I’ve not been near a TV this week due to a hectic schedule so I’ll regale you with some subtitles from the archives. Clearly someone is a sports fan as the names of famous sportsmen feature heavily on Sky News.
I’ve already mentioned Brett Lee, the Australian cricketer. In a weather report, we were told of some impending wet weather. Instead of taking a brolly we were told
Take a Brett Lee with you.
Following this I became slightly suspicious when, instead of General Ratko Mladic, Sky News told us that the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia were looking for Lawrence Dallaglio, the former England Rugby Union International.
Surely it couldn’t be deliberate? Maybe not, but the next one certainly is. In another weather report, the word pleasant was replaced in its subtitled equivalent by Paul Peschisolido.
Paul who? Indeed – not the sort of name you could make up. Peschisolido was a Canadian soccer player. The word ‘Journeyman’ could have been invented for him as he played for around fourteen clubs in a twenty year career. If you hadn’t heard of him you wouldn’t have used him in your subtitles, least of all spell his name correctly. M’lud I rest my case.
A final football funny; In January Manchester City attempted the ambitious signing of Kaka, A C Milan’s Brazilian International. Kaka – quite simple isn’t it? Particularly if you’d typed it a few hundred times already. However, according to Sky News, City were looking to bolster their squad with the signing of Kafka.
More next time.
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