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waynester can you please tell me a joke. i am very sad at the moment. i really like silly jokes, but not ones about poo. jokes involving lobsters are good, or superheroes, or lesbian vampires. although not the lesbian vampire one because i already know that and it wont make me laugh.
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and American friend is interested in seeing Alan Partridge, I can only find region 2 of either series, american's don't do multi region - is it possible to copy my Partridge over onto a region 1 disc, or will my mac/pc automatically make the disc a region 2, or will it only play on mac/pc?
Anyway you know can do a transfer?
Cheers
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Not wishing to step on Waynster's toes but if you're looking to burn a region 2 dvd to region 1 you also need to convert it from PAL to NTSC, and by the looks of it that isn't easy since you have to rip it, convert the video files to NTSC and then encode a new DVD with the converted files, unless you can get hold of a 'trial' copy of DVFilm Atlantis which appears to be a good solution, I've just had a look at my usual sources and can't find any copies unfortunately, good luck anyway, sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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quote:Originally posted by vikram: tunnel visions?
Have another request!
Trying to track down Hop on DVD. Can be bought from www.filmmovement.com but only for North America residents and expensive - $30. It's a Belgian film. A Benelux site that has this (with english subtitles) at a decent price much appreciated. Or can I get it on R0 / R3?
Ok The first one you can get on DVD here in Belgium but with only Dutch Subtitles, but I am sure with a bit more invvestigation I might be able to find out if a UK version is available somewhere (more likley was the subtitling was done in the States, which could be a problem otherwise) - else buy it from www.freerecordshop.be, come over and maybe Darryn and me can read the subtitles and do the english dub - now that would be a laugh.
The latter - that is going to be a hell of a search - no apparent video release anywhere....
quote:Originally posted by discodamage: waynester can you please tell me a joke. i am very sad at the moment. i really like silly jokes, but not ones about poo. jokes involving lobsters are good, or superheroes, or lesbian vampires. although not the lesbian vampire one because i already know that and it wont make me laugh.
Vampire (bat) joke
There was once a colony of vampire bats, and during one particularly brutal summer, a massiv drought caused lots of the local animals to die, thus starving the Vampire Bats of their food source - blood.
The grand pubah bat decreed that all male bats between the ages of 16 and 64 should be conscripted and divided into squadrons to search for a new food source. So at 6am the following morning, four squadrons of bats, several hundred strong were despatched to the four points of the compass in search of food.
Dusk fell, as all the female bats waited patiently for the return of their loved ones, and slowly one by one they returned. The Colour Seargant bat would stand on the door, clipboard in hand as they flew in:
CSB: Name? B: George Bat CSB: Find any blood? B: No Sir CSB: Ok go in and get your head down. Next!
CSB: Name? B: Mike Bat CSB: Find any blood? B: No Sir CSB: or wombles? B: Fuck off sarge! CSB: Sorry. Go in the and get your head down. Next!
- and so it continued into the night. Come daylight a count was done and all bar one bat had returned - just Fred bat was still out there somewhere.
Word spread throughout the batcaves, and soon the women got news.Fred Bat was particularly cute, and a bit of a Gigolo on the quiet, so many of the female bats began to cry.
Time passed further, and by dusk the following day, it was decided that Fred Bat had obviously died in his extreme search for blood, and that at 10am the following day, a special service would be held in the bat church.
The next morning all were assembled in the church. All the female bats were wailing "oh Fred Bat! How could you leave us? We loved you so!". The Vicar Bat then signalled for silence before reading a small prayer - then as he cleared his throat the doors to the church flew open! And there was Fred bat, exhausted - and covered in blood! There was blood on his face, all down his chest, over his wings! And there was much rejoicing! The Women bats surrounded him "Fred You alive!" whilst senior military bats broke through the crowd to interrogate Fred.
Finally Lieutenant Colonel Tarquin Fortesque Bat (DFC and nine bars) breaks through the lustful ladybats and demands that Fred show them where he found the blood.
So exhausted, Fred flies out of the colony, with all the bats behind him baited with eagerness and hunger. They fly 200 miles to the north, then 200 miles to the west, then another hundred north and then fly to the top of the sand dune when exhausted Fred shouts: "STOP!!!!!!!!!"
The entire colony freezes and looks below at the almost barren landscape before them.
"What is it Fred ? What?" They all cry
"Well you see that tree down there?"
"Yes Fred! We see the tree!" they screech excitedly
quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: Waynster,
and American friend is interested in seeing Alan Partridge, I can only find region 2 of either series, american's don't do multi region - is it possible to copy my Partridge over onto a region 1 disc, or will my mac/pc automatically make the disc a region 2, or will it only play on mac/pc?
Anyway you know can do a transfer?
Cheers
Thanks to Physic for answering, but wouldn't an easier way be to DIVX rip it? Assuming your american Friend has access to a PC, he could watch it then?
He might be able just to download it if someone else has already done the ripping, thus saving you a job and him the postal wait (just the traffic on his download)
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: else buy it from www.freerecordshop.be, come over and maybe Darryn and me can read the subtitles and do the english dub - now that would be a laugh. [/QB]
Ok this can be picked up for around 10 quid. The translation work would take a little time, but then again I am sure if you do DVD Rips it can't be that difficult if you acn rip out a subtitle track to insert one - its just the translation/scripting which might take a bit of time.
However I think the idea of a bunch of your mates doing a silly voiced dubbed version whilst being good fun to do, may lose the edge of the movie.
In theory Wayne we could get the Dutch Sub DVD, rip it to a hard drive, re-author the DVD without subtitles and then lay over an English translation of the subtitle track and re burn the DVD..
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: In theory Wayne we could get the Dutch Sub DVD, rip it to a hard drive, re-author the DVD without subtitles and then lay over an English translation of the subtitle track and re burn the DVD..
But that's a pain in the arse.
If someone is prepared to Translate Show Me Love in the same way, I might do it. And I suppose a few copies of that might want distributing to people on here.
quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: Waynster,
and American friend is interested in seeing Alan Partridge, I can only find region 2 of either series, american's don't do multi region - is it possible to copy my Partridge over onto a region 1 disc, or will my mac/pc automatically make the disc a region 2, or will it only play on mac/pc?
Anyway you know can do a transfer?
Cheers
You can rip to your hard drive as DVD with the ever lovely DVD Shrink which will also remove any region encoding for you during the rip. You can then simply burn straight back to DVD, no fucking about with codecs or any of that malarky required. While you will have to split the episodes up to fit them onto 4.7GB blank DVD-R's, DVD Shrink is a joy to use and could be operated by untrained monkeys so it shouldn't give you any hassle.
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quote:Originally posted by Waynster: If someone is prepared to Translate Show Me Love in the same way, I might do it. And I suppose a few copies of that might want distributing to people on here.
I have Show Me Love - English subtitles, R0.
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quote:Originally posted by vikram: But no dvd writer.
I got one - if maybe you could be super cool and send me a copy in return I could churn a couple out for other people on the list - been wanting to see this film for aaaaggeessss.......
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OK Vikkers - we found a copy in the dam of hop for €20 - do you want me to pick this up and maybe start dubbing it or at least trying to rip it? Mail me at my gmail account if you want usto pick you this up?
nah, don't worry about it. really need to rein in my spending.
but ta lots.
just watched my copy of show me love. it's a r0 shipped from hong kong (ie a professional pirate copy). the pic is a bit grainly, but that could be how the movie was filmed. can't remember. subtitling is very good, though there are a couple of errors. sound is perfect.
i'll make a copy sometime next week and post it to you. email me your address. vikramahl [át] hotm@i|[dot]c0m
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Since you mentioned you are good at finding people:
When I was eight years old (in 1985), my best friend was a girl named (Name removed as requested). She was my little girl sistah soul mate. One day, her father sent her little sis (Name removed as requested) to the car to retrieve something. Within, (Name removed as requested) found marked packages of white powder. The next day, on a Wednesday, I was tearfully hugging my friend and waving her off from the street in front of her house. Her mother, upon discovering her husband’s nasty habit, took the girls and whisked them home to Holland. I haven’t heard from her since, and although I have looked, can’t seem to be able to overcome the distance and find my friend so many miles away. At the time we were living in Miami, Florida. Her mother’s name is ((Name removed as requested)), and I’m sure they all changed their last name, but on the off chance you could find her I would be eternally in your debt (within reason of course).
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Waynster, is there a good country-specific people-finder site that she could try? (Like a Dutch equivalent of Yahoo People Search or something?)
edit because i seem incapable of remembering to close my brackets on the first try.
quote:Originally posted by rooster: Well, I figured I'd give it a shot -- can you blame me? and she might have kept the same last name...
Ok my lovely lady had found 4 (Name removed as requested) in Holland, and apparently one with the first name beginning (Name removed as requested)(though the others don't match) - I don't know if you knew the middle name of the sister but thats as close as we can get - You can't really search on first names.
email address is waynster {at} gmail if you want us to forward the address.
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Morning Waynester, thanks for your earlier sleuthing.
Some cinema flavoured tasks for you now: the Odeon Leicester Square is the biggest cinema screen in Britain, is it also the biggest in Europe? The Embassy Theatre in Wellington where the ROTK premiere was held claims to be the biggest screen in the Southern Hemisphere, is this true? Where is the biggest cinema screen in the WORLD?
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quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: Morning Waynester, thanks for your earlier sleuthing.
Some cinema flavoured tasks for you now: the Odeon Leicester Square is the biggest cinema screen in Britain, is it also the biggest in Europe? The Embassy Theatre in Wellington where the ROTK premiere was held claims to be the biggest screen in the Southern Hemisphere, is this true? Where is the biggest cinema screen in the WORLD?
Ok there are so many conflicting sites claiming that the largest screen in Europe is either at the Leicester Square Odeon, the Waterloo IMAX (20 metres high), UGC Cardiff, Manchester IMAX, UGC Megaplex Sheffield, and one claim in Hamilton Scotland by the Strathclyde Police.
The same claim seems to be shared for the World title by Sydney and Oslo, with the former having most claims but various sources, thus making me believe that to be the case, but searching on "largest Movie Screen in the world", and sure as shit, the americans claim Denver, New York, whilst Canada and Hangzhou also stick a claim in for this feat.
Incidentally, none with the exception of the waterloo IMAX seem to quote sizes.
Finally, a trip to the Guiness world of records website we hoped would clean up the issue, but alas the website has nothing under movie or cinema screen - perhaps if someone has a hardcopy nearby they can see if they can shed some light on this, but otherwise I must report it seems very open to debate - more a case judged by egos it seems rather than fact.
quote:Originally posted by discodamage: i am very sad at the moment. i really like silly jokes
A man walks into a pub with, bizarrely, half an apricot for a head. He drags himself to the bar and starts drinking heavily - double vodkas, one after the other. Eventually, the barman can restrain his curiosity no longer and asks the man how come he's got half an apricot for a head.
"*hic*," says the man. "I was in Istanbul last April. I bought a nice old brass lamp and when I rubbed it, guess what, a genie came out an offered me three wishes."
"Wow!" said the barman.
"S'right, *hic*. Wow. S'what I said. So, first wish, I asked for more money than I could ever spend. And in a flash I was looking at a pile of gold that I couldn't see the top of."
"Amazing!" said the barman.
"S'right, *hic*. Amazing. S'what I said. Second wish, I asked for a beautiful nude woman who would love me and make me happy for the rest of my life. And before I even finished saying it... the most beautiful nude woman ever was on my lap and kissing me all over."
"Superb!" said the barman.
"S'right, *hic*. Superb. S'what I said."
"So, what went wrong? What was your last wish?" asked the barman.
"I made a big mistake with my third wish. Big mistake. If only I could change it..."
"What did you wish?"
"Well, I wished my head could be half an apricot."
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I would like to know what the piece of music is that is played in The Thomas Crown Affair (recent version) while all the men in bowler hats are walking around the gallery.
quote:Originally posted by Abby: Are you still accepting challenges?
I would like to know what the piece of music is that is played in The Thomas Crown Affair (recent version) while all the men in bowler hats are walking around the gallery.
Cheers!
I've not seen it but surely its not too difficult to look up on IMDB - Here
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