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Nobody toasts a dwarf!

This link posted by Zel had my blog persona rolling on the floor with laughter. Meanwhile, I was patiently sitting at my desk waiting for him to shut up and let me post this entry.

Where was I? Oh yes. The link: Engrish The Two Towers Captions.



This is an actual subtitle on a pirate copy of The Two Towers.

Other notable lines include:

“I bring word from Elfron the River of Death”

“Gandolf foogray that was my name”

“Aragon, son of Haratron and Borodel of Gondor”

“my lord Gandlof foorgray is coming”

“no I have to do Sam”

…and the classic…

“Bring your pussy face to my ass”.

Oh my.

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The big costume party

It’s not even February 14 yet but the bloggers are all full-o-love. There’s a lot going around right now about blog crushes. And maybe not coincidentally, the words “I don’t even know you” seem to be appearing quite frequently too. But does that really matter?

When we create a blog, it becomes our online persona. All the world’s a web browser, Shakespeare wrote, and all the men and women merely bloggers. Well I’m sure he would have said that if they had blogs back then.

When we post a blog entry, we can’t help but write as our blog persona. It’s all role-playing. Imagine a great big costume party, in which several people in superhero masks and tights declare their affections for the person in the lederhosen. Meanwhile, several others in hamster outfits attack a team of Clark Gable impersonators, who are rescued by a pair of Zorros and a gorilla. Watching the mayhem are a sixpack of Judy Garlands (of which only one is actually a woman), an alien, and a gaucho. There’s also a Starfleet captain in an ill-fitting polyester uniform, but he’s sitting by himself in the corner, talking to the plant.

I lost the point in that somewhere. If anyone finds it, please let me know.

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SFU worries about student’s rights

More about the student who recieved an F on a paper for allegedly cheating: SFU paper to be re-marked, University says another instructor will be assigned if professor declines to re-grade.

Simon Fraser University’s vice-president of academics, John Waterhouse, says that someone else will evaluate the student’s paper if Professor Sampson doesn’t re-grade it herself. Westinghouse said, “At this stage we have to worry about the student’s rights in this process.”

I’m not clear on this. Is he referring to the student’s right to submit somone else’s work as her own? And if the paper gets a good grade the second time around, who gets the course credit — the student or the tutor?

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Hmm…. what’s on TV tonight?

According to the TV listings, Rockpoint PD is on at 10:30 on the Comedy Network. How about that? In tonight’s episode, Hey Mister Taxi Driver, “Kimizu (Simon Hayama) and Tait (Jennifer MacLean) enlist the help of a taxi driver when their squad car is stolen”. Sounds sufficiently wacky. I think I’ll watch it.