Garbled quotes quiz

Apr 16, 2013 19:38

It's been a while since I last had a quiz, so here's a new one now: A quotes quiz, my favourite kind! This one has a twist, though. I have picked 20 quotes from films and television and run them through Lost in Translation Agency, which translates phrases back and forth until the result is word soup.

Can you still figure out the original contexts/ ( Read more... )

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irmelin April 16 2013, 18:37:07 UTC
This made my head hurt! 2 is Doctor Who, the Doctor's Wife. And I got 18, but I see someone else was quicker.

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kattahj April 16 2013, 18:47:13 UTC
It is rather head-hurty! I made sure only to add in the ones I could still remember the original for the next day. :-) And yes, that is indeed the TARDIS speaking!

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davidbrider April 16 2013, 19:30:39 UTC
1 - looks rather a bit like the opening spiel from Supernatural

13 - a corruption of "second star on the right, and straight on 'til morning" from Peter Pan?

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kattahj April 16 2013, 19:38:00 UTC
Yes and yes!

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davidbrider April 16 2013, 19:34:47 UTC
At a pinch, 16 could be "that's no moon, that's a space station" from Star Wars. But yeah, most of these are...totally weirding me out. I'm voting "yes" to the offer of a list of fandoms! :-)

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kattahj April 16 2013, 19:38:31 UTC
No, sorry!

And at the speed these are being guessed, I won't need a list of fandoms!

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minutia_r April 17 2013, 04:54:13 UTC
Is 15 from the intro to Fullmetal Alchemist?

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kattahj April 17 2013, 18:14:33 UTC
It is indeed!

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love2loveher April 19 2013, 13:19:08 UTC
11 - the princess bride?

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kattahj April 19 2013, 14:38:48 UTC
Yes it is! Do I get a character too?

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love2loveher April 19 2013, 14:40:03 UTC
It's either the grandfather or the little boy. Names are escaping me today.

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kattahj April 19 2013, 14:41:11 UTC
It's the little boy. :-) I don't think they had names!

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