Chris M. '12 | November 03, 2009
"Train(wreck) of Thought"
Hallo everybody. As it turns out, video editing is a very time intensive project hence (most of) my absence from the blagosphere. BUT I've got something pretty cool in store, so don't give up hope just yet. :-)
BUT I had to share a particular incident with you today as I was walking back from working on psets. I walked by the LSC announcement board (LSC is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was called: "Sin No Mbre". Puzzled, I stared at it:
"Sin No Mbre"
Now I don't speak more than a large burrito worth of spanish, but here's what I thought.
Sin No Mbre = Sin Nombre---> Sin ("number*")----->O/H---->OH--->Two components in liquid rocket fuel--->EXPLOSIVE action.
I can almost guarantee you that's not the logic the advertising commitee went with, but effective nonetheless. I want to see this movie now.
*Nombre is actually "name", numero is number, but whatever I felt like I'd solved the Da Vinci Code before it was so easy Tom Hanks could do it.
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first!!
Posted by: jonimo on November 4, 2009 12:55 AM
hahaha that's funny!!
That would be a cool advertisement.
I go to school next to UCSD and as I was walking past the math building I saw a sign promoting Del Taco (a mexican fast food place) and it had "Del" written with the mathematical symbol del http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del
LOL I thought it was funny :D
Posted by: Su ('14?) on November 4, 2009 12:56 AM
Hallo Chris, that's an insanely good riddle! Keep 'em coming!!
Posted by: Banerjee on November 4, 2009 04:15 AM
Where does the H come from? In 0/H
Posted by: kimd on November 4, 2009 12:10 PM
In Soviet Russia, Rocket launches YOU!!
Posted by: Anonymous on November 4, 2009 03:14 PM
@kimd
Sin (x) = Opposite/Hypotenuse, abbreviated O/H.
Posted by: Chrism on November 4, 2009 03:17 PM
I love the logic used to turn Sin No Mbre into EXPLOSIVE action. :P
Posted by: Lauren on November 4, 2009 08:02 PM
love it learning spanish but "sin" should be in trigonometry. :)
Posted by: joemill on November 5, 2009 10:15 AM
lool thats soo funny!! I looled so much n even rofled! hahahhahahahahhahahahahah
Posted by: Vijaj Sanjeetsingh on November 5, 2009 06:17 PM
"sin" means "without" in spanish. so the movie title meant "without name". that's how awesome my three years of high school spanish has made me. :-P
Posted by: Vinay H. ('14?) on November 5, 2009 09:53 PM
haha,six degrees of seperation between "Sin No Mbre" and explosive action.BRILLIANT THINKING.seriously,MIT rocks.....
Posted by: Rishabh on November 6, 2009 06:10 AM
Posted by: SelfProclaimedPoet on November 7, 2009 05:31 AM
Haha! That's really clever! Your derivation of the title is so much better than its literal translation.
Posted by: Luiz on November 7, 2009 03:22 PM
I'm sorry, I can't resist telling you 'mbre' is obviously a misspelling of 'more'. I'm sure that everybody else thought that was just too obvious to state, but I couldn't resist.
Posted by: Evan Kroske on November 7, 2009 07:24 PM
Actually Evan, you're wrong. The movie is "Sin Nombre" the capatilization of the stylized letter "M" makes it look like a space between "No" and "Mbre". Next time, try resisting until you "obviously" know what you're talking about.
Posted by: Anonymous on November 7, 2009 07:33 PM
You know, with that logic, Sin No Mbre would make a great name for a burrito.
Posted by: Cara on November 10, 2009 06:36 PM
