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Ohhhh...interesting.

I just did a rough translation of the caption of the photo, based on that Croatian-English dictionary site I linked to earlier.

KOJA JE OVA RIBA U PRUGASTIM PANTALONAMA? = Who Is This Fish in the Striped Trousers?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm, is there any way Fish could possibly be confused with "two beer queer"?

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Okay, here's my theory: a group of Croatian scientists have come to Zürich for some science conference. They happen to know a fellow Croatian living in Zürich who's promised to host a Christmas party, since it's December. They get inebriated, and at some point the hostess turns up with a record of "Daleka Obaka", a Croatian rock band that was popular when these people were in their teens or twenties. Our tipsy scientists feel a flood of "nostalgija" going through their Croatian souls and start a boisterous dance. At some point two of them sneak into the bedroom for a round of horizontal mambo, something that they'll regret in the morning. This'll entail some intra-faculty tension once they get back home.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, Melton, I think we're making some headway here: I just discovered that one of the CDs that was sitting out (with the CD out of the case) is by the Spanish-language band Aventura, who are from the Dominican Republic.

Amazon

Wikipedia

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

v. strange. Are we absolutely sure they're all Croatian? The "Rudolph the deer" note is still bothering me a bit.

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Those checked trousers are really ugly. Also the girl in red has a coloring book picture of a Disney kitten (from The Aristocats? I can't remember) on the wall behind her. SO either there's kids in the flat or people with a weird Disney fetish.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

How popular are chips and guacamole in Central Europe, really? Is it possible this is a Spanish-themed party?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

they look like that kind of people.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I think they're grad students, from all over Europe. What is that box of metal things that couch man in burgandy-shirt has on his lap?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link

The calendar in the kitchen is still on the November 2004 page. December's not exactly a month you forget to flip the calendar over on.

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I think they're grad students, from all over Europe. What is that box of metal things that couch man in burgandy-shirt has on his lap?

Chocolate confection, I'd say.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link

The opening page does say "HRuCH Christmas party, 11.12.04., Zurich", so I guess someone'd just forgot the calendar.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, I think it's an adult who's an Aristocats fan, as this bedroom has Aristocats posters in, and doesn't look like a kid's room.

Does anyone know where the map on the right hand wall is of? Could it be... Spain?

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

The map is on the door, rather.

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link

"Daleka obala" = something like "faraway shore." I wonder if this is a joke having to do with the fish comment, i.e. the girl who looks like a fish is nostalgic for the faraway water she's from.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

No no, "Daleka Obala" is a band, I even linked their LP cover.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Of course it could be a joke too, based on the band name.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, I must've missed that: I thought you made that up about them being a band.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Are we absolutely sure they're all Croatian? The "Rudolph the deer" note is still bothering me a bit.

Well, a lot of scientists have to use English as part of their work, and the fact that it is written as "Rudolph the deer" and not "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer" suggests that English is probably not the first language of whoever wrote it. Possibly there are a couple of different nationalities, and English was a good common language for them to use? Or maybe they just wanted to test their skills in a 'fun' way, like big old nerds.

― emil.y (emil.y), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I agree with all of that, Emily. Can anyone see any more scraps of paper lying about the flat?

The map is clearly Croatia:

http://blackzarak.co.uk/adi/upload/upload_files/map.jpg http://www.map-of-croatia.co.uk/maps/Large-map-of-croatia-400.gif

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

One of the captions is "U ocekivanju gostiju iz Lausanne".

The last three words are "guests from Lausanne". Lausanne is in Switzerland, and this is from the contact page of their site:

Branimir Lukic, dipl. ing. fizike
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausane (EPFL)
Lausane, Switzerland

Could Branimir be one of the guests at the party?

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link

This probably isn't enlightening at all, but I translated the rest of the captions:

Uzurbane pripeme = Busily preparing

U ocekivanju gostiju iz Lausanne = Expecting guests from Lausanne

Svi su se kostimirali 1= Everyone is dressed up 1

Hmm... Apple martini ili cista vodka? = Hmm... Apple martini or neat vodka?

Glavni glumci bozicnog igrokaza = Lead actress in the Christmas play

Hit veceri: bajadere = A quick dinner: bajadere (Croatian chocolate)

Vecera i druzenje = Dinner and intimacy

Svi su se kostimirali 2= Everyone is dressed up 2

Ples iza ponoci = Dancing after midnight

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

This is Branimir Lukic:

http://connect.znanost.org/style/branimir.jpg http://www.astro.hr/s3/img/leader01.jpg http://www.student.hr/izbori2002/zg/dokumenti/slike/studentski.JPG

Doesn't look like any of the gostiju.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha, you're googling too?

What about this one? She's on the contact page too, and lives in Zurich.

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 6 February 2006 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I missed off the most important part. She's from Croatia.

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 6 February 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Isn't she the red skirted lady?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 6 February 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I think so! But why is she only in the one picture?

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 6 February 2006 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link

First to go in some kind of homicidal, Slavic elimidate?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 6 February 2006 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link

The caption for this photo should read: "What in Caucasia are these people doing?"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 6 February 2006 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link

This died too soon.

― Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 07:36 (eighteen years ago) link

It was worth it for the little bit of Croatian I learned.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

If were done with the Croatians, what would you make of this pic:

http://www.blanko.oulu.fi/kuva-albumi/albums/Kroketti2002/IMG_1989.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Whoops, sorry. I didn't know it would turn out that big.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

that's what she said

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG Sterling I was going to make that same joke.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't believe this died just when we were sort of finding out who these people were.

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link

these people are much more interesting than Wayne & Co.

also, I'd hit it.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link

What, that pinata?

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Gabbneb OTM. Sure, they don't have myspace pages, but I'll wager at least one of them has been involved in cannibalism at some point in their life.

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 10:28 (eighteen years ago) link

surely captain redface is getting a handjob tonight.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

they are in their sexual prime

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

slow jamz OTM. So gonna happen.

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link

redface = niko. I like him. He deserves.

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 9 February 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

so, what's the photo for this week?

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/ktto/Tiedotus/Kgalleria/ensimiitti2003/images/P1010026.JPG

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link

That should get you somewhere.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

no place i particularly want to go

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

http://nosamieslesstars.com/images/mariah-homeless.jpg

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

The 'MariahDaily.com' bit is a nice touch.

― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

mmmmmm, you smell like stores

― ath (ath), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

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