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DigitalSteamDigitalSteam Posts: 299
edited January 2019 in The Commons

Is this already a thing?  There should be a thread where you grab a promo image from a product or character, that - well, let's say, for whatever reason, reminds you of something or someone, then you post it with your caption hinting at the obvious :)  Anybody wanna play?

I'll start.

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"One snap of my fingers, and I can raise hemlines so far the whole world is your gynecologist."

 

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  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019
    edited January 2019

    Would you put the same subtitle to a guy render with that expression? "One snap with my fingers and I drop my pants so quickly..."

    Just wondering.

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  • DigitalSteamDigitalSteam Posts: 299
    BeeMKay said:

    Would you put the same subtitle to a guy render with that expression? "One snap with my fingers and I drop my pants so quickly..."

    Just wondering.

    Probably not - because I don't know of a famous television comedy where a guy who looked like that had that line of dialog. :)

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,521

    AbFab possibly hasn't been shown in every country 

  • DigitalSteamDigitalSteam Posts: 299

    I'm sure it hasn't... Some cultures' or languages' humor doesn't even translate well into other cultures or languages. I'm just saying, that's why I wouldn't apply that caption to a picture of a guy.  But, then... You could imagine a situation where it could work, for sure. :)

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019

    I didn't even know that that waas a quote from a show, or that that show existed... I had to google it. I love Joanna Lumley in "Sapphire&Steel", so I noticed the similarity of the face to hers... but AbFab, well, yeah. laugh

  • HylasHylas Posts: 5,275

    I'm just happy someone made an abfab reference, sweeeeetyyyyyyyy, daaaaahling, sweeeeetyyyyyyy!

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,293
    DigitalSteam said:

    I'm sure it hasn't... Some cultures' or languages' humor doesn't even translate well into other cultures or languages.

    John Cleese said that when some US company bought the rights to Fawlty Towers, the first thing they did was to remove Basil from the manuscript. Go figure.

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019

    One thing for sure is that you'll have to learn a lot of cultural references and history if you want to understand jokes (or colloquialisms, for the matter) in a different language. In some cases, when you can suddenly string things together, it's, like "Oh, now it mykes sense why that makes them so angry/amused."

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,812

    HaHa, I think my favorite line from Fawlty Towers was "These eggs taste like you laid them."

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,094
    Wendy_Carrara said:

    AbFab possibly hasn't been shown in every country 

    ...love that show.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    nonesuch00 said:

    HaHa, I think my favorite line from Fawlty Towers was "These eggs taste like you laid them."

    haha... I loved that show.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,217
    edited January 2019
    nicstt said:
    nonesuch00 said:

    HaHa, I think my favorite line from Fawlty Towers was "These eggs taste like you laid them."

    haha... I loved that show.

    Funniest line in the series of Fawlty Towers episodes.  Nearly the last line in the last episode of the series was "Would you care for a rat?" ROFL laugh  

    <I've removed the links to the YouTube clip to avoid spoilers.  To get the full effect you have to watch the whole episode.  "Basil The Rat" season 2 episode 6>

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  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,747

    Manuel: You put basil in ratatouille? No, no, is no basil in ratatou— Oh-h-h— !? YOU— PUT— *BASIL* in RATATOUILLE !!??

  • xyer0xyer0 Posts: 6,399
    DigitalSteam said:

    Is this already a thing?  There should be a thread where you grab a promo image from a product or character, that - well, let's say, for whatever reason, reminds you of something or someone, then you post it with your caption hinting at the obvious :)  Anybody wanna play?

    I'll start.

    image

    "One snap of my fingers, and I can raise hemlines so far the whole world is your gynecologist."

     

    Thank you. NOW that hairstyle makes sense to me. Although the jacket remains a mystery.

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