{"id":5269,"date":"2010-02-21T15:41:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T20:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2010-02-21T15:41:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T20:41:02","slug":"weirdness-on-a-pirate-dvd-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/21\/weirdness-on-a-pirate-dvd-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"weirdness on a pirate dvd cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moat of the DVDs at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontopubliclibrary.ca\/\"> Toronto Public Library<\/a> sale yesterday were donations that didn&#8217;t quite make it to circulation. <a href=\"http:\/\/c-raine.com\/\">Catherine<\/a> picked up a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0369735\/\">Monster in Law<\/a>, which looks very professional at first glance:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mutant-monster_in_law.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5271 aligncenter\" title=\"mutant-monster_in_law-small\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mutant-monster_in_law-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mutant-monster_in_law-small.jpg 400w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mutant-monster_in_law-small-160x105.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mutant-monster_in_law-small-320x211.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Look a little closer, and all is not well.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The subheading on the front cover is in German, despite the English packaging: &#8220;Sie traf perfekten Mann. Dann traf sie seine Mutter&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The printed credits are for <a title=\"also known as The Last Dragon (2004)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0433367\/\">Dragon&#8217;s World: A Fantasy Made Real<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The URL for the movie is for <a title=\"Directed by Francis Lawrence.  With Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf. Based on the DC\/Vertigo comic book Hellblazer and written by Kevin Brodbin, Mark Bomback and Frank Capello, Constantine tells the story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine (Keanu Reeves), who has literally been to hell and back. Visit IMDb for Photos, Showtimes, Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments, Discussions, Taglines, Trailers, Posters, Fan Sites\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0360486\/\">Constantine<\/a>, as is the barcode<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t a clue what this is supposed to mean: <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/what.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5272\" title=\"what\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/what.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"28\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/what.png 193w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/what-160x23.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The DVD inside is marked DVD-9 with Chinese characters under the title.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moat of the DVDs at the Toronto Public Library sale yesterday were donations that didn&#8217;t quite make it to circulation. Catherine picked up a copy of Monster in Law, which looks very professional at first glance: Look a little closer, and all is not well. The subheading on the front cover is in German, despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1080,2107,2106],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-dvd","tag-eh","tag-pirate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1mZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5273,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}