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

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

Hallo Chris, that's an insanely good riddle! Keep 'em coming!!

Posted by: Banerjee on November 4, 2009

Where does the H come from? In 0/H

Posted by: kimd on November 4, 2009

In Soviet Russia, Rocket launches YOU!!

Posted by: 0 on November 4, 2009

@kimd

Sin (x) = Opposite/Hypotenuse, abbreviated O/H.

Posted by: Chrism on November 4, 2009

I love the logic used to turn Sin No Mbre into EXPLOSIVE action.

Posted by: Lauren on November 4, 2009

love it learning spanish but "sin" should be in trigonometry.

Posted by: joemill on November 5, 2009

lool thats soo funny!! I looled so much n even rofled! hahahhahahahahhahahahahah

Posted by: Vijaj Sanjeetsingh on November 5, 2009

"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.

Posted by: Vinay H. ('14?) on November 5, 2009

haha,six degrees of seperation between "Sin No Mbre" and explosive action.BRILLIANT THINKING.seriously,MIT rocks.....

Posted by: Rishabh on November 6, 2009

Like potassium reacting with water.

Posted by: SelfProclaimedPoet on November 7, 2009

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

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

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.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127715/

Posted by: 0 on November 7, 2009

You know, with that logic, Sin No Mbre would make a great name for a burrito.

Posted by: Cara on November 10, 2009

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