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I guess only in Denmark would there be such a sign.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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You'll see them in Norway, too.
The "humorous" part is of course based on taking a word in one language to be interpreted according to a different language. What you see on the internet is usually when that 'different' language is American (/English). USAians rarely realize that we can get just as good a laugh from American terms interpreted in a non-American (/English) language. The joke is the same, the only the audience is usually smaller.
(Do you ask for an example? One Norwegian newspaper presented the national team of female gymnastics as 'Norgest mest fitte jenter' - Norway's most fit girls. Problem is that 'fitte' is a rather vulgar term for c*nt.)
'Time' means 'hour', both in Danish and Norwegian. I guess a lot of English speakers never realized that a 'whore' is a woman that you have for one 'hour'.
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Languages are funny. So does 2 timer mean 2 hour?
Joke: Horny man who was so drunk he spent all night looking for a warehouse.
True Story: A Chinese friend of mine from college told me about the time he went crazy studying when he heard his statistic professor said on a Wednesday that the final exam would be next Friday. He stayed up all night Thursday studying for it only to find out Friday there was no exam. The phrase in American English "next Friday" does not mean "this Friday" but refers to the Friday in the next week, or as we would say "Friday next". Needless to say he aced the exam.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Yes, 2 timer is 2 hour (in this case: max parking time).
"Next Friday" is a problem in Norwegian as well. When, exactly, does it jump one week ahead? Say, if your visit a friend one weekend, leaving him very late Sunday night, wishing your friend welcome to visit your home next Friday. Five days later your house in a mess, not prepared for guests - it was past midnight Sunday night (i.e. very early Monday morning) when made your invitation, so you expected him to arrive twelve days later ...
Informally, "next Wednesday" is usually understood as "Wednesday next week", even on a Thursday or Friday. Problems (usually) arise only if you refer to next so-and-so weekday late in the weekend (as suggested above). But don't rely 100% on it - there are people who like to argue differently. (A significant fraction of those people also insist that we celebrated the new millennium one year early; it didn't really start until year 2001.)
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Interesting that Norwegian language is similar in that way. Time is important component of English.
I had an Aunt in Minnesota who spoke Norwegian (her parents were from Norway).
For Christmas, she made a Norwegian fish dish called lutefisk.
When she was preparing it, one could not stay in the kitchen because of the smell.
But I ate it with warm butter. I liked it. My cousins, not so much.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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It's been a few years since I last read the Expanse books, but I've just started working through them again ... and it's like I never read them before.
Why? Because I've watched the TV series so many times.
And it's weird: the TV series is better than the books; it tells a better story than the books it is based on.
Don't get me wrong: they both tell the same core story, feature the same core people, the same locations, ships, ... they are both excellent in different ways.
But the TV series does a better job, and I've never seen that before that I can remember - normally the tv series / movie of the book(s) is a faint echo of the "real thing": think about the Ender books and compare them to the Enders Game movie. 
And I think it's because the story tellers got the chance to rewrite them with the benefit of hindsight; knowing how the story was going to unfold, how the characters would evolve.
Anyone think of another book that has happened to? Because I can't.
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The third Jason Bourne book.
The first book was better than the movie. The second book/move was about the same.
The third movie was way better than the book.
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Good one - and that reminded me of Reacher, where the TV series was better than the book it was based on. The movies wiped it from my mind quite effectively ... 
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It's that silly bloody belter accent!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
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I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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You've clearly never been to Wales ...
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My experience: If I ask someone under 35, "Have you read the book so-and-so?", 95% replies "I've seen the movie!", or the title is completely unknown to them (even books in the 'world literature' class) - I am of course talking about novels that have been made into movies.
And (this is even more to worry about): If I raise the age limit to 55, at least 80% give the same answer, "I've seen the movie!", or don't know it at all. If you want to hear "No, I haven't read it yet, but I sure would like to. Thanks for reminding me of it!", then your safest bet is to ask someone in their sixties or above.
I am referring to Norwegian culture. A generation ago, we shook our heads over US kids who never learned to read well, because they got all their essential information through the TV set. Nowadays, we have become the same way over here. I believe that kids actually learn to read fairly well in school, but as soon as they can 'get away from it', as young adults, they completely stop reading. They read what they have to read, such as university textbooks, but any sort of 'unnecessary' reading, such as novels, is dropped completely by all but those who consider themselves 'highly intellectual' persons. The rest wait for the movie to come out.
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We had "literature". We read comic books and Mad Magazine. There was also Classic Comics: Crime and Punishment; All Quiet on the Western Front ... in all their graphic details.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Stanley Kubrick mosdef comes to mind!
The Shining is a movie that surely challenges the book, even if it has been debated. As for 2001, I cannot claim it strongly, as I do not remember the book, I guess that opinions are split there too.
And Agatha Cristie is boring as elephant, but some adaptations are entertainin'
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Check out the movie Kremlin Letters 1970 based on the book of the same name. Never read the book, but I should.
True the story is dated, but the actors and story are engrossing. Remember Paladin with Richard Boone. He is such a good character actor. Everyone is good. John Huston is great director. The Kremlin Letter (1970) - IMDb[^]
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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I am hoping the Stargate sequence of "2001" will be redone w/ modern technology as per "Contact" which were quite impressive as I found them to be a disappointment even at my then young age at first release. I suggested this to Roger Ebert he was kind enough to write back scoffing at the idea.
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I would think that the word "disappointment" means that you came inte the cinema with very high expectations.
The first time, as young, with blank expectations, I found that sequence just confusing. Then, much, much, later I found it mind-blowing. Not technically, but emotionally.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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If I may branch a bit re/ movies/books my big disappointment in life is one of my favorite books one I have read numerous times i.e. to wit "The Princess Bride" and believe the section describing the creation of the six fingered sword is the reason the English language was invented was made into a very disappointing film one for children and Mandy Patinkin I have no tolerance of though the entire film is mis-cast.
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The Princess Bride. Absolutely a horrible book. It was a fantastic movie. It is easily one of my top 5 movies of all time.
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OriginalGriff wrote: And I think it's because the story tellers got the chance to rewrite them with the benefit of hindsight; knowing how the story was going to unfold, how the characters would evolve.
Reading this, the first thought that came to mind is, HBO should've waited for GRRM to actually finish his book series before starting production of Game of Thrones...
I mean...most people agree the first few seasons, which were based on completed material, were pretty good. It's once they caught up with the books and went into unchartered territory that it all went seriously downhill...
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I failed on this one! I knew pretty exactly, where on the globe we were. But the country name just did not materialise.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I had a slight advantage. Many years ago my wife and son spent time there for a Church mission event. After two guesses that was the only place that fit the basic shape.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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So it can be fun without an atlas to!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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