What's the difference between blooper and clanger?

Blooper


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  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tony Abbott: top 10 bloopers of his prime ministership In February, Abbott pleaded with his colleagues for more time to turn around the government’s fortunes when he faced a leadership spill motion initiated by backbench MPs.
  • (2) At one point, he hosted shows on all three major TV networks, including The $20,000 Pyramid on ABC, Live Wednesday on CBS and TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes on NBC.
  • (3) Matt Carpenter hit a sacrifice blooper to score Kozma, Jonny Gomes' throw to home plate evaded catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and fell to relief pitcher Craig Breslow.
  • (4) Dick Clark's TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes, various music awards shows and a range of TV and film productions helped make him one of the richest men in entertainment.
  • (5) His company churned out hits such as $25,000 Pyramid, TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes, the American Music Awards and, within a decade, New Year's Rockin' Eve.
  • (6) A base hit, one of the blooper variety - it just finds the grass in center field but Andre Ethier will take it!
  • (7) It was a preposterous play, one that will feature in blooper reels for years to come .
  • (8) Photograph: PA Wire It's been a year in which – with riots, revelations of the full grotty extent of the phone-hacking mega-blooper, and the continuing failure of those most responsible for the economic crisis to eat their share of the blame cake – Britain's moral compass has been spinning frenziedly.
  • (9) Like Stewart, Youssef played humorous video clips of his targets, and then mercilessly ripped them apart for whatever blooper they had uttered.
  • (10) #alcs @LengelDavid October 14, 2013 FOX are taking a hit tonight - I think Nick is referring to FOX going out of their way to highlight a blooper from last night in which the ball girl nearly had her helmet knocked off by a bouncing baseball in foul ground.
  • (11) That's nearly 7% of your available life Watching every film on the BFI's list of The Greatest Films of All Time will take you 217 hours (with an extra half-hour if you want to watch the hilarious "blooper reel" at the end of Citizen Kane).
  • (12) In yesterday's game one, Tampa made a lot of mistakes, i ncluding an all-time blooper by rookie outfielder Wil Myers , and Boston capitalized on almost every single one on route to a 12-2 blowout victory.
  • (13) 1.02am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, bottom of the 3rd Pedroia hits a bat breaking blooper that gets caught, but Ells does make it to second and no chance in hell does Matheny want Ortiz to hit here.
  • (14) What surprised Gross were the inclusion of a few bloopers: "There are a couple of really funny outtakes.
  • (15) The camera follows him as he comes back to inspect the broken seat of the chair with a shrug, a light-hearted blooper reel ending to a video of a seriously committed breakdancer.
  • (16) Jackson hits a blooper that falls in, scoring Dirks.
  • (17) Oeps interview blooper hahaha Leaning and learning 5.
  • (18) "The theatre mode for example, was designed to capture highlights, but it has turned into a cottage industry of blooper films and other user-generated content that our fans have had a blast with.

Clanger


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  • (1) Children will also be catered for with an adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s book Stick Man and festive editions of revived TV classics The Clangers and Danger Mouse.
  • (2) The comments stunned green Tories, with energy and climate change ministers shifting from talk of "world leadership" in the morning to "realism" in the afternoon, and party activists saying Osborne had dropped a clanger.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Clangers come on at the end of the CBeebies day, narrated by the steady, lulling voice of Michael Palin.
  • (4) It’s better to get out before you reach your sell-by date.” Wince Philip: Prince's most famous comments and clangers Read more When was the right time?
  • (5) Here was the dullest of games with the liveliest of endings, thanks to clangers from each goalkeeper in the last 10 minutes of the match.
  • (6) When asked last month for her thoughts on another Clinton clanger – claiming that she and her husband, former president Bill, were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2000 – Warren reportedly “paused for a full 19 seconds” before saying: “Um, I was surprised.” Asked whether Clinton could plausibly speak on behalf of America’s poorest in a political fight against inequality, Sagrans said: “Obviously Hillary has been out and promoting her book, and promoting her, and doing a lot of these speeches.
  • (7) The 70s are sometimes referred to as the decade that style forgot, and some of the cliched clangers are present and correct in the final season on Sky Atlantic .
  • (8) Decision to "go early" may have been on legal advice but more and more looks like a clanger.
  • (9) The Duke of Edinburgh has shocked and sometimes delighted the public with his outspoken comments and clangers.
  • (10) Louis van Gaal dropped a clanger after Manchester United’s win over CSKA Moscow by getting Chris Smalling’s name wrong … again.
  • (11) ITV yesterday apologised for a clanger almost as big as England goalkeeper Robert Green's after 1.5 million fans watching the World Cup clash with the USA on the broadcaster's HD channel missed Steven Gerrard's fourth minute goal because of a "transmission error".
  • (12) Of course, MacMath couldn’t have timed Sunday’s clanger any worse, coming just hours after the official announcement of Howard’s signing.
  • (13) The pace slows, there are fewer multicoloured dinosaurs, and instead, you have the steady, lulling voice of Michael Palin narrating Clangers – about a family of pink, mouse-like creatures who live underground on another planet – followed by the unchanged, vital staple of In the Night Garden.
  • (14) a) Let sleeping Dallas lie b) I can’t wait for the new Clangers c) I pine for Bagpuss d) I miss gathering round the wireless Results Mostly a) Chill out, Flash Gordon.
  • (15) It was Ospina, though, who dropped the most nightmarish of clangers and it shone a harsh light on Wenger’s decision to persist with him in this competition at the expense of Cech.
  • (16) Whatever, he says, he made one of the great clangers in history.
  • (17) US writer Helen Boyd , author of My Husband Betty, lists 35 classic clangers, including: trans woman putting on makeup (two shots for reverse camera shot into mirror); showing "before" photos; any reference to genital surgery that includes "finally becoming a woman"; and anything with a trans woman sitting in an above-the-knee skirt, "posed so you can see what great gams she has".
  • (18) Despite Brown dropping a clanger in 2007 by abolishing the 10p tax rate, followed by the 2008 financial tsunami that hit our shores due to the earthquake of US sub-prime debt, it was Brown and Obama who engineered the fiscal stimulus.
  • (19) Being at the junction of the Eurasian, North American and African tectonic plates, the Azores are a geological hotspot: when seen from its highest point, each island is a Clanger-land of chimneys and craters where you could believe entire civilisations of sprites and elves live among the fat, dappled cows.
  • (20) And there’s the huge spanner that the euro crisis has thrown into the Scottish works – an even bigger clanger come 2017 if you think of Scotland pushing hard to join the EU just as England votes to leave.