Admit it, you've sung this in your head.
Every. Single. Time.
(found in a post celebrating the 25th anniversary of the .gif )
Every. Single. Time.
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Showing posts with label pop culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pop culture. Show all posts
Monday, 18 June 2012
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Trivial Pursuit cards - WAT.
And thus we've arrived at the final showdown. The one where I present you with some hilariously misprinted cards. I promise that by the end of this you will have a whole new perspective on the world.
Shall I give you an example? Let's try to answer the questions in this card:
1 - Okay, no idea. But probably somewhere in Europe.
2 - Sónia Braga, apparently.
3 -Mr. Dog Julius Caesar.
4 - As far as I can gather, Michelangelo.
5 - It seems "blenda" is already a mineral in itself, but it's the main source of zinc.
6 - You know, I'm not even going to try to guess, since this was written in the mid-90's and by now Australia has probably a lot more victories under their belt.
Okay, let's see if we got it.
So it seems that...what. Wait, what? Spider Woman was...postage stamps? Sun is a mineral? Okay. Let's try this again:
Barbara Streisand is a country. Morever, it's the birthplace of Frankestein. And Massachusetts is a lake in Asia. Good to know.
Shall I give you an example? Let's try to answer the questions in this card:
1 - Okay, no idea. But probably somewhere in Europe.
2 - Sónia Braga, apparently.
3 -
4 - As far as I can gather, Michelangelo.
5 - It seems "blenda" is already a mineral in itself, but it's the main source of zinc.
6 - You know, I'm not even going to try to guess, since this was written in the mid-90's and by now Australia has probably a lot more victories under their belt.
Okay, let's see if we got it.
So it seems that...what. Wait, what? Spider Woman was...postage stamps? Sun is a mineral? Okay. Let's try this again:
Barbara Streisand is a country. Morever, it's the birthplace of Frankestein. And Massachusetts is a lake in Asia. Good to know.
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Trivial Pursuit cards - the misspelled and the puzzling
A few weeks ago, I was at a friend's house when we all decided to play some Trivial Pursuit. Bare in mind this: as a kid, and up to that particular point, I always found the game a decent enough challenge. Sure, you'd get the odd tv-related question that everyone could answer, but it was far more likely that you'd be discussing weird shit like "who was the last king of the House of Wessex" or something of that sort. At least in my edition, the family one - and they called it that because you had yellow cards for the kids and blue cards for the adults, so as to level the challenge for everyone.
See, I always got very embarrassed when I missed a question, because I knew that I had to succeed to be considered as cultured as my mum is. Except that when we play against her, we have to make her play with 4 wheels...and she still wins.
Regardless, I was taken aback by how FUCKING EASY the questions were on a much more recent version of the game. Questions like "who is the tiger in the comic Calvin and Hobbes" wouldn't even appear on the kids questions of the family version of Trivial Pursuit. Of course, the kind of questions that do appear in that version are far weirder than you could ever imagine.
I always tell this story about a particular Trivial Pursuit card I have that was completely misprinted to the point that it still makes sense, but in a very odd and WRONG way. Firstly, I'd like to show you the simpler mistakes. [Note that I'll always be discussing the "pink" questions.]
The misspellings
Let's consider the question. "Which blonde was the recruit that did crazy things?" Answer: Goldie Hawn, for the question is referencing the portuguese title of Private Benjamin, "Loucuras de uma recruta". Let's look at the back of the card.
Oh, my bad. The real answer was Godie Hawn.
See, I always got very embarrassed when I missed a question, because I knew that I had to succeed to be considered as cultured as my mum is. Except that when we play against her, we have to make her play with 4 wheels...and she still wins.
Regardless, I was taken aback by how FUCKING EASY the questions were on a much more recent version of the game. Questions like "who is the tiger in the comic Calvin and Hobbes" wouldn't even appear on the kids questions of the family version of Trivial Pursuit. Of course, the kind of questions that do appear in that version are far weirder than you could ever imagine.
I always tell this story about a particular Trivial Pursuit card I have that was completely misprinted to the point that it still makes sense, but in a very odd and WRONG way. Firstly, I'd like to show you the simpler mistakes. [Note that I'll always be discussing the "pink" questions.]
The misspellings
Let's consider the question. "Which blonde was the recruit that did crazy things?" Answer: Goldie Hawn, for the question is referencing the portuguese title of Private Benjamin, "Loucuras de uma recruta". Let's look at the back of the card.
Oh, my bad. The real answer was Godie Hawn.
Friday, 23 April 2010
UR DOIN IT WRONG.
And here is a montage of people doing shit wrong on informercials. Whoever had the idea for this...I salute you.
Thursday, 22 April 2010
4 Chord Song
Music snobs have been saying for years that all pop music sounds the same, and finally, some australian dudes have validated this theory:
I bet that if I knew anything about music, I wouldn't find this half as fascinating, but as I'm an ignorant waffle, my reaction is "wow, we are all suckers".
I bet that if I knew anything about music, I wouldn't find this half as fascinating, but as I'm an ignorant waffle, my reaction is "wow, we are all suckers".
