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Star Trek Spoof Top Finnish Movie
Dotnaught writes to tell us Reuters is reporting that the science fiction spoof "Star Wreck: in the Pirkinning" has become Finland's most viewed movie. From the article: " [...] relying on free distribution over the Internet to reach more than 3 million viewers in less than two months. "Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning" is a full-length feature in Finnish with English subtitles. It was made by a group of students and other amateur film makers with a bare-bones budget and a few home computers to create elaborate special effects."
it is also the only Finnish movie
... and who could possibly forget the awesomely powerful weapon ...
The Twinklers!!!
It amazes me to see what can happen when corporations and communities embrace these sort of online ditribution methods. If it were in america you'd have who ever produce Star Trek screaming about pirates stealing the food out of their mouths and the shirts off their backs..
Well done, this can only lead to more free entertainment.
serenity now!
Heh... well, I watch most of the stuff that I do for the cheese. Why else would I watch Star Trek: TOS? What, do you think battle scenes between Kirk and Klingon soldiers to be action-packed?
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I thought it was some newly invented star trek language, to get around the copyrights on Klingon.
Klingon is copyrighted, yes?
although this is still a good tactic.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
I thought "Finnish" was the verb and something called "Star Trek Spoof Top" was the subject.
Posterity, my posterior.
What?
Zero budget?
Well, hollywood has just informed me it cannot be good without a budget in the millions!
Pretty Pictures!
In Soviet Russia, jokes shoot you.
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Ensign: Sir! Klingons are approaching!
Captain: Fire the Twinklers!
Ensign: The... Twinklers? Is it just me, or are these new weapons really gay?
Captain: Ensign! Think progressively. What do you think happens when we bust a Twinkler in their ass?
Ensign: They'll die laughing?
Captain: Exactly! That's why they're so lethal.
Ensign: ...
I'd be much more impressed with the alien technology if it could create earthquakes in new Orleans and hurricanes in Pakistan and Turkey, instead of the other way round!
I do agree totally, but of course I'm sure the reason her name does not appear is because I'm the only one who needs her name and phone number :-).
;-)
(Now I wonder why I didn't get it yet, must be all that spam clogging down the Internet.)
Cheers
USE VERBS IN YOUR HEADLINES!
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Ah, but part of the fun of English-language headlines is that so many words can be misread as verbs. As others have already pointed out, both "spoof" and "top" can be verbs in this headline (though an 's' should probably be added if you're American). Also, "Finnish" can be read as a mistyping of "finish" and treated as a verb, which is a standard pun in some circles.
One of my favorites, from around 15 years ago, was the newspaper headline "American Ships Head to Gulf". I just did a check, by googling for "Ships Head to Gulf", and found that at least one Australian and one Russian have also shipped their heads to the Gulf.
Or maybe I'm misreading them, and these three people shipped someone else's head to the Gulf
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