Closed Captioning...

[blume357]

I was going to write a post about how sometimes it messes up and seems to 'make up stuff' then I rewound and watched and listened to the opening theme song of All In The Family.... I always thought the last line was:

"Gezz we aught to celabrate"

What it actually was:

"Gee our old Le Salle ran great......"

Go figure.... learn something new every day... whether it is worth anything or not.....

 

[Fox Mike]

So what you are saying is that you have a 'defective listener'. :roll: I know how that is as I also have a 'listener' problem. What sounds like one thing is actually something all together different. My wife rolls her eyes at some of the things I 'think' she says.

 

[Colonialgirl]

ERR; :roll: :roll:

Let me turn on my hearing aids or turn them up a notch.

That's my response to "Aren't you listening" asked in a very loud voice. :shock: :shock:

:wink: :wink: :mrgreen:

 

[Jimbo357mag]

You are watching 'All In The Family' with closed captioning on?
Blume you need to get out a little more.
What's next, 'Green Acres'?

 

[Ale-8(1)]

From Wikipedia . . .

"LaSalle was an American brand of luxury automobiles manufactured and marketed by General Motors' Cadillac division from 1927 through 1940. Alfred P. Sloan developed the concept for LaSalle and certain other General Motors' marques in order to fill pricing gaps he perceived in the General Motors product portfolio. Sloan created LaSalle as a companion marque for Cadillac. LaSalle automobiles were manufactured by Cadillac, but were priced lower than Cadillac-branded automobiles and were marketed as the second-most prestigious marque in the General Motors portfolio."

"In the 1970s television show All In The Family, Archie and Edith Bunker include the lyrics, "Gee, our old LaSalle ran great," in the program's opening theme song, "Those Were the Days."

 

[wwb]

Probably the most misquoted line in music..... from Jimi Hendrix and "Purple Haze":

".... 'scuse me while I kiss the sky" somehow becomes "....'scuse me while I kiss this guy"

 

[Conservative]

"Green Acres" is still one of my favorites, but then so is "Gunsmoke".

My favorite wasn't Matt Dillon, but Festus.

 

[5of7]

I have a hearing problem, as most old folks do, so I usually use closed captioning to read the words that I can't quite discern.

The problem is that closed captioning often seems to miss the same words I do.

 

[vito]

I bought a speaker (called TV Ears)to use with the TV that supposedly amplifies the frequency of speech sounds as opposed to all the sound, and it does seem to help me understand dialogue on TV, especially for live TV where the closed captioning lags several seconds behind. The speaker also allows me to plug in earphones so I can listen at a volume that is too loud for my wife. But when it comes to misunderstanding lyrics to songs, it affects most of us, not just the hard of hearing.

 

[blume357]

My wife and I like British mysteries and a lot of those you have to have closed captioning just to understand what them dern limeys are saying... I usually have a tv on in my office in the morning while I'm doing this forum leading into paper work for the day... and I also have closed caption turned on on it.... I pretty much only watch re-runs and most of those I record so I can fast forward through the damn commercials...

And one of those is also Green Acres! Those 70's sit coms had great theme songs.

 

[pisgah]

For 30 years, my aunt thought the Dave Clark Five's "Catch Us If You Can" was --- "Ketchup In A Can"...

 

[steveodtw]

One of my TV pet peeves regards hearing. It seems nowadays the hallmark of fine dramatic acting is to speak softly, so I'm constantly hiking up the volume. That's when the commercials come on and blast you out of your socks. I'm surprised I haven't burnt out the volume control switch on my remote.
Of course, a little has to do with being a Senior Shooter. My favorite word is now "What?".

 

[SAJohn]

That Le Salle part of the song was so poorly recorded that it created many guesses as to what the words where. So much so that, in later years, they rerecorded it with high emphasis on clear pronunciation.

"Louie, Louie" takes the cake for impossible lyrics.

 

[caryc]

"Green Acres" is still one of my favorites, but then so is "Gunsmoke".

My favorite wasn't Matt Dillon, but Festus.

I agree but you have to add Doc to Festus for the pair.

 

[caryc]

That Le Salle part of the song was so poorly recorded that it created many guesses as to what the words where. So much so that, in later years, they rerecorded it with high emphasis on clear pronunciation.

"Louie, Louie" takes the cake for impossible lyrics.

I always knew exactly what that line was. But then, I knew a guy that had a beautifully restored 1937 LaSalle. Man, that was a nice car. That was back in about 1958.

 

[wwb]

"Green Acres" is still one of my favorites, but then so is "Gunsmoke".

My favorite wasn't Matt Dillon, but Festus.

So then.... on "Green Acres" your favorite was who - the pig? And for the life of me, I can't remember the pig's name.

 

[gunzo]

Arnold Ziffle

 

[olcop]

What?
olcop

 

[Jimbo357mag]

What?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Ziffel
"Arnold is a pig of the Chester White breed, but he is treated as the "son" of Fred and Doris Ziffel, who don't have any human children. Everyone in Hooterville (besides Oliver Douglas) accepts this without question."

 

[Fox Mike]

One of my TV pet peeves regards hearing. It seems nowadays the hallmark of fine dramatic acting is to speak softly, so I'm constantly hiking up the volume. That's when the commercials come on and blast you out of your socks. I'm surprised I haven't burnt out the volume control switch on my remote.

That and they seem to HAVE to play music over the voice which makes it even harder to hear AND understand.