A Conversation for Bolle's Berliner Buletten Bude (Inh. AXR)
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You can call me TC Started conversation Dec 28, 2002
This works quite well in French. Let's try it here.
Take a famous person and translate their name. Either German into English or English into German. The others have to guess who it's supposed to be.
No more than five per posting.......
Albert Onestone (an easy one to start with!)
Richard Coachman
Elisabeth Schneider
Sam Knie-dich-hin
Uwe Bafög
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HollePolle Posted Jan 6, 2003
OK, lets try:
Albert Einstein (has been said, already)
Richard Busmann (?)
Elisabeth Taylor (actress)
Sam Kneeldown (?)
Uwe Grant (?)
Happy New Year, everybody!
HP
»--.
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jan 6, 2003
yes, Einstein and Taylor. But the rest 
. If it was Richard Coatman I could have guessed the translation was Richard Clayderman but 
Happy New Year everybody!
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You can call me TC Posted Jan 6, 2003
OK - AFAIK Hugh is the equivalent of Uwe. So Holle Polle got nearly all of them there.
A further clue:
The guy with the coaches wrote operas.
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jan 6, 2003
And the other is Richard Wagner 
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Chan-Mick le Frog Posted Jan 6, 2003
Oil Rig, the thick policeman...
PS: Think you need to be German or live there to get this one.
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jan 6, 2003
Hmm - when it comes to I can only think of 'der Bulle von Tölz' but I fail to see the connection to an Oil Rig
Here are five more:
- Oscar Fountain
- George Mattocklet
- Oliver Rowingboat
- Helge Tailor
- Michael Altfeld
and of course
- Oil Rig, the thick policeman...
is still open
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You can call me TC Posted Jan 6, 2003
Derrick, of course!
- Oscar Fountain >>> Oskar Lafontaine
- George Mattocklet >>> 
- Oliver Rowingboat >>> Oliver Kahn (should that be barge?)
- Helge Tailor >>>> Helge Schneider
- Michael Altfeld >>> Mike Oldfield
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jan 6, 2003
Ah, of course, Derrick 
leo didn't give me anything particular as a translation for 'Kahn' so perhaps 'barge' would have been it 
As to Mattocklet, this could also be 'Hoe-let' where I put the -let in to indicate some 'deformation' from the usual spelling...
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Chan-Mick le Frog Posted Jan 6, 2003
Well done!
You wanna hear him speaking French in the dubbed version!
Well... Nein, Ich glaube nicht.
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jan 6, 2003
Je croix this would sound rather terrible 
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You can call me TC Posted Jan 6, 2003
They once showed a clip of it in Chinese. 
While there's still one in the last list that has us foxed, let me see if I can think up some more.
1. Fred Quecksilber
2. Stephanie Count
3. Fred Sparkler
4. John Stream
Oh - yes - and Sam Neill was the one Holle Polle didn't get -
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Chan-Mick le Frog Posted Jan 6, 2003
That was actually me who started the French game aber my Deutsch ist nicht gut enough to keep on spieling with you. Ich go zurück to die Frogs.
Auf Wiedersehen,
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jan 7, 2003
Bon voyage then, Chan-Mick
Fred Quecksilber of course is Freddy Mercury
the others... hmmm *scratches non-existing beard*
George Mattocklet was meant to mean Georg Hackl but that one obviously was too obscure
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skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires Posted Jan 7, 2003
*laughs and does some "English for run-aways* My dear Mr singing club...
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jan 7, 2003
"My dear Mr singing club..." 
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- 1: You can call me TC (Dec 28, 2002)
- 2: Loup Dargent (Dec 28, 2002)
- 3: HollePolle (Jan 6, 2003)
- 4: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Jan 6, 2003)
- 5: You can call me TC (Jan 6, 2003)
- 6: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Jan 6, 2003)
- 7: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Jan 6, 2003)
- 8: You can call me TC (Jan 6, 2003)
- 9: Chan-Mick le Frog (Jan 6, 2003)
- 10: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Jan 6, 2003)
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- 13: Chan-Mick le Frog (Jan 6, 2003)
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- 15: Chan-Mick le Frog (Jan 6, 2003)
- 16: You can call me TC (Jan 6, 2003)
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- 18: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Jan 7, 2003)
- 19: skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires (Jan 7, 2003)
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