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babelfish
The best translator possible indeed. Take a look as I translate the expression "fuck you" back and forth from English to French.
"Fuck you"
English to French
"Va te faire foutre" (Fair enough. It's right.)
French to English
"Get stuffed" (I'm sorry?)
English to French
Obtenez bourré (The previous was meant as in "Go get yourself stuffed." This... thing here says something in the lines of: "Receive stuffed," which doesn't really make sense.)
French to English
Obtain stuffed
There you are. Babelfish tells you that another way of telling someone to go fuck him/herself is "obtain stuffed."
English to French
"Va te faire foutre" (Fair enough. It's right.)
French to English
"Get stuffed" (I'm sorry?)
English to French
Obtenez bourré (The previous was meant as in "Go get yourself stuffed." This... thing here says something in the lines of: "Receive stuffed," which doesn't really make sense.)
French to English
Obtain stuffed
There you are. Babelfish tells you that another way of telling someone to go fuck him/herself is "obtain stuffed."
babelfish by Boris Moskovitz February 2, 2007
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Babelfish • Babelfishing • babelfishit • babelfisk1 • bagelfish • the Babel fish • Bable Fish • babyfishes • babeish • babeishness
babel fish
The Babel fish is small yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the unconscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them.
The practical upshot of this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is whte and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that did not stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best selling book 'Well That About Wraps It Up For God'.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different race and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
The practical upshot of this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is whte and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that did not stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best selling book 'Well That About Wraps It Up For God'.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different race and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
babel fish by Douglas Adams' Ghost February 17, 2005
biselfish
Someone who is willing to accept pleasure and/or sexual gratification from the same sex but will not reciprocate.
My girlfriend will receive oral from girls because it is pleasurable but will not reciprocate on them thereby gaining the reputation for being biselfish.
biselfish by winterskye May 25, 2013
the Babel fish
The Babel Fish (from Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy) is a small yellow fish you put in your ear to translate other languages. It swims through your ear canal into your brain, where instead of feeding off of your brain, it does something incredible. It actually feeds off of other's brain waves and converts them into coherent thoughts of your language. Contrary to popular belief, you cannot watch foreign language films or read foreign text, even with the babel fish, since it only converts from active brainwave that are in the same room as you, not a language that's been recorded or from the written word.
- Person 1: "Golly jee wilkers! I can understand all the languages with the Babel Fish! I should use this in Chinese class!"
- Person 2: "It still won't help you ace your written Chinese exams."
- Person 1: "Aw."
- Person 2: "It still won't help you ace your written Chinese exams."
- Person 1: "Aw."
the Babel fish by Garrett Starr November 2, 2014
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