundie



Joined: 28 May 2004

PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I kept joking about calling the 'pad' a diaper...My girlfriend heard it and thought that we used it... another day she said 'I've got to go to GS 25 to buy myself a diaper' ...I laughed hard...
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mack the knife



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like "Vampires with Interviews". It's like "Ooooh, gross! That vampire has interviews all over his lips and NO WAY I'm kissing him!"
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flakfizer



Joined: 12 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not a mistranslation but a misunderstanding: One of my students had to write about his weekend and he wrote that he watched a movie called, "Bruce All My Tea."
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