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are those ferrero-rocher or copper-coated garlic cloves? and is that a frosted mickey mouse cup?

― ath (ath), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Whether or not she's the hostess, I'd say the lady in the pink dress is kinda hot, no? All in all these people seem a bit too cool to be natural scientists, I bet they're from the faculty of social science or the humanities. What do you think?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

The problem with that top pic is that the people can easily be paired off with extra ladies to spare, its so gonna happen.

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

"pink shirt"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Hell, they were probably paired off before they got there. Wtf, roxy, wtf?

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

These threads have already jumped the shark.

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh come on, Roxy just used the old thread title to make this one more recognizable.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

These threads have already jumped the shark.

they did a long time ago... still, i won't complain. it's good to fill a boring day at the office !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

That piece of paper on the table says "RUDOLPH THE DEER" on it.

Sure, we know it's a Christmas party, and they're probably playing a game. But why are they writing in English?

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

CDs in the apartment:

Leonard Cohen, Dear Heather
The Temptations, For Lovers Only

something by John Coltrane
something by Take That
something called Blueberry Hill (Fats Domino?)
something by a band called "L'Aventura" ??

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, I take back the Coltrane one: it's really blurry, but for a second it looked like it said John Coltrane on the spine.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I agree that these threads jumped the shark the moment we found diehl in iraq's site and the "other photos". Still, I have a public to please. The title is 100% an homage to the orig. thread, and has nothing to do with today's photo.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't agree with that, necessarily. I wrote here about the first "so not gonna happen."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sure that one of those CDs says Popol Vuh. Really it does.

― emil.y (emil.y), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry, Roxy, but that's an "A" after the supposed "V".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

i feel famous jaymc!

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

(xxp) I know the one you're talking about. I spent far too long trying to figure that out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Roxy, no one reads my blog. ;)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

haw

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link

On the first pic in the gallery there are some photos on the frigde door, depicting a dog and a woman (girl?), which would suggest this is indeed someone's flat. The photos seem to be taken somewhere else though.

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

Also, there's a postcard on the kitchen cupboard door which seems to say "The Phantom of the Opera", or am I seeing it wrong?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

And below the pics on fridge door there's a piece of paper that says "Croatia", which is perhaps somewhat weird if this pic takes place in Zürich. Are they partying at some Croatian expat's flat?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, i think we've pretty much established that it's a flat

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, but who owns it?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

There are also some Disney toys on the radiator, which would suggest there are kids living in the flat as well.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

we dont know!!!

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

It's nice to know that Croatians in Switzerland eat guacamole.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

One of the books on the dresser is a Spanish dictionary.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Dude, you just scooped me on that: I was about to say the exact same thing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Perhaps this explains their love for guacamole!

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

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.

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

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