Saturday, October 31, 2009

Translated quotes.

"Extremely confrontational and disturbing grab at attention, of which humour is the intended byproduct." Said John Safran.

"Smug smug [Aboriginal word] smug [traditional landowners] smug." Said John Butler.

"Something very funny, for a female." Said Tina Fey.

"RT @myotheraccount: Something funny I said before." Said the self-promoters.

"Remember Merrick & Rosso in like, 99? A bit like that." Said Scott Dooley.

"Another Monday, another public apology for the gross sexual misconduct of others." Said David Gallop.

"Something inspired but obvious in a newly gentrified suburb." Said the (sydney) magazine.

"My own appropriation of Richie Benaud's voice, but with swear words." Said The Twelfth Man.

"Slightly irritating, but infallibly accurate prose, y'all." Said Carles.

"Slightly irritating, and irrelevant prose." Said Sam de Brito.

"A joke in the same realm as 'man's voice raising an octave after he is hit in crotch.'" Said Rove McManus.

"What it was like growing up as a druggy hardcore kid with Catholic guilt, in a way that makes you wish you were there." Said The Hold Steady.

"A series of statements and interviews that make it quite apparent that I don't really 'get me' yet." Said Ruby Rose.

"Cute reference, cute reference, cute reference, cute reference!" Said the bike-riding girls of Surry Hills.

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc sagittis tortor nec est aliquam vitae egestas tellus ornare. Sed tempor justo convallis lacus ornare dictum." Said Andrew G.

"Heaps boring description." Said Tim Winton.

"The same thing I said on Glass House three years ago - made to sound spontaneous by my desperation and visible anxiety." Said Wil Anderson.

"Lifted directly from AAP, but with a fresh spelling mistake of our own." Said SMH online.

"Come hang with me on Sunday, or you will burn for all eternity." Said the new wave of Christian teenagers.

"SEO." Said the earnest social media expert.

"LOL." Said the earnest social media expert.

"A stack of longneck bottles with some ironing boards and crap I found welded all together." Said a Contemporary Artist.

"Lateral humour inside layered meta-narratives, all the while apologising for being so self-conscious of everything that has come before us." Said McSweeneys.

"Something down-to-earth as I casually wander by. Probably around Five-Ways." Said Hugo Weaving.

"(Complete silence since '08)." Said Samantha Brett.


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