... but it's all Greek to me:
Well, no... it's not. Not really.
You can see ALL the various Wiki-languages here, just in case you're wondering what the Arabs, Czechs, Japanese, and other people found interesting this past year. And there's this supporting article, which included this lil blurb:
Well, no... it's not. Not really.
You can see ALL the various Wiki-languages here, just in case you're wondering what the Arabs, Czechs, Japanese, and other people found interesting this past year. And there's this supporting article, which included this lil blurb:
The English-speaking world is drawn to technology, entertainment, and death. Facebook is the most viewed page with 32.6 million views, and more than 25 million people looked up “Deaths in 2012.” Half of the top ten centered around blockbuster films, an English-Irish boy band, and Fifty Shades of Grey.
Bad American television is apparently a significant point of interest to Europeans. Top pages in Spanish, German, French and Italian include How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, and Game of Thrones (although I personally consider Game of Thrones to be riveting television.) One Direction, the aforementioned English-Irish boy band, popped up on just about every European language list. I have yet to decide if my complete and total ignorance of this group is an embarrassing sign of age, or a testament to maturity. Let’s go with the latter.
Lana Del Ray?
ReplyDeleteThat was my one.
Because I had no idea who she was.
Now I forgot.
But I don't care.
Nope. Mine was Mitt Romney's page. (sigh)
DeleteWhere's the list of most hits on American Wikipedia?
ReplyDeleteIvan. Buddy. Get with the PROGRAM, you troglodyte! There's no difference between Murcans, Brits, Canucks, Aussies, and Kiwis... we're ALL part o' one big, happy, and GLOBAL Wikisphere. Or so they say.
DeleteWell, shoot, I'm disappointed. My blog isn't in the top 10? Oh, wait a minute. Maybe it IS in the Greek top 10!
ReplyDeleteYo Suldog, maybe it's in the Irish-Jewish American wiki list. Maybe under Soldog, as in Solomon? A wild guess, bubala!
Delete@Sarge: Heh.
Delete"...but it's all Greek to me."
ReplyDeleteLOL. The first night I was ever in Athens was when being ferried down to Incirlik AFB, Turkey as replacement as replacement aircrews for the other two flights who were sitting nuclear alert there as part of the UK Wings NATO commitment (We stopped in Athens to RON--remain overnite--instead of one-hopping it as France wouldn't let us overfly and so had to go the long-way round thru Spain.) At that time (1970) George Peppard had just come out with a spy thriller called The Executioner in which the movie features him meeting an operative at this Greek restaurant (whose name I can't remember even tho I ate there) perched on a rocky out-cropping with outdoor patio seating providing a fantastic view of the night-time spot-lit Acropolis/Parthanon looming, above. Natch THAT was the restaurant we all wanted to eat at SO....off we went in a party of eight for dinner that night. Well, as I was the Senior Officer (A Capt all of age 26, lol, but all the rest just happened to be 2nd Lts fresh out of flt school or 1/lts) Thus I was the "Navigator" for the evening, but this Nav got lost--repeatedly. The natives were restless and their stomachs were growling: "What's the deal, are we going to wander all night or should we hit the nearest place?" I COULDN'T miss the situational opportunity of a lifetime. I threw up my hands, exasperatedly gestured towards all the store-front and street signs, and said: "These signs, it's all so confusing--it all looks like Greek to me!" LOL! Several immediately lunged for my throat only to be constrained by the others with the greatest of difficulty. LOL!!! I just COULDN'T resist..
Heh. I would've done the same thing... you seize those opportunities when life puts 'em on yer platter. Great story!
DeletePS: Hell, I think I was only 25 at the time--"Senior Officer" indeed, lol..
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