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24 Nov by admin in Advanced, humor, videos

Pepsi’s Bob’s House ad

You know every year, there is a big event for football called SuperBowl.  They always have funny, cool, different ADs during the commericals.  11 months ago, Pepsi wanted to do a commerical that involved with Deafies in it.  It was aired during Pre-Game show. It is called Bob’s House.  It was cool…  It was based on a famous deaf joke/folkfore.

The deaf folkfore about a husband and wife and their house.

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YouTube DirektHow the Deaf found their homes

The original story goes here:

The husband and wife were looking for a new home. They went to the Army base area. The base were there but now gone. There were many houses that looked the alike. They looked around and found what they liked. They went in and saw what they liked. They decided to buy that house.

They were very excited on the first day they moved in. They got their stuff moved in. They talked how wonderful to own a home. They was like, “Wow…”

Later that day, the Husband told his Wife that he wanted to go out to the bar and have a few drinks… His wife insisted him to take the bicycle rather than taking the car.  It is safe that way.  He said ok.

He rode the bike all the way to the bar. He drank, and drank, and he proudly pondered about his new home. He was exhilarated. He had a good time and drank some more until he got drunk.

It was very late and it was dark. He walked drunkardly toward to his bike. He tried to stay on the track, but he couldn’t. He kept hitting something on his way.

The guy saw him like that. He felt bad. He asked him if he need ride home. He was too way drunk, and he told him that he is deaf.

Then he said, “Ok, I will drive you home.” The drunk Husband nodded and say “Ok.”

He started driving and it was very dark. The Husband told him where to go… It was his first time, so he was not sure. They tried to find their way to his home. Finally they found the base and entered.

The drunk Husband realized the houses looked alike. The driver said whixch one is your home? He shrugged and was not sure. He was trying to think where it could be… The driver asked him again. He shrugged again. He said he couldn’t remember. He told him that he just moved in today. He didn’t remember the house number.

But he has an idea. He just press the horn, it was enough loud. The driver was very embarrassed and not know what to do. But he saw the lights of the house start to turn on everywhere but saw only one house with no light on.

The husband laughed, and told him that that is my home. He nudged, saying that is my wife, she is deaf. He laughed drunkingly.

Then he took off the car and thanked the driver for the ride.

The driver stayed, unmotioned and in kinda of shock, wondering. He said, “Wow.”

Bob’s House ad from Pepsi

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YouTube DirektPepsi's Super Bowl Ad: Bob's House

The story goes like this:

Two guys are driving to their friend Bob’s house to watch the Super Bowl. Once they get to Bob’s street, neither knows which house is his. They sit in the car, arguing, until one of them has an idea. He starts laying on the horn, and one by one, the houses light up and dogs start barking.

One house stays dark and quiet: It’s Bob’s.

24 Nov by admin in CaptionThis, Interedimate

Caption this!

Can you guess what sign he tried to tell to the baby ?

24 Nov by admin in Interedimate, lessons, videos

English v.s. ASL

We would like to share this video with you all. We thought it would be a good lesson for you to watch and learn.  It will show you how to translate from English to ASL.  That guy’s name is Toby.  He teaches ASL. He said that it is very hard to teach how to translate from English to ASL sometimes.  We agree with him.

After you watch both video, we can discuss about it in our next social gathering if you would like to.

Enjoy it.

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YouTube Direkt101 Lesson: English into ASL

11 Nov by admin in Open Hands Social, lessons

Polls: Open Hands Social and Bar Location

You should see the two polls on the right somewhere on the sidebar. Please do them whenever you can .  I will include the links below where you can go directly to the poll itself. More importantly, we need you to poll the bar location right away. Thank you.

You can just rate it what do you think of our social name.

http://openhandsocial.questionform.com/public/Open-Hands-Social

We will need to know where we will be going for our social on December 4th. Please take your pick and we will announce where we will be gonig right here and on anyvite as well.

http://openhandsocial.questionform.com/public/OHS-Bar-Location inactive

Thank you for your time polling.  Keep eye for new polls in the future.

-Dean and David

5 Nov by admin in Interedimate, humor, lessons, videos

CODA Brothers

I have read CODA Brothers’ blog from time to time. They are vloggers. Their names are Ben and Andy Olson. They are hilarious. They can be a clown at times. They would make you laugh, learn and sign. You should check their site out some time. Their blog is codabrothers.wordpress.com. Their blog title is “Laugh. Learn. Sign.” It is a really cool blog. They would tell jokes, stories, and experiences of their lives. They won three awards in 2007 that fell in three categories: Best Hearing Ally, Most Funny Blog, and Best Storyteller from Deafread.com.

Let me say something a bit about it. Maybe many of you may not know what CODA is. CODA stands for Children of Deaf Adults. So those brothers are hearing but sign fluently. They have deaf parents. I believe they are currently interpreters.

I just found a good vlog about ASL Lesson 1. I thought you would want to check it out here. May it be overwhelming to you, but you will learn to understand eventually.

Enjoy their Video below:

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YouTube DirektCODA Brother! ASL Lesson 1

Oh one more thing, when you see them spell “Laurent, SD,” I will tell you about it some time in the near future while I need to collect more information about that town.

Later,
Dean

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