In no particular order, these things happened Saturday.
1. We saw an electronic sign warning us that there is a drought and we should conserve water. We know there’s a drought, the river that runs by us has more sandbars than not now, and everyone else on our block has given up on watering. Our lawn does look like an oasis. Gary is torn between Grass Pride and Non-Conformity.
2. Speaking of the drought, there is some strange fluid falling out of the sky right now.
3. Speaking of droughts, I might have a bladder infection right now.
4. Back to Saturday – I watched half of The Prestige before I gave up. It took me two hours to watch half because I had to keep backing up to work out what on earth they were saying. I thought my ears would adjust but they never did. “Wammbo yerda?” (rewind) “Waddabowt yer dot?” (rewind) “What about your daughter?”
5. We watched a bit of the Olympics. I remembered hearing that Saint Louis had hosted the third Olympics in 1904, the same year they held the World’s Fair. What a coup, right? I looked it up. Not so much. The reason I didn’t know about the Olympics instead of the World’s Fair is that we evidently screwed up the Olympics to a massive degree. The first winner of the marathon cheated, the real winner was doping with rat poison, some guy took a nap in the middle, and one guy from Africa was chased off course by dogs. For the full story read here.
7 responses to “Busy Saturday”
YES! I’m having to rewind all the time now to try to figure out mumbled dialogue. I don’t think it’s just my ageing ears – even my daughter can’t make it out sometimes (though mind you she’s got years of loud music through earphones behind her already). There’s realism and then there’s failing a basic requirement of story-telling.
“Wammbo yerda?” Wasn’t set in New Jersey, was it? That’s how folks talk here, and it drives me crazy. Maybe it’s supposed to be audience participation. Make up your own dialogue.
Big Dot – I keep asking Gary “What? Huh?” as if he would know; his ears are 8 years older.
~~Silk – It was in England and Colorado. Hugh Jackman didnt have an Aussie accent, he sounded American most of the time. Christian Bale was much more incomprehensible, as was Michael Caine.
There was an SNL skit sending up Guy Whatshisname’s movies, like “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” where the dialect is so thick you can’t make any sense of it.
Huh. I’m usually pretty good with accents, but if you’re watching a DVD, they usually have subtitles that you can turn on for the deaf.
http://worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=20668
Ah, yeah. Dares yer link, luv.
Tami -No, I recorded it on the Tivo. Had I known I could have turned on closed captioning.
Becs – Hilarious!