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Posted: March 31 2010 at 05:35
akamaisondufromage wrote:
American Khatru wrote:
Jim Garten wrote:
American Khatru wrote:
As it turns out it's "Jeux sans frontières"! That's just French for "games without frontiers".
Hence the line 'it's a knockout' - in the 1970s/1980s there was a TV show in the UK called 'It's A Knockout' where teams from various towns would compete in ludicrous games - it became so popular the format extended to include other European countries too - the name of the show? Jeux Sans Frontieres
And this is how ridiculous it all was
Great information, THANK YOU.
I enjoyed that video (only had time for a minute, but will watch all later). Holy smokes is that ridiculous. "The Belgian dummy tried to put the GB dummy through the hole..."
Thanks for that! Remembeer this ? Stuart Hall is hysterical!!
LOLOL!!!!!!!! Killed myself laughing becasue of the laughing - ruddy heck he can laugh cant he?
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Posted: March 30 2010 at 18:10
Hi,
It's a modern world and a lot of things are released in more than one language ... heck, you can get David Bowie's Heroes song on at least 4 different languages!
Weird that we are thinking that is strange ... unless we're not aware that there are other countries that speak different languages out there?
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Posted: March 30 2010 at 16:09
American Khatru wrote:
Jim Garten wrote:
American Khatru wrote:
As it turns out it's "Jeux sans frontières"! That's just French for "games without frontiers".
Hence the line 'it's a knockout' - in the 1970s/1980s there was a TV show in the UK called 'It's A Knockout' where teams from various towns would compete in ludicrous games - it became so popular the format extended to include other European countries too - the name of the show? Jeux Sans Frontieres
And this is how ridiculous it all was
Great information, THANK YOU.
I enjoyed that video (only had time for a minute, but will watch all later). Holy smokes is that ridiculous. "The Belgian dummy tried to put the GB dummy through the hole..."
Thanks for that! Remembeer this ? Stuart Hall is hysterical!!
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Posted: March 30 2010 at 12:07
I have a nice story to tell you: In Italy, in the late 70s somebody published a book of Pink Floyd songs. Unfortunately they didn't have Internet and the author tried to guess the lyrics just listening to the albums. It generated some nice stories. In Summer '68 "Ringing by phone" became "Rita Pavone" a pop singer's name of the 60s (retired few years ago at the age of 70). She was proud to have been mentioned by Roger Waters in a song. It became a legend, mainly because nobody was able to find a reason why Waters may be aware of the existence of a 150cm tall, red haired italian girl specialiased in "Shakes" and children's songs. On the same book there were other nice interpretations on Astronomy domine, Grantchester Meadows and Echoes, but I don't remember exactly which ones.
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Posted: March 25 2010 at 13:17
Jim Garten wrote:
American Khatru wrote:
As it turns out it's "Jeux sans frontières"! That's just French for "games without frontiers".
Hence the line 'it's a knockout' - in the 1970s/1980s there was a TV show in the UK called 'It's A Knockout' where teams from various towns would compete in ludicrous games - it became so popular the format extended to include other European countries too - the name of the show? Jeux Sans Frontieres
And this is how ridiculous it all was
Great information, THANK YOU.
I enjoyed that video (only had time for a minute, but will watch all later). Holy smokes is that ridiculous. "The Belgian dummy tried to put the GB dummy through the hole..."
Why must my spell-checker continually underline the word "prog"?
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Posted: March 25 2010 at 11:20
Hi,
It's much more common in rock music to catch things like that and most of them are actually done live, not always on the recording.
I imagine that some folks get tired of some lyrics and would normally make fun of them or transpose a word or two to come off as something else. I really think that it is much more useful and fun in performance than otherwise.
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