Great manes do from little whiskers grow, or: Richard Armitage beard dreams

Have you seen this picture before? It shows up every now and then on a list of mistranslated signs where someone’s translating from Chinese into English. I saw it most recently here. And laughed again, because the translation of idiomatic expressions on international signs is one of the funniest things ever. This picture — which could have said “Keep Off the Grass,” the usual formulation in the U.S. — is just plain sweet. (It turns out that its provenance from the Chinese is uncertain, as this fascinating post from the Language Log reveals, because the Chinese text doesn’t make a lot of sense. Some kind of back translation may be involved.)

But its sweetness made me think of this cap:

Richard Armitage as Lucas North in Spooks 8.5. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com

And this:

Richard Armitage as Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood 3.10. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com

And this:

Richard Armitage as Lee Preston in Cold Feet. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com

And who could forget this one:

Richard Armitage as John Porter in Strike Back 1.3. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com

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PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB. RICHARD ARMITAGE’S BEARD IS DREAMING …

(ACTUALLY I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT MEANS. BUT IT SOUNDS GOOD.)

~ by Servetus on September 13, 2013.