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Joseph Nebus  
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 More options Nov 4 2009, 11:34 am
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus)
Date: 3 Nov 2009 22:34:06 -0500
Local: Wed, Nov 4 2009 11:34 am
Subject: Re: Today's XKCD

thro...@sheol.org (Wayne Throop) writes:
>: Moriarty <blue...@ivillage.com>
>: Oometimes however, the show/movie is from a part of the world where
>: the variant of English is so far from your own that you need subtitles
>: or you'll won't understand a thing.
>There was once a Nova episode (I think it was) that interviewed in
>detail several (I seem to recall, seven) families from various places
>in the US.  The folks from rural Georgia had subtitles.  And needed them.
>And then of course there's "Airplane".  But that's a mild
>case, compared to the Nova mentioned above.
>    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RrJih_2PKM

        I liked on _Danger Mouse_ when they had the alien J J Quark on,
and he talked in a mild Scottish brogue, and Danger Mouse and Penfold
agreed that he was speaking some incomprehensibly alien tongue.

        And then he yelled at his robot Grovel.  

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