Sat 8 Apr 2006
* We need your help for an upcoming special episode, so git thinkin!
* Yet another iPod sex toy. Is anyone buying these things?
* Dirty Poms and inconvenient plumbing.
* The bad old days before Italian immigrants brought good coffee to Australia.
* And some constructive criticism re: pornographic reality TV in a new Smut Report.
April 9th, 2006 at 1:19 am
In the Swedish version of the Muppets (”Mupparna”) they still call him the swedish chef, but since he’s obviously not speaking real swedish, the swedes imagine him as speaking norwegian or danish.
April 9th, 2006 at 1:52 am
Kings Island is the Hanna Barbera theme park you are talking about. Its a good time.
April 9th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Zan was chastising me for my British-People-Don’t-Wash remarks, so I would like to clarify that I have known many fine clean British people.
That is all.
Jana
April 9th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
The Scandinavian language that … Tvindy?… spoke was Danish. He said: “Hej hej, det er [name]. Jeg er her nu. GÃ¥r det godt? Jeg taler dansk, men jeg kan ikke tale godt dansk. København er en by” + a last bit that was impossible to hear. It would translate into: “Hi there, this is [name]. I am here now. How are you doing? I speak Danish but I don’t speak it well. Copenhagen is a city”.
It was better than the German bit by far, but still a bit funny around the edges. No wonder; Danish has weird grammar and word order, and the pronounciation is everything but straightforward.
–From a Danish listener of Bobsyeruncle and PKandJ.
April 10th, 2006 at 9:57 am
Dane, wow! I’m thrilled that my Danish was so intelligible. The only part where I wasn’t clear was when I said “Har du det godt?” which you heard as “GÃ¥r det godt?”, which is actually a better choice. It’s too bad that Zan only played the first part of each message, since all the truly entertaining remarks were in the second halves. But of course, he had no way of knowing that.
April 10th, 2006 at 10:59 am
“They probably think Swedish sounds stupid too…”? Easy on the Swedes, mate!
April 10th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
I’d like to point out that we never said anybody sounded stupid. Jana might have suggested that the English are a bunch of filthy misanthropes, but that’s completely different.
April 10th, 2006 at 10:06 pm
May I suggest a Cleanliness Challenge: why don’t we just compare national statistics on annual per-capita soap consumption? Are you up for that? Any other countries care to join in?
By the way, sewing people into their underclothes for a whole season was something the US pioneers did. And yes, a few people in the deprived north of the UK did once keep coal in their new baths, but this a thing of the distant past (before 1930). In fact, almost no-one burns coal in the home in the UK as fuel anymore, unless it is for decorative fires. Nowadays, coal wouldn’t be allowed onto sink estates - no-one would trust the asbos not to pelt their neighbours’ children with it!
Oh God, here we go again. Define:
“Sink estate”: We don’t have trailers for trash in the UK, but we do have equivalent soulless housing estates run by local authorities that the dregs of society sink down to.
“Asbo”: A thuggish yob. Someone with an Anti Social Behaviour Order - a court order placed on people who repeatedly behave so badly they have to be restrained by law.
April 11th, 2006 at 6:25 am
Like your show, heard about it (whereelse) from the PK & J show, My favorite Hero is the Flash!!!!
April 13th, 2006 at 11:05 am
hey this is colzy from canada, i sent you a voicemail but im wondering since its a what would uncle bob do you might not play it? i hope you do but if not tell me and i’ll leave another voicemail lol byeee
April 15th, 2006 at 11:50 am
Hi Colzy,
We’ve got a WWUBD voicemail and a greeting voicemail. We’ll play the second one on the next show, and save the WWUBD for the next WWUBD segment.
Cheers,
Zan.
April 16th, 2006 at 4:29 am
thanks alot, if i sound alright i’ll send some more voicemails, i dont know what about but i’ll find something