Sorry to go on, and on, and on, but a headline we saw today defied belief… ‘Five Dead at Amsterdam Airport; Adi Mutu Can’t Fly to Amsterdam’. It appears on the website of www.sport.ro, a sports broadcaster, Sport.ro (known as ‘No Sport.ro’ for the fact that it shows very little actual sport), owned by Pro [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
Bram Stocker’s Dracula
We never did much rate Bram Stoker’s book Dracula, so we are keen to see if Bram Stocker’s is any better. Oh yes, in a glorious typo moment, according to a TV advert Romanian daily Adevarul is giving away a copy of Bram Stocker’s Dracula tomorrow. And from what we can tell, it looks like [...]
Bucharest is Affordable Paradise
Another wonderful spoof news report from The Onion. Recognise the building in the background?
Romanian TV News Cliches
Ever noticed (those of you who watch and understand Romanian TV news that is) how many stock phrases there are? How many cliches? There are some subjects where you simply know exactly what kind of thing the presenter will say. Here are a just a few we’ve been collecting (with apologies for any spelling/grammatical errors. [...]
Madonna in Bucharest. An offer we can refuse
Tickets to the much heralded Madonna concert in Bucharest, to be held in Parcul Izvor on August 26th, went on sale yesterday. Not general sale, of course. Oh no. Only for clients of Vodafone. (We know all this because we got SMS Spam from Vodafone telling us). So there’s one reason we do not want [...]