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I am not making this up.

#1 Post by nitrah55 » Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:59 am

NPR (via Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me) reports a Bejing restauranteur wanted to attract English-speaking patrons during the Olympics, so he typed the name of his restaurant into a translation web site, took what came out and had a sign made, to replace the Chinese one.

His restaurant is easy to find. It's the one called "Translation Server Error"
I am about 25% sure of this.

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Re: I am not making this up.

#2 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:02 am

nitrah55 wrote:NPR (via Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me) reports a Bejing restauranteur wanted to attract English-speaking patrons during the Olympics, so he typed the name of his restaurant into a translation web site, took what came out and had a sign made, to replace the Chinese one.

His restaurant is easy to find. It's the one called "Translation Server Error"
Is the address 404 File Not Found? :)

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#3 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:03 am

The words "server" and "error" should not be that close when it comes to restaurants.

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#4 Post by minimetoo26 » Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:12 am

I once got a fortune cookie with the fortune:

Fortune not found

Abort? Retry? Cancel?

I saved it. It was so me...

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#5 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:01 am

the R and X rated versions are here (scroll down)

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language ... 05195.html
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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Re: I am not making this up.

#6 Post by frogman042 » Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:50 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
nitrah55 wrote:NPR (via Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me) reports a Bejing restauranteur wanted to attract English-speaking patrons during the Olympics, so he typed the name of his restaurant into a translation web site, took what came out and had a sign made, to replace the Chinese one.

His restaurant is easy to find. It's the one called "Translation Server Error"
Is the address 404 File Not Found? :)
IIRC, in the banter on the show they mentioned that the restaurant was just down the street from File Not Found (can't recall if they included the error number).

---Jay (If you know the year that Ban Biao, the Chinese historian died, you'll know the number of days until I get hung out to dry - I mean the airing of my show)

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