# More Babelfish fun

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 9, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385 "2001-04-09T18:50:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/1 "2001-04-09T18:50:52Z")

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Guess the song, win a prize.

When are you gonna that you go for bottom?  
When it that it takes program?  
I must have remained in the farm.  
I must have heard on my old man.

They know that you cannot always initially not obtain current in me.  
I did not sign for not mentioned above with you.  
I am not a gift of mode which opens his/her friends.  
This too much again boy to sing blue.

Thus, the probably yellow manner saw it brick,  
where that cães of Firmashout.  
They cannot hold it with me in its ground of roof,  
I which still suits you to well plough.

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/2 "2001-04-09T20:07:49Z")

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What’s the prize? That said, I have no idea. 🙂

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**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/3 "2001-04-09T20:28:09Z")

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Sounds like Shonen Knife. 🙂

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**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/4 "2001-04-09T20:30:19Z")

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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road?

Elton John, of course.

-L

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**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/5 "2001-04-09T20:40:43Z")

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Where’s my prize?

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**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/6 "2001-04-09T21:50:30Z")

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Ooh, I’ve got one! Can I play?

Receive your movement company.  
Precede out on the data course.  
For adventure look or, whatever comes my way.  
Yeah received to go let you occur it.  
Receive the world in a love cover.  
Fire all immediately their rifles and explode you in workstation.  
:mmph:

:giggle:

:snort:

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**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/7 "2001-04-09T22:37:18Z")

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I’m going to toss in a WAG of “Cat’s in the Cradle”, Mr. Cyn.

I tried mangling “Hotel California” but it kept coming out recognizable…that figures.

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**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/8 "2001-04-09T23:11:45Z")

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Lindy that is too easy: :Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf

Keith

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/9 "2001-04-09T23:14:51Z")

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The I whether guess/advise I had known your plan or, in order to make the blue because of me, you ask.  
Another type you had known beforehand. Between our 2, love I that of the girl it is many.

That the throught is a crane which belongs in me.  
It is longer than some rank, but you do me who am required rather?  
This so so mangled I barely remember what song I started with.

LindyHopper, is that Born to Be Wild?

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/10 "2001-04-09T23:16:33Z")

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That’s what I get for translating the song then posting.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/11 "2001-04-10T00:06:06Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by SexyWriter \*  
> \*\*Where’s my prize? \*\*

Whatcha want?

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**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/12 "2001-04-10T00:12:17Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Biggirl \*  
> \*\*The I whether guess/advise I had known your plan or, in order to make the blue because of me, you ask.  
> Another type you had known beforehand. Between our 2, love I that of the girl it is many.
> 
> That the throught is a crane which belongs in me.  
> It is longer than some rank, but you do me who am required rather?\*\*

What the hell is it?

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/13 "2001-04-10T00:40:34Z")

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This one’s pretty fucked up.

\*\* Time-out \*\* you time for me  
then cant me a song for you  
99 air aerostat  
they horizon pens far away  
you g ’ rad me perhaps  
then cant me a song fur you  
99 air not ten far away  
99 aerostat and that sowas  
sowas ven air aerostat  
they within horizon for UFOs  
universe around trasmett a General ’  
it relè aviator alarm for d then,  
wenn ’ s to be therefore here with that war  
’ n 99 horizon that aerostat ventil

Heh. It’s doable.

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**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/14 "2001-04-10T00:42:53Z")

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Coldy : 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftbalons depending on your language of choice…

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/15 "2001-04-10T00:49:06Z")

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Odie, dammit. Why did YOU show up of all people? Mr. Rock Trivia HIMSELF! 😃

OK, here’s another one:

The love is as a bomb, baby,  
it my receive it more luminous  
to more like on of  
Livin ’ like one liked with a telephone of Lookin radar  
’ like Tramp, like a videovampdemolitionfrau,  
can I your man his Razzle ’ N ’ dazzle  
’ N ’ the lightning, baby,  
go once all the night, always if,  
sugars him me gently  
little vermissen-ein-unschuldiges of  
sugars me, yeah

Take it away, OdieMeister!

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**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/16 "2001-04-10T00:57:57Z")

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That would be “Pour Some Sugar On Me”, by Def Leppard

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/17 "2001-04-10T01:03:26Z")

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Spot on! OK, let’s take it up a notch!

The luminous plunge of the sky of a plane  
or one lady with outerspace of the body  
my interior,  
my beginning of the backward movement commits my inner

Take THAT!

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**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/18 "2001-04-10T01:06:13Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Mr. Cynical \*  
> \*\*
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> > [@](#):
> >
> > \*Originally posted by SexyWriter \*  
> > \*\*Where’s my prize? \*\*
> 
> Whatcha want? \*\*

Dinner, a movie, flowers, quiet conversation, a fire, and three hours of oral sex.

-L

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**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/19 "2001-04-10T01:10:58Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Biggirl \*  
> \*\*The I whether guess/advise I had known your plan or, in order to make the blue because of me, you ask.  
> Another type you had known beforehand. Between our 2, love I that of the girl it is many.
> 
> That the throught is a crane which belongs in me.  
> It is longer than some rank, but you do me who am required rather?  
> This so so mangled I barely remember what song I started with.
> 
> LindyHopper, is that Born to Be Wild? \*\*

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**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-babelfish-fun/61385/20 "2001-04-10T01:11:14Z")

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All your base are belong…

Wait…dammit, that’s not a song!

Don’t mind me. Carry on.

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