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From the Ted Talk by Thomas Hellum: The world's most boring television ... and why it's hilariously addictive

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So that's strong and living TV. Four hundred and thirty-six minute by minute on a Friday night, and during that first night, the first Twitter message came: Why be a ckecihn? Why stop at 436 when you can expand that to 8,040, muitne by minute, and do the iocnic jnoreuy in Norway, the coastal ship journey Hurtigruten from Bergen to Kirkenes, almost 3,000 keiemotlrs, covering most of our coast. It has 120-year-old, very interesting history, and literally takes part in life and death along the coast. So just a week after the Bergen Railway, we called the Hurtigruten company and we started planning for our next show.

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So that's strong and living TV. Four hundred and thirty-six minute by minute on a Friday night, and during that first night, the first Twitter message came: Why be a _______? Why stop at 436 when you can expand that to 8,040, ______ by minute, and do the ______ _______ in Norway, the coastal ship journey Hurtigruten from Bergen to Kirkenes, almost 3,000 __________, covering most of our coast. It has 120-year-old, very interesting history, and literally takes part in life and death along the coast. So just a week after the Bergen Railway, we called the Hurtigruten company and we started planning for our next show.

Solution


  1. iconic
  2. journey
  3. kilometers
  4. chicken
  5. minute

Original Text


So that's strong and living TV. Four hundred and thirty-six minute by minute on a Friday night, and during that first night, the first Twitter message came: Why be a chicken? Why stop at 436 when you can expand that to 8,040, minute by minute, and do the iconic journey in Norway, the coastal ship journey Hurtigruten from Bergen to Kirkenes, almost 3,000 kilometers, covering most of our coast. It has 120-year-old, very interesting history, and literally takes part in life and death along the coast. So just a week after the Bergen Railway, we called the Hurtigruten company and we started planning for our next show.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

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slow tv 7
bergen railway 3
watched part 3
coastal ship 3
train ride 2
al jazeera 2
strange tv 2
million norwegians 2
norwegians watched 2
social media 2
living room 2
hurtigruten coastal 2
good slow 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
million norwegians watched 2
norwegians watched part 2
hurtigruten coastal ship 2

Important Words


  1. bergen
  2. called
  3. chicken
  4. coast
  5. coastal
  6. company
  7. covering
  8. death
  9. expand
  10. friday
  11. history
  12. hurtigruten
  13. iconic
  14. interesting
  15. journey
  16. kilometers
  17. kirkenes
  18. life
  19. literally
  20. living
  21. message
  22. minute
  23. night
  24. norway
  25. part
  26. planning
  27. railway
  28. ship
  29. show
  30. started
  31. stop
  32. strong
  33. takes
  34. tv
  35. twitter
  36. week