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[Alelou]

Ah, yes, that's an old favorite. Warms a Trekkie's heart.

[Escriba]

Well, this isn't so funny if you don't know about Spanish politics, but at least it's amusing. It's a video from a tv show called "los guiñoles de Canal Plus" ("The puppet show of Channel Plus") and the idea comes originally from France (I loved their Chirac puppet ) I don't know if others countries in Europe adopted the idea. Anyway, in this video appears Ibarretxe who's the Basque community's president and who is known for having an uncanny resemblance to Spock (see for yourselves: http://www.cuak.com/?p=527) The part with Ibarretxe begins at 04:26.

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=ycfj62TjLfU

The rough translation:

Ibarretxe: Captain Kirk.
Josu Jon Imaz: (he was the President of Ibarretxe's political party) Yes, doctor Spock?
Ibarretxe: What conclusion you draw after your stay among the "batasunis" ("Batasuna" was a the political party of the radical left wing; it's now illegal.)
J.J.Imaz: That Nature is incredible. I thought that planet was wiped out, that it has become a black hole, but there is it, alive and kicking!
Ibarretxe: You are dazzled by the slightest thing.
J.J.Imaz: I don't know, I don't know...
Ibarretxe: The question is other: is peace worth it if we don't negotiate it?
J.J.Imaz: Who said that? Machiavelli, Schopenhauer or somebody like these?
Ibarretxe: No, we say it.
J.J.Imaz: We, who are wise too.

Errr.... more or less

[Asso]

[Distracted]

Ibarretxe?!!? How the heck do you pronounce that?

[Escriba]

It's quite easy, in fact:

e/ba (like "ba" in "bank")/re (like "re" in "restaurant", with a very strong "r" as if you were Russian)/che (like "che" in "chest")

Ibarretxe. It's easy.

The vice-president's surname it's more complicated (Zenarruzabeitia.) An there is the name of our police, that a Spanish speaker can't (or find very difficult to) say: ertzaintza

[Asso]

I find very charming the sound.

[Distracted]

So "txe" is pronounced "che". Fascinating. I love this stuff.

I tried to learn a little of an African dialect called Xhosa once. Talk about some impronouncable stuff. And totally impossible to describe. I had to get a CD because learning the sounds from a written description was literally impossible. They don't exist in any other language. Like Bushman clicks. Who can do that besides Bushmen?

[enterprikayak]

This is the best:

Cop Steals Weed, Gets High With His Wife, Thinks He's Gonna Die
911 Call:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpTWutrp5Xk

And the news reporter can't stop snorting with laughter. Especially the offscreen one. She really sounds like she's had some brownies.

[Distracted]

What a moron! Pot slows the local subjective temporal stream. Doesn't everybody know that? It's like your own portable time machine... or so I've heard.

[enterprikayak]

I love how serious he is. "We're dead."

[Escriba]

Can't they charge them for being "galactically stupid" or something?

Although truth being told, I won't arrest them either. I would be too busy laughing (and if I were in my country I couldn't arrest them anyway.)

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Totally amazing! Autistic guy draws an aerial view of Rome after a helicopter ride.!

[Asso]

Amazing, but not uncommon.

[Alelou]

You often see autistic guys drawing amazingly accurate aerial views of Rome after helicopter rides?

[Asso]

No! I want to say that autistic guys are often capable of doing amazing things.