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Musik-Quiz 55

2009-04-21

Und wieder einmal willkommen zu den neuesten Musik-Bilderrätseln, die Lied- und/oder Bandnamen darstellen. Wie immer gibt’s bei Bedarf Tips in den Kommentaren…

1. Which song title is depicted here?

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Gelöst von symBadisch (und Yjgalla 44 Sekunden später): “White Wedding” von Billy Idol (Text-Video) – der Berliner Ortsteil Wedding in weiß.
Berlin-Karte aus der Wikipedia

2. Welche zwei Liedzeilen aus welchem Lied werden hier dargestellt?

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Gelöst von Julia (und David 37 Sekunden später): Die Zeilen
I can take about an hour on the tower of power
'Long as I gets a little golden shower
aus “Bobby Brown” von Frank Zappa (Live-Video).

3. Welcher Bandname ist das hier?

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Gelöst von Yjgalla: Selig (Video von “Schau Schau”) – eine Ligatur von S und E in Anlehnung an die HTML-Entity vom ß „ß“.

Das war’s, bis nächsten Dienstag!

Starlet

2009-04-16

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An ad on a local ad newspaper (Bayrisches Taferl 16/2009) in normal newspaper size – complete view1 in the top left, the right and lower parts show enlarged details of the red framed areas. (Click to enlarge.)

My congratulations to the winner of the “Least Readable Asterisk Explanation Text” contest!! ;)

Update 17:20: Ha, they even got the same offer on their website – here’s the non-selectable text in default size:

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At least you can read it without problems when zooming in with the browser – it says the usual about the limited time, extras are extra, can’t be combined with other offers, and the copyright of “Doctor’s Associates Inc.”, who own the SUBWAY® brand.

  1. except for the other ads that I blurred, that is [↩]

Projekt 52/15: Contrasts

2009-04-15

This week’s Projekt 52 topic is “contrasts”, and I’m combining it with a convenience food report:

15: Contrasts

Topic 15: Contrasts

A “Kaiserschmarrn” from “Schwaben Speisen” in Fellbach which I recently noticed as a new offer on the supermarket’s chilled shelf1, and I thought I could give it a try. “With fruit compote and vanilla sauce” – there also was another version I didn’t remember –, to be heated in a microwave or pan; I chose the former, since it’s about convenience in such convenience foods (and the sauce can’t even be heated in the same pan as the pancake).

And this one try will be the only one. It’s to be expected, of course, that convenience food never looks as good in reality as it does on the cover, and so this contrast here – bottom left: sealed and cold (and photographed without flash and under different light conditions); center: hot, without foil; right: packaging – is no miracle. I just never came across such a thick dough, cut almost in cubic shapes, being called Kaiserschmarrn, though… but what about the most important part: the taste?

Well, while the (culinarily certainly not top-notch) Kaiserschmarrn that my local butcher’s snack bar offers every few weeks (I presented it last year) literally does deserve my rating “enjoyable”, I can call this Fellbach ready-to-serve Kaiserschmarrn at most “only just edible”, and I certainly won’t buy it again.

Rating: 1 star


  1. quite possible that the entire company is new, given that their web domain they printed on the package still shows the hoster’s default “new internet presence” [↩]