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squeequeg ([personal profile] squeequeg) wrote2005-04-22 12:35 am

It is a time to clarify the lights!

So I finally submit to the peer pressure of my siblings' meme. Yes, I have six more chapters to skim over before Saturday; yes, I have a bunch of crits to write by Sunday; yes, it's way too late for me to be up. However this is just so much fun:

--Pick a song everyone knows.
--Take the lyrics to babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr) and translate English to German to French to English.
--Copy out the result and give clues and see who can guess the song.

These aren't really very hard, especially with the words that didn't translate well, but I find them entertaining anyway. I may attempt to sing them to the music.

1. It is a time to begin the music! It is a time to clarify the lights! It is begun time to receive things this evening on Muppet publication!

2. The boy of coin, having sat on it satisfies the rack, a toy. But I hang it, and it comes to the life, joy automatic. It is, why I wish a boy of coin.

3. He interior is it outside, if your outside is inside. Your outside is inside, if interior is it outside to him. Thus, concerned, you concern concerned, it is a such joy concerned, it is a such joy concerned, you make us form simply concerned, you make us form simply take simply - take simply -. Each one received something to be dissimulated except me and my monkey.

[identity profile] wavyarms.livejournal.com 2005-04-22 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, the first is the Muppet show, and I think the second is Coin-Operated Boy. Not sure about the third, though.

[identity profile] kassrachel.livejournal.com 2005-04-22 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep, and yep. The third is that "everyone's got something to hide 'cept me and my monkey" song, but I can't make my brain cough up the title...

[identity profile] stealthmuffin.livejournal.com 2005-04-22 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oddly enough, the title is "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except for Me and My Monkey," by the Beatles.

[identity profile] 2h2o.livejournal.com 2005-04-22 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Each one received something to be dissimulated except me and my monkey.
I think that made my month.