February 7, 2007
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Hook me up, Frankie, round 3!
It’s that time of the year again, subbers and stalkers. With V. Day coming around the corner it’s the 3rd annual Hook me up, Frankie! contest for one lucky wahine to win free premium! Details to follow at the end of today’s post!
Lost in Translation
Having spent all of my graduate and beyond edumacation in big cities on the wesssaayyiiiide of the country and #1 place in the world (aka Hawaii) I’ve had my share of interactions with people who no speaku engrishu. Here was one the other day…
F.Bunch: Hi, Ms. XXX
LW (Latino woman): [Nods and smiles]
F.Bunch: Your regular doctors asked me to see you, como se siente?
LW: Bien
F.Bunch: Respire bien?
LW: Bien
F.Bunch: Tienes dolor?
LW: Gdwognoispeormprogpskgmpthknd;sdjsoe;roignfgigd;gohisn;ognd
F.Bunch: uh….
LW: Hdfosorfngsotigsepogsoigsnodifjbsdpofgnafbnslsdfindibnodfibnsd
F.Bunch: uh…..
LW: Jdjfabidfjgsalsiduusliufalsdiuhldiughsldfiuhaliufhldiufhzlfiuhldiuh
F.Bunch: uh….sorry, no hablo espanol.
LW:
HAHAHA!
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, trying to speak a foreign language to someone for whom it’s a native language is like talking to the girl in da club with Bambi eyes…you better be ready to roll big or you’re going to find yourself mumbling like an eeediot.
You’d think that having a translator helps, but sometimes they just make things worse.
Example #1:
My old clinic attending when I was a rez told me that one of his favorite encounters was when he asked what the patient was treated with in China. After a long and heated conversation between the translator and the patient, the translator responded, “he said, ‘take 2 blind dogs, make soup and drink.’ ” To this day I still don’t know if he got wok’d by 2 yellow men pranking the white doctor.
Example #2:
F.Bunch: Well, you have 2 treatment choices, #1 xxxx and #2 xxxxx.
Translator: Yeah, I think #1 is better. We should do #1. [Then talks to patient in her language.]
Patient: Okay, #1.
F.Bunch:
It makes me wonder how many things get lost in translation on a daily basis… So here is the Franksabunch™ Translation Guide® (FTG)!
Her: Honey, can we go on a double date with J&D tomorrow to the Olive Garden?
Him: I’m sorry, honey, I couldn’t hear you, what did you say?
FTG: Heeeeeck no!
Her: Hey, do you wanna dance?
FTG: Hey, can I cheat you out of free drinks all night since my guy friend who has a crush on me isn’t here?
Him: Did I ever tell you that I love you?
FTG: I’m sorry I said yesterday that my exgf was prettier than you. Can I watch Smallville now?
Doctor: We need to run more tests.
FTG: Dude, I have no idea. Ask the next guy tomorrow!
Lawyer: I think we should file an appeal.
FTG: I checked, you still have $10,000 in your savings account.
(Ouch! I’m going to lose my 10 lawyer subs for that one.
)Mechanic: We usually change the rotors when we change the brake pads
FTG: Cha-Ching! Don't forget to come for your oil change every 200 miles!
George W. Bush: To win we must not lose or else we won’t win.
FTG: To win we must not lose or else we won’t win.
Hillary Clinton: I will bring the troops home by 2008 if I am elected President.
FTG: And then I'll make Bill change his last name to Rodham!
TheTheologiansCafe: Today Barack Obama told Oprah that he's not 100% black. Do you think black people should be called "African American" (no hyphen) or "African-American" (with hyphen)?
FTG: Don't be hatin', I'm just trying to get more eprops than Cakalusa!
I'm a grown-up with content WORTH being featured, fo' shizzle.
Okay, that’s it. Sorry, I’d think up more but I have to give grand rounds next week so my time is shorter than Dr. Phil's hair! But here’s the annual V. Day Hook me up, Frankie! contest...
The Prize:
- FREE PREMIUM! (If you already have premium, it will extend your current one.) The past 2 winners were summ3r21 and insearchofadvice.
The Way:
- I will put all of the nominations in my Fear to Faith hat and then draw a winner next week. No favoritism, I promise.
The Rules:
- Only wahines (XX chromosomes) can win
- Everyone gets ONE nomination ("raffle ticket")
- If you don’t want to nominate yourself (or can’t because you’re male) you can nominate someone else so that wahine can potentially get more than one chance to win
- Each wahine is capped at receiving 5 raffle tickets
- To get nominated, say in a comment, “Hook me [or someone else] up, Frankie!” (not an email or xanga message because that would be a pain in the okole to sort through)
- Blank xangas will be disqualified…this ain’t Congress, I’m not going to spend money on nothing. (Completely protected post sites are okay, but obviously I have to have access in order to know that.)
- All nominations have to be in by Sunday, 5:37 pm, Northern California time (as opposed to Southern California time…what?)
- Flattery will not help you win, but you can certainly try.
- Good luck!
And finally, since fatfreemayo demanded it, here's my sooooper easy recipe for kim chi fried rice:
- Cut up one whole can of spam (yes, one whole can) and one large white onion, throw in medium-high heat.
- After a few minutes add kim chi without cutting it up. The key is getting GOOD kim chi (meaning from a Corean market, not Safeway). I buy the Manna brand here in California.
- Turn heat down to medium, cover, stir occasionally.
- When kim chi is getting a little on the translucent side add your rice (~3 cups depending on your rice cooker).
- Add more kim chi juice from the jar to desired spicy level or torture of your guests level. You do not need to add soy sauce or salt.
- Put fried rice in serving bowls. On another pan fry eggs over easy (yolk still runny) and then put on top of each mound of fried rice in each bowl.
- As a stand-alone dish it can serve 3-5, even more as a side dish.
Kim chi fried rice is like a first kiss...keep it simple and it will be worth the bad breath. Cinco de Fatfreemayo, just don't serve this at your next speedating event, or else no one will get engaged next time! haha....
Left: kim chi fried rice in bottom right as part of super bowl snacks. Right: with egg on top (the eater should break up the egg into pieces and then eat).
Edit: One of my patient's brought me a pheasant today. HAHAHA! Anyone know how to cook that?
Comments (83)
hahaha @ the theologian one.
kim chi fried rice looks good.
about the foreign languages...yesterday a deaf lady came through the drivethru at my bank. I don't know sign language, so it was pretty much the same as your situation. I felt bad that I couldn't understand her, and just had to say thank you before she left instead of signing it. languages are hard
oh and yeah, the kim chi fried rice looks amazing!
you just made my day.
you openly use spam, but chastised me for using mayo?! and i still haven't forgotten about the instant potatoes you keep for the white gurls...iieeeeeeee!
Hook hk61373 up, Frankie!
^_^
hook me up, frankie!
that looks really good
thanks for the recipe, i fell in love with kimchee fried rice when i last went back home to hawaii, never was much of a fan for kim chee in general. now i just have to look for good kim chee here in new york.
ok third time's a charm, right? hook me up and i promise i'll make you katsudon's whenever you want
(i think i should get at least 2 slips in the hat just for that bribe)
hahahah..........never fails to be funny!
I need to go make brekfie.
Hi Frank! You would have liked my Dr and how I am taking good care of the wound.
Please hook me up Frank- you know you want to.
hook me up Frankie!
completely sexist! i demand you open this contest up to allowing males as well!
that is of the XY chromosomes.
too funny, man
Hahaha. I am entertained. I am entertained. BTW, I'd like to nominate Buyit for the premium thing. Her xanga layout is ugly!
^ dude...are your drunk?! dissin' my layout? saddest thang ever...
frank, i nominate ricedaddy7 cause he can't hold his liquor.
Hook me up Frankie!
A lil sesame oil with added to the kimchi fried rice is yummy.
That is so funny. I'm fluent in American Sign Language and use to help translate for the deaf in church, you wouldn't believe how many signs don't exist...especially in the medical field (try translating colonoscopy =D). HooK me UP Frankie
hook me up frankie!
haha. theologian's cafe is a waste of xanga. anywho, i won't throw myself into the fray because i wouldn't even KNOW what to do with premium.
hook me up again frankie....wait wait...so ppl nominated my ass last yr???? wow
hook me up, frankie! woot. can i nominate my other sn, too? muhahah.
i could go on for hours about that theologian dude. he's a waste of my font though.. so yeah..
by the way, it ain't kimchee fried rice if there's no spam in it!
you are the best cook i know. hook me up frankie. cuz i'm poor cuz my stoopid bmw has a cracked cylinder head. and my husband rammed a building in the last snowstorm and now we have to pay 1000 euro so the guy can PAINT it. yeah. PAINT IT. what a rip. and cuz i have two hungry babies.
Niiiiiceeee. I might be craving kimchi fried rice now. :/ Too bad my sunnysideup-eggs are either TOO cooked through (meaning, the yolk isn't runny but has turned into an orange solid mass) or not cooked enough (meaning, yummy, nearly cooked eggs!).
Plus, I know what you mean about the language thing. I tried once, oh what a stupid idea! I was in a Japanese bookstore in Little Tokyo (Los Angeles) and attempted to speak Japanese. After long pauses and looking back up at the sales assistant, I managed to get my way through with my four years of Japanese learnt in high school, but it took probably three times as long as a native would have took.
It was all those dollars and cents.
hoooooooook me up, frankie!
btw, i'll have to try that recipe!
hahah love the mechanic dig
thoroughly confused!!!!!!
i work in a japanese company. so it's lost in translation everyday here.
Hook me up, Frankie!
Cuz I don't have a credit card.
Hook me up Frankie!
Now, regarding the translation post, TOO FUNNY! And too true. I've done that myself with the Spanish, especially on my OB rotation. I asked a couple of questions and suddenly they start freaking out about something. Often times I could understand what they were trying to ask and I could tell them it was normal.
Actually on my psych rotation we had a very bizzarre pt who we thought could only speak Spanish, but we weren't sure. It got frustating because we gave him some meds, then he was totally gorked, so we backed off the meds. We got word in our little room that the patient needed more meds because he was getting combative. Since I had seen he patient earlier practically drooling on himself I wasn't convinced and went out to see him. He was moving. Not fighting - he was simply waking up. Kind of funny. Anyway he began acting odd at one point and I tried to talk to him because the translator wasn't around. After he said something a couple of times I picked out the word "nausea" in what he was saying. As soon as I did the nurses started moving high speed getting ready to catch whatever it was he was about to blow. I found it rather amusing.....
Hook me up, frankie!!
i STILL wanna know how u can give away free premiums....what is up with that??
first of all....HOOK me UP!
second...hahahaha..."uh….sorry, no hablo espanol" was so funny
Okay, RYC about matching: It's not exactly like I'd be unhappy. There are things I could do there I can't do here - like doing missions work, hiking, etc. There's swing dancing within an hour of the place. And not everyone who matches there is married - one of the CA2s that I met is single. The "Women of Anesthesia" get together periodically and I believe once a year they make matching scrub caps. The entire department says they're like a family, get together and have barbeques, etc. I think I could make the most of it. It just occurred to me last night that living there might not be too terribly much different from living in Johnson City, where I was for 7 years (4 for college, 3 while I was a nurse aid).
True here I'd probably have friends and other Saba students to work with (that'd be kindof weird actually). My former roommate advised me that it's best to go somewhere other than where you did your med school training. The didactics there are much better, they do a wider variety of surgeries, etc. I do honestly believe the training would be much better there - they have a stronger regional program as well, something that's becoming rather big in anesthesia in the near future.
Besides I'm talking about who will vie for the #2 spot. I have my #1 already picked out.
Never know, I could be one of those who matches at #1......I know it's rare, but it could happen!
tat looks so delicious!
Hahah, of course fatfreemayo would want that recipe. I mean, she's only got one recipe to work with right now: that clam chowder [sic] spaghetti. : P
CHU GO LE??? YOu wanna die PhilCHAN?
hook me up, frankie =D
that george bush quote cracked me up!! i am going to try that kimchi fried rice recipe =)
and hook me up prankieeeee!
Sometimes I wonder if I'm playing with fire teaching high school Spanish.
I think "Gdwognoispeormprogpskgmpthknd;sdjsoe;roignfgigd;gohisn;ognd" says it all.
fdsanophnenkena reaekl aklj jvjdfl;sap
translation: hook me up (even though I don't need it..but i like the excitement anyway)
lmfao. i actually thought you were going to tell us that the LW smiled at you and thought you were cute because you tried to speak spanish.. which is what happened to me when i volunteered at a hospital. HAHA. but what happened to you was much much better
and really, do the mechanics not need to do everything they say they need to do?? because then i ALWAYS get jipped
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pheasant?!? o_O i hope you don't have to kill and pluck it! found a this on all recipes.com, i have a feeling that these are right up your alley
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pheasant-Nuggets/Detail.aspx
Hahaha, you can't touch me, fatfree... : P
But for the record, I haven't tried that dish of hers before - I cannot make any assessment on it.
yeah. i can do pheasant.
BUT I'M XX CHROMOSSSSSSSS
nice entry. the kimchi fried rice looks yummy. as for your lost in translation part i was cracking up. i remember trying to bust out a few phrases in spanish while i was on vacation in punta cana. it would have been disastrous if not for my tri-lingual buddy. hahah. she speaks spanish, korean, and english. native spanish speakers speak way too fast for me to understand anything. they need to slow it down and enunciate.
LMAO...good entry.
the easiest way to make pheasant...this not low fat, fat free, fun free cooking here...2 ways actually. wrap the whole bird, after it's been washed and cleaned well, in thick sliced pepper bacon and do a quick pan sear, place in a roasting pan with apples and raisins (optional) and a nice splash of cider vinegar and some dry white wine, if you want. oven should be in the 350 range. roast until juices run clear, about an hour 20 minutes or so. the second is to piece out the meat, like a chicken, throw a cup or so of honey and 1/2 c of butter (NOT MARG!!!) over the top, and bake, also in a 350 oven for about an hour, or until the meat is brown and the honey mixture is all caramelly. the second one is my favorite way to eat pheasant. with all the hunters in the fam, and most of my clients being sportsmen a well, i make alot of pheasant nov-march. you can also cut the whole bird up into chunks, wrap each chunk in bacon, maybe stick some apple slices in the roll, too, and run a toothpick through it, and grill. also a fave.
Stuff it with a homemade apricot or cranberry stuffing and roast.
Fingerling usually serve as a great carb accompaniment with gamebirds due to how petitely flavorful those buggers are.
Add a plate of mesclun (radicchio, endive, chevril)
with some nuts (pine if you decide to herb up the poule with rosemary, or walnuts because they go well with anything), crumbs of Stilton (you may choose to go with a milder bleu),
and lightly toss with a vinagrette of your choice.
Mmm... and don't forget the wild mushroom ragout... or risotto...
Feed me.
That Kim Chi fried rice looks awesome! =)
Also, hook walkingenglishgenerator up, Dr. Franksabunch!
Hook me up, sweetpea : )
hook me up, frankie! this sounds fun!
hook me up frankie!
lol that's when i say ni hao and then it's OIQrapwoeirapwoe8rapw83hr and i'm like O_O
i cracked up at your spanish speaking no-how! hahahah
African-American" (with hyphen)...yes. too cool you know how to make kimchi fly rice! ryc, man, if you lived nearby, i'd cook you up pancakes anytime!!! 
lol. kim chi bok um bap is the bomb. lol. funny thing is i order that when i go out to eat. =P
i went to high school in hawaii, my mom moved out there prior to my high school years and she's still there now. there's an L&L here in New York, they call it Hawaiian BBQ, not quite the same, but close enough.
PS: hook me up frankie
muchos mahalos and aroha
Have a pleasant pheasant! Too bad it wasn't roasted and under glass already. I'd look at the Culinary Arts Institute's encyclopedic cookbook for help, or the Joy of Cooking. When I prepare game bird, I stuff them with cooked brown rice and chopped carrots, celery, onion, mushroom, garlic... carrots sweeten the gamebirdness of it. My Dad used to hunt pheasants all the time. They have the most beautiful feathers! Cook it breast down so the juices run into there. Don't let it sit in your freezer until you move! And make sure the pretty wahine you invite to dinner isn't vegan.
Yeah, the theologianscafe one was ON POINT.
*cheer*
hahaha...oh man, i should never read this blog when i'm sitting in physiology small group. the preceptor thinks i'm smirking at our hypothetical obese pt w/typeII DM.
hook me up, frankie!
Hook me up Frankaaaay! (And if you find people doing stupid stuff as funny as I do, stop by to check out my latest video
)
oh, this post made me laugh.
so, if i were to come to you so you could take a look at this hairy bump on my butt, you might say, "we need to run more tests"?
haha. sorry. no hair, no bumps, every doctor's inspection dream. ahahahahahaha. see? i make myself laugh too. although there was that one doctor that kept me in the room for...........
ok, so anyway, hook me up. why must you make me actually say those three words? i feel so.... not white.
what's with the kimchi fried rice for superbowl... you started dating a korean girl?
hook me up, frankie!!! kimchi anything is yummy to tha tummy.
i was trying to get down to homework for my class tommorrow, but darn the internet for being so fascinating (well, at least over biology lol) and you were a featured. i love the entries ive seen so far - theyre hilarious!
ps im def trying that rice - my bfs OBSESSED with it lol
hee. less v-day angst this year? hook me up, frankie!
HAHAHAHA, I like the Latin patient.
HEY YOU!
Wassup! Sorry I've been mia. I'm going to sd this weekend. I hope we can hang out next week and that you can make it to my birthday! Wassup with you?
Hool me up Frankie! My premium is running out!
Pheasant? They are so good, I will call you and we can discuss how you want to eat it.
RYC: Yeah, read the email silly boy, and you know I will never remove the tattoo of your name from my body. My Mom even thought it was very well done.
Frank,
Sounds like everything is going well. Haven't talked to you or read your blog for quite a while. Started a new job which is keeping me busy.
One of my Xangan friend, Arlina (willful couple), just lost her father.. She is beside herself with grief. I hope you don't mind, but I gave her your name and blogsite. Hopefully, she contacts you. Like with the death of your beloved father, she is having a hard time of it.
I told her that you have a soft heart. I asked her to contact you.
Altho you can't take away her pain, I know that you could understand the depth of her sorrow. Sometimes, it just helps to know someone who can identify with overwhelming emotions...
Thanks, Frank.
Christy
hook me up, frankie!
hAHa~! Love your translations =P
Translator...yes, a big problem. A HUGE failure to communicate..
Enjoyed your recipe. Hope everything is going well for you.
Thanks for sharing.
Christy
frankie, I tried your trick by telling my boss that I do have a valentine, he's just out of town, so I can get half day off next Wednesday, you know what my boss said?
he said : " nah uh "
-_-
don't hook me up as the regular xanga already has enough features to handle, but DAYAM that flied lice looks good. hook me up with THAT!!! (no time to cook)
hi franksabunch! howve u been? i know what u mean about the whole language thing. sometimes i say a lil cantonese and the other person will start going off in cantonese and i'm like....uh, darn i shouldn't have started. haha.
wah!!! .. i thought posted earlier... am i already disqualified?
hope i can still... Hook me up, Frankie!
99% of mechanics will rip u off but my dad's body shop doesn't. so it really depends on what kind of person they r. he rejects ppl unless they're here 4 a collision repair. he doesn't do minor shiet like that he says & he doesn't care 2 rip ppl off.
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