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Topic: Babelfish Detective: A Game
Bob_Scopatz
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posted February 25, 2006 01:21 PM
Okay, this one's too easy, but it cracked me up. English to Chinese, to English, to Japanese, back to English: quote: The line is rowed in order under the inlet to rearrange your boat, calmly in order. Cheerfulness, cheerfulness, cheerfulness cheerfulness and the life measles it is not desired wastefully.
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Lissande
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posted February 25, 2006 01:21 PM
Darn S.
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Lissande
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posted February 25, 2006 01:22 PM
Row, Row, Row Your Boat ?!
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Uprooted
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posted February 25, 2006 02:11 PM
Wow. Never knew that "Row . . . Your Boat" was about measles. That's sorta like "Ring around the Rosey" being about smallpox!
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Uprooted
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posted February 25, 2006 02:18 PM
quote: The acrobatics or receive cordially, smell my foot, the good deed eats for me. Silly American children's chant.
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dantesparadigm
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posted February 25, 2006 05:09 PM
trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat
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Uprooted
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posted February 25, 2006 05:27 PM
Bingo, dantesparadigm!
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rivka
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posted February 26, 2006 01:52 AM
quote: Originally posted by Uprooted: That's sorta like "Ring around the Rosey" being about smallpox! Myth! quote: If "few people realize" that "this seemingly happy little nursery rhyme actually refers" to the Black Plague, so much the better, because the explanation presented above is nonsense. "Ring Around the Rosie" is simply a nursery rhyme of indefinite origin and no specific meaning, and someone, long after the fact, concocted an inventive "explanation" for its creation.
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Tante Shvester
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posted February 26, 2006 02:03 AM
quote: O! Does speech however the star the flag the land of freedom and the house of brave inlaying do o'er of the wave? English-Japanese-English
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ketchupqueen
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posted February 26, 2006 03:22 AM
"O! Say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
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ketchupqueen
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posted February 26, 2006 03:34 AM
quote: The galaxy directly before the long time, in the distance... English-Japanese-English.
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Bob_Scopatz
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posted February 26, 2006 07:06 AM
Star Wars preamble to episode 6?
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Tante Shvester
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posted February 26, 2006 08:32 AM
Long,long ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
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ketchupqueen
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posted February 26, 2006 03:05 PM
It's actually "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." Star Wars .
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rivka
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posted February 26, 2006 04:32 PM
Old song: quote: That it is saved, that which it is saved, that it is saved, to make a bed of feather. English -> French -> English
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Bob_Scopatz
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posted February 26, 2006 09:08 PM
The FIRST Star Wars was episode 4...crud, I meant 4. Sorry.
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rivka
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posted February 26, 2006 09:49 PM
*waits*
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Geekazoid99
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posted February 26, 2006 10:00 PM
Don't ask me i don't have a clue
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Bob_Scopatz
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posted February 26, 2006 10:24 PM
The muffin man?
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Uprooted
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posted February 26, 2006 10:27 PM
"Go Tell Aunt Rhody":
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rivka
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posted February 26, 2006 10:42 PM
*applauds*
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Tante Shvester
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posted February 26, 2006 10:53 PM
My mommy used to sing that to me all the time when I was a kid. And I loved it, too. Except that verse about how "she died in the mill pond", I always thought it was "she died in the mail box". I guess that when I was a little kid, I didn't know what a mill pond was.
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imogen
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posted February 26, 2006 10:54 PM
Uprooted you are *good* at this game!
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Uprooted
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posted February 26, 2006 11:04 PM
Thanks, imogen! (now if I could even have a clue about quid's Burn, Baby Burn game . . .) quote: Up of the plain which ties the fruit frequently the color mountain phyey under the amber green onion of hazard grain hazard hazard the sky which is spacious, beautiful Ohio! English - Japanese - English
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aiua
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posted February 26, 2006 11:10 PM
America the Beautiful?
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Uprooted
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posted February 26, 2006 11:19 PM
aiua, good job -- your turn to Stump the Chumps!
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aiua
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posted February 26, 2006 11:26 PM
Guys, it's a hard one, I know. Don't feel bad if it baffles you at first. I know you'll get it soon! quote: The hillock I Goodnight goodnight voyrtsj ' zej Goodnight person Goodnight pat I goodnight to old ham as tickle, "judgment." I think it went something like English - Russian - Greek - French - Dutch - English..
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Tante Shvester
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posted February 26, 2006 11:39 PM
Uh, could it be a warped "Goodnight Moon"?
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aiua
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posted February 26, 2006 11:40 PM
Oh wow, Tante, you guessed it!
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Tante Shvester
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posted February 26, 2006 11:47 PM
quote: When there is a hammer in me, and the beater 4 by the hammer during morning, this earth by the beater hammer 4 of evening anywhere. English-Russian-English-Japanese-English
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Uprooted
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posted February 26, 2006 11:50 PM
If I had a hammer . . .?? (I'd hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the evening, all over this land)now I'm going to bed. Conspiracy, I tell you.
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Tante Shvester
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posted February 26, 2006 11:55 PM
OK, you got it, Uprooted. Sweet dreams.
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rivka
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posted February 27, 2006 03:24 AM
To bed without even posting a new one?!?
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Tante Shvester
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posted February 27, 2006 07:12 AM
quote: In order to put to put to buy a fat pig. Again it soles homemade caretaker of jiggity. again. English to Spanish to English
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rivka
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posted February 27, 2006 09:56 AM
quote: To market, to market to buy a fat pig;
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imogen
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posted February 27, 2006 10:11 AM
Awww. I *knew* that one!
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rivka
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posted February 27, 2006 10:21 AM
I have to leave in a couple minutes anyway. So why don't you post the next one, Im?
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