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From the Ted Talk by Tom Rielly: A comic sendup of TED2006

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(lahguetr)

OK, now smallpox is an extremely distressing illness. We had Dr. lrray Brilliant talking about how we eradicated soplalmx. I wanted to show you the stages of smallpox. We start. This is day one.

(Laughter)

Day two. Day three, she gets a massively big pox on her shoulder. Day three. Day four.

(Laughter)

Day five and day six.

(Laughter)

Now the good news is, because I'm a trained miedacl pfrsnosieoal, I know that even though she'll be sacrerd for life, she's going to make a full recovery.

(Laughter)

Now the good news about Architects for Humanity is they're really kind of the most amazing group. They've been sponsoring a design competition to come up with innovative medical housing sotnliuos, clinic solutions, in Africa, and they've had a design competition. Now the wurdfnoel thing is, Larry Brilliant was just appointed the head of the ggoole Foundation, and so he decided that he would support — he would support Cameron's work. And the way he dediecd to support that work was by shipping over 50,000 shipping containers of Google snacks.

Open Cloze


(________)

OK, now smallpox is an extremely distressing illness. We had Dr. _____ Brilliant talking about how we eradicated ________. I wanted to show you the stages of smallpox. We start. This is day one.

(Laughter)

Day two. Day three, she gets a massively big pox on her shoulder. Day three. Day four.

(Laughter)

Day five and day six.

(Laughter)

Now the good news is, because I'm a trained _______ ____________, I know that even though she'll be _______ for life, she's going to make a full recovery.

(Laughter)

Now the good news about Architects for Humanity is they're really kind of the most amazing group. They've been sponsoring a design competition to come up with innovative medical housing _________, clinic solutions, in Africa, and they've had a design competition. Now the _________ thing is, Larry Brilliant was just appointed the head of the ______ Foundation, and so he decided that he would support — he would support Cameron's work. And the way he _______ to support that work was by shipping over 50,000 shipping containers of Google snacks.

Solution


  1. google
  2. smallpox
  3. scarred
  4. medical
  5. decided
  6. laughter
  7. wonderful
  8. professional
  9. larry
  10. solutions

Original Text


(Laughter)

OK, now smallpox is an extremely distressing illness. We had Dr. Larry Brilliant talking about how we eradicated smallpox. I wanted to show you the stages of smallpox. We start. This is day one.

(Laughter)

Day two. Day three, she gets a massively big pox on her shoulder. Day three. Day four.

(Laughter)

Day five and day six.

(Laughter)

Now the good news is, because I'm a trained medical professional, I know that even though she'll be scarred for life, she's going to make a full recovery.

(Laughter)

Now the good news about Architects for Humanity is they're really kind of the most amazing group. They've been sponsoring a design competition to come up with innovative medical housing solutions, clinic solutions, in Africa, and they've had a design competition. Now the wonderful thing is, Larry Brilliant was just appointed the head of the Google Foundation, and so he decided that he would support — he would support Cameron's work. And the way he decided to support that work was by shipping over 50,000 shipping containers of Google snacks.

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