Tim Worstall

Song Competition.

Stolen Borrowed from the Llamabutchers is the following competition. Take the lyrics to a song, go to Babelfish and translate from English to German, then German to French and French back to English again. Post the results and geek points for those who can identify the song. Here’s mine:

Me the Breeze, do not call you me hold to roast to the bottom the road
which it me the Breeze to call, me holds, road I to roast to the
bottom me, I carry maintenance me not of freight not of modification
in time are, not to be not modification in me is not modification in
time, is not above modification in me, I are not hidin ‘, are not
hidin ‘ of me me this green light received to shift above the baby, me
were received, to hold received this green light, baby, me were
received, to shift above to hold could in California expire

Extra points on this one if you can name both the songwriter and original artist and the band that made the (longer) version famous.

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  1. The Weasel Bearder Avatar
    The Weasel Bearder

    ‘Call me the breeze’ by J J Cale, recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
    How about:
    An injury which has surely all those for it east sparkles a gold and it buys a staircase with the sky, gives, if it receives it there white, if all the memories with one are closed the word which can receive it that it came
    Tim adds: Stairway to Heaven?

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  2. Alfred Pellingham Avatar
    Alfred Pellingham

    How about this:
    The wheels on the regular bus disappear to rounds,
    and round of circles round round and round disappear the wheels on the regular bus approximately,
    and circle the whole day goes the horn on the regular bus
    schallsignal, schallsignal, schallsignal from schallsignal, schallsignal, schallsignal from schallsignal, schallsignal,
    makes for audio signal the horn on the regular bus goes to schallsignal, schallsignal, makes audio signal the whole day of the windshield wipers on the regular bus goes bruissement, bruissent, bruissent bruissement, bruissent, bruissent bruissement, bruissent, bruissent
    the windshield wiper on the regular bus goes bruissement, bruissent, bruissement the whole day,
    that the persons on the regular bus goes to vibration feature of the drive axle on difficult traction conditions

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  3. Knowledge Is Power: SondraK.com Avatar
    Knowledge Is Power: SondraK.com

    Name That Tune

    This is a fun little timewaster via Tim Worstall. Take the lyrics to a song, go to Babelfish and translate from English to German, then German to French and French back to English again. Post the results and geek points for those who can identify the s…

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