I don’t want this to turn into a discussion about bullfighting; my point is, is there any other way to be killed?
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Anyone else want to share similar gaffes they’ve heard on a live broadcast of any kind?
Maybe the newscaster though Barrio was in the fetal position when he got gutted? Fetally killed.
Both sports comentary and medical reports can be funny, even when it’s not a gaffe. Reports on the bullruns distinguish between contusión por pisotón and contusión por pisadas: both can be translated as “bruises due to being stepped-on”, so people unfamiliar with the slang are very confused when they encounter them by the first time. The first one means the runner got stepped on by the bull; the second one, by other runners.
Another one: what Bravo suffered was herida por asta de toro. He was wounded by a bull’s horn. Now, while it is true that there are multiple types of horned animals that one can be wounded by, when the wound took place in a bullfighting arena the detail is kind of redundantly from the redundancy department. A related expression: people who appear to be scared of life itself are said to be afraid to die por asta de burro, from being wounded by a donkey’s horns.
Latin Americans find the Spanish custom to double-state adress of movement hilarious. Baja aquí abajo: come-down here down. Vente pacá: come-here to here. And so forth. We trot out our best offended hidalgo look and explain that it’s not redundant, it’s emphatic (theatrical aside to the other Spaniards, still within hearing of the Latin Americans: do you guys think they believed me?).
He was not only fatally killed. He was fatally killed to death.
He’s just pinin’ for the fjords.
So you’re saying, he’s not only merely dead, he’s really most sincerely dead?
rotfl!
He has ceased to be! 'E’s expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed 'im to the perch 'e’d be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E’s off the twig! 'E’s kicked the bucket, 'e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!!
Someone probably dumbed it down for the masses as this is the way AP put it out:
AP’s reporting is accurate if you only count “in the ring” as the arena itself. José Eslava Cáceres “Pepe Cáceres” (sword) died in July of 1987 from wounds incurred in the arena, Antonio González Gordon “Campeño” (banderillero - the guy with the short spears) died in May of 1988 again from wounds incurred in the arena. They did not literally die in the ring, but they still were killed by the bulls they were fighting.
I’ve always thought it redundant to hear of someone interviewing the survivors of some catastrophe; who the hell else would they interview? An interview with someone who didn’t survive would be much more newsworthy.
Not a headline but I did see a packet of potato crisps (spicy sweet chili sauce flavour!) proudly emblazoned with…
“made from real ingredients”
You know, just to distinguish it from all those snack products fashioned from anti-matter and dark energy.
“Schroedingers snacks present QUANTUM PUFFS, in all new collapsed wave function, superpositioned cat or square root of -1 flavours!”
While driving to work the other morning I heard a reporter on HLN breathlessly reporting on Sarah Silverman’s brush with death. “She had…EPIGLOTTIS!”
Holy crap, we’d better rush en masse to the emergency room, because we’ve all got that.
*the actual condition was epiglottitis.
I was driving in the woods the other day and saw a bunch of forest roads with “No unauthorized vehicles” marked on them. I understand what they’re saying, of course, but you can’t actually drive on ANY road with a vehicle unauthorized to drive on that road…that’s what “unauthorized” means.
More snarkily, I was commenting to a friend that I was trying to get a picture of the Milky Way. The soon-to-be-ex friend, of course, said “aren’t all your pictures of the Milky Way?”
It is worse than that.
He was seriously and permanently fatally killed to death.
I once heard a local TV weathercaster describe the weather as “unseasonable for this time of year.”
One that struck me was from a museum newsletter article about a pre-Columbian Peruvian exhibit. The author wrote something about a display of idols “depicting their imaginary gods …”. In my mind I was thinking “there’s another kind?” .
To some people, yes.
How about using “real people” in weight-loss ads?
As opposed to fake people?
Oh, I know what they mean - private citizens vs. celebrities. Guess what. Celebrities are real people too. :smack: :rolleyes:
Well consider all those food packages that list “natural and artificial flavors”. What other kinds of flavors are left?
My wife watched a show on the History Channel yesterday about the guys who escaped from Alcatraz in the 1960’s. I overheard when they were talking about a brother of one of the escapees and mentioned that he had been “electrocuted to death”. I had to ask my wife, “Is there any other way to be electrocuted?”.