When I was a kid, closed captioning on TV was an endless source of amusement. Turn on the captioning during any live event and you were guaranteed at least a few chuckles. Nowadays there aren't as many errors as there used to be. But whenever I see something like this
Christmas Mass Closed Caption Fail at Failblog, it makes me grin... yes, it's frustrating when captions go wrong... but you gotta admit it's funny, too!
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| "The deacon sings -- 'The mass has ended. Go in pee.'" |
Here are a few others I found posted online (definitely not G-rated)...
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| "A former fertile lady back at home. Nancy Reagan was" |
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| "Defense. Bitch is out with a foot" |
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| "We get to eat a porn star." | | |
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| "I would have wanted to always Iraq was a cat fight police tell me if there was a cat fight" (From this article about YouTube's auto-caption fails) |
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| "With refried beans cooked in lard and refried penis. Make your own" |
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| "Firefighters to deal with not just the fire with people in the middle of the road ejaculating" |
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| "Heinz, of course, is rubbing against Governor Pat Quinn in the Democratic primary." (From this Flickr post) | | | | | | | |
Also worth a read if you like this kind of thing is the blog post
episode iii, the backstroke of the west. This blogger posted the hilarious subtitles found on a bootleg copy of
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith he bought in Shanghai. It never fails to make me laugh.
Hi there - personal invite for you to join the CCAC also - free! See www.ccaptioning.org and we can link blogs too :-)
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As a caption editor, I must say that these "fails" are both embarrassing and, of course, extremely amusing. :)
ReplyDeletethose are quite hilarious!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't surprise me at all if the House caption was what was actually said! Dr House gets more debauched every series.
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