Saturday, 26 September 2020

Lost In Translation: Chinese movie titles (part 2)

A subject I've featured before on the Charles Fudgemuffin blog is the fact that when English movies are translated into Chinese, their original titles sometimes become lost in translation.

"Who you gonna call?"
"Super Power Dare Die Team!"
Here's another batch of movies with unusual Chinese titles...

1) Ghostbusters


When Ghostbusters was released in China, it was renamed rather unusually as, 'Super Power Dare Die Team'.

Imagine if Ghostbusters had been called 'Super Power Dare Die Team' in English. The theme tune just wouldn't have quite the same ring to it!

"Who you gonna call?"
"Super Power Dare Die Team!"

Ghostbusters > Super Power Dare Die Team


Saturday, 19 September 2020

Karl Pilkington quotes

The Charles Fudgemuffin blog has previously paid tribute to geniuses such as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking with a collection of their quotes. So continuing on that theme, here's a collection of quotes featuring the wisdom of  ... Karl Pilkington!

"I Spy with my little eye,
something beginning with N."
1) "Imagine being a stick insect, walking about. You'd be forever going, "Is that what's-his-name?"



2) "We've invented most of the stuff that we need and now we're just messing about."



3) Talking to a tribal chief in Vanuatu…

"He told me they speak the language of Ninde. He said everything begins with the letter ‘n’. A palm tree he pointed to was called a nimdimdip. We saw naho, which is a fruit, and he pointed out a leaf that was called nooholee. I said that playing 'I Spy' here would be tough as you’d be guessing all day. He agreed."

Saturday, 12 September 2020

Wikipedia vandalism (Part 3: Football special!)

It's become something of a tradition on the Charles Fudgemuffin blog to celebrate each new season of the Premier League with a football related blog post.

This week is no exception as I take a football themed look at another subject which has graced the blog from time to time ... wikipedia vandalism.

1) Tottenham Hotspur (Bottling Company)


Tottenham have come close to the Premier League title in recent years, but they always seem to bottle it right at the end, leading someone to make the following edit to the wikipedia entry for 'List of Bottling companies'...

Tottenham Hotspur: Famous bottlers.

Saturday, 5 September 2020

Half a million page views!

Last week the Charles Fudgemuffin blog hit an amazing milestone! I've had half a million page views! Wow! And it only took me eight years!

So what better way to celebrate than with one of my favourite subjects to feature on the blog ... a higher or lower quiz!

Farts.
It seems appropriate to stick with the theme of half a million, so for each of the questions see if you can guess if the answer is higher or lower than half a million.

1) Farts


Let's start things off with a serious subject. Farts! How many people in the world fart every second? Is it more than half a million or less than half a million?

Higher or lower?