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Comedy à la Google? (img)
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Caffeinated Theme Master  Join Date: Nov 1999
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It always ticks me off when Google tries to be "helpful" and chooses its language based on my IP address. So I went to the preferences page to change the language back to English, click in the menu and look through the list items ... WTH? Is this "joke" Google Germany only or do you folks from other countries get the same menu items?
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Yep, I get the same options. You mean you don't speak bork bork bork!?
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Caffeinated Theme Master Join Date: Nov 1999
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Originally posted by PurpleGiant:
Yep, I get the same options. You mean you don't speak bork bork bork!?
Looking at MoS's screenshot (  ) it'd seem that I can read it. Dunno about speaking/writing it, though.
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Originally posted by effgee:
Looking at MoS's screenshot ( ) it'd seem that I can read it. Dunno about speaking/writing it, though.
It's the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show. That's how he talked. His trademark phrase was (of course), "Bork, bork, bork!"
There's Elmer Fudd, Bork bork bork, Esperanto (a made-up real language a la Klingon, that was intended to be an "international" language, meaning that if universally used internationally nobody would have an advantage, communication-wise, over anybody else because nobody would be using their native language), Hacker (n0rM4L s34rCh, 1|\/|4935, 6r00pZ, d1r3c70rY), Latin, Klingon, and Pig Latin.
Fun stuff.
(Last edited by Person Man; Jan 21, 2005 at 11:40 AM.
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That's great!
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they've been around for a while..
Still cool though.
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Caffeinated Theme Master Join Date: Nov 1999
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Originally posted by Albert Pujols:
they've been around for a while..
Heh - that's funny. Especially seeing that on Google's German site. IIRC, Elmar Fudd is called "Schweinchen Dick" (that's German for "fat", not "penis"  ) and in the German version of the Muppets, the Swedish chef says "Röm Pöm Pöm Pöm", not "Bork" - so your average Kraut will look at that menu and be reasonably convinced that the Google folks have lost it.
I did know Elmar Fudd, of course but by the time I made it to the US, watching the Muppet Show wasn't on top of my to-do list. That information alone was worth posting this - another cultural gap filled thanks to the inexhaustible knowledge-pool they call the lounge ...
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