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Langosta
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Canada
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 Posted - 06/09/2003 : 07:23:57
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I know, I have way too much time on my hands. I copied and pasted the lyrics to "Monkey Gone to Heaven" into the altavista.com online translator, and translated the lyrics into Japanese and then back into English. I pasted the resulting travesty below, and for the sake of integrity did not correct the grammar or syntax, despite my writer's instinct to do otherwise. As you'll see, the title gets rendered as "The monkey which goes to the heaven". And now, without further ado, is a Pixies classic, twisted and bent out of shape for your reading pleasure...
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"The monkey which goes to the heaven"
If and the cool sky and land where this monkey which goes to the heaven by 10,000,000 pounds of the deposit which obtains the sea from New York and New Jersey which have the sewage people being killed, any creative things of the sky which is controlled being inhaled with the ahole, now excessively are there the cool land all us the burning mark of all acquisition rotary gonna where I obtain my ones, the hole of this monkey which goes to the refuge the jaw shake me who am obtained!
If the person 5 years old [ the 3x ] and as for demon 6 [ the 5x ] 7 years old which then are this monkey of God [ the 3x ] it goes to the heaven is |
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gary13th
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
632 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2003 : 07:30:00
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well its different ! what would be fun is running it through one of those online dialectizers where you can see the text in "redneck" speak or "swedish chef" speak !
~you will get used to me, welcome to your new joy
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mereubu
= FB QuizMistress =
USA
2677 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2003 : 07:40:03
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NimrodsSon
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1938 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2003 : 08:16:31
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| It sounds like one of those old chinese or japanese proverbs or something out of the Tao te Ching |
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2003 : 09:12:10
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| I'd like to hear more about these mysterious and shadowy "sewage people". Was Mr. Francis prophecising the eventual domination of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (tm)? It seems undeniable. |
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bazza
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1439 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2003 : 09:25:07
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| thats pretty good! we should try more songs. |
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Langosta
- FB Fan -
Canada
8 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2003 : 09:37:18
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Alright, kiddies, here's another one from your Uncle Langosta. This one is "Wave of Mutilation" translated into Japanese and then back into English, which then becomes something called "Wave of cutting". What I would give to be "the el which rode the mermaids".
Giddy-up.
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Wave of cutting
To finish to resist I have died, but, the wave of the wave of the cutting to which I with the wave of cutting the wave of the wave as for me where it is I, the way if giving my car to the ocean in drive, you think of that it navigates to the nino of the el which rode the mermaids, the sand can find my method of having the crustaceans which you walked to the mariana of the wave of the wave of cutting of the wave of cutting, and the wave of cutting kiss
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mereubu
= FB QuizMistress =
USA
2677 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2003 : 10:40:48
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Ooh, I especially like "the wave of cutting kiss."
I wonder what would happen if you took Shonen Knife lyrics and translated them into Japanese and then back into English. Would they make sense then? |
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sharkey
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United Kingdom
65 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2003 : 12:42:08
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Had to have a go at this, here's the end of The Happening (from "I was driving doing nothing" on) translated into German and back
I its do not drive do anything on the bank from largely salt lake as it set it on the air I use it in the hammer way I soon forgotten myeslf and I forgotten over the brake I forgotten all law and I forgotten over the rain her its speak on the 9 and all about the amy volume about the road her its turn and precede southward with me it received thus urge on the road I begin drive into the sand my head its feeling scared however my heart its believe freely the wasteland turn to mud it seem that everyone hear everyone its to remind to forget her to have the shower I to then hear the voice on transmission of high on the bird, which interviewt it by any Goodman kept, whose name was calculation, I to Vegas is nearly there, in which they are puttin ' on an appearance, it come me lived this long I had at least up to now straight go and say hello to have
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Langosta
- FB Fan -
Canada
8 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2003 : 13:19:39
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LOL!
"Amy Volume" sounds like it should be the name of some grrl folk singer of the Ani DiFranco type! (And "High on the Bird" could be her first single!)
You know...there might something to this. If you're desperate to think of a name for your band, take a well known song, feed it through a primitive online translator and then scour the results for something truly unique.
Voila! The punk band Name-o-Matic(TM)! |
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PsychicTwin
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1772 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2003 : 14:23:56
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And to think I've had trouble writing my own unique, striking lyrics to this point in my life!
Problem solved!!! I'll put the mundane, retarded crap I come up with in the altavista translator, pump em out in Swahili, double-filter 'em over to Esperanto, and then spit em back out in English.
Lo and behold, the surreal, mind-bending poetry I've been trying to achieve for so long!!!
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Douglas
= Cult of Ray =
Sweden
308 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2003 : 16:20:09
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Yeah, I found that out a long time ago, translating Nirvana's "Come As You Are' back and forth out of boredom... if you do it like five times you get totally wierd lyrics. awsome. =) |
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
6214 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2003 : 02:49:52
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I will change my screenname into Caculation Goodman
''it's not a box, it's a submarine'' |
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DruggedBunny
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
395 Posts |
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gary13th
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
632 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2003 : 04:54:15
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thats the site ! i couldnt remember the web address for the dialectizer. Run it through on "cockney" - gotta love the album name "dog in the bleedin' sand" !!!!
~you will get used to me, welcome to your new joy
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thalassocrat
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United Kingdom
46 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2003 : 13:36:33
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Here is "Parry the wind high, low" rendered in cockney. The mince pie bit cracked me up.
Parry the wind 'igh, right, low and if a ship meets yor car, right, yer know yer can't go real far, they could treat yer real nice, or put a trackin' device, way dahn inside, right, i'm checkin' out invention at the UFO convention tonight, planes above the chuffin' hilton make it sunny, brought me brass tonight, blue blond ladies of abduction strummin' spoons of instruction delight, a bit of wanna-be truckers maknin' mince pies wiv starfuckers tonight, right, i got me 'and on some sights, right, electric glasses wiv lights, they got me feelin' deluxe, for just a couple of bucks, right, way dahn inside, right, i'm copping patterns from a trekker and it sounds like soul records ter me, they're wavin' oi from some gazebo, right, wavin' on ter arecibo ter me, gettin' patterns from a trekker, sounds like soul records ter me, patterns from a trekker sounds Desmond dekker ter me, sleep machine, in yor silo Transmarine, buggers yer've never seen, parry the wind 'igh, low, right, parry the wind 'igh, low
they speak vaudevillian... |
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guy_nolan
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
417 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2003 : 16:14:57
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Here's my effort, '85 week's' to dutch and back + a bit of jive for good measure. :)
As soon as Eric said "bowl assemble 'rounds off ah' a sto'y tell gots'ta dat fo'gotsten not t'amaze un somnambulist dat be awake sees he sleeps rap uh talk ne uh fracture, dat walks note, dat ya' not oo ooh no not praised, praised ya' no, ya' concernin' its acquaintance he two demands not praised gots not, dat he be a Don and betta' a Captain un somnambulist, dat he wuz awake esteemed butYou's praise oo no, ya' t no, ya' not not praised duz praised dat dey him funky characta' and he lost all its only t'de boys in de tie un , ya' remains awake and sees whut lifts eighty-five weeks wid nappin' only ya' oo no not praised, ya' no, ya' please yo'self listens would not kin rap praised praise gots'ta not? All not became covers in fur un somnambulist letbal, dat me 'esplanashun sees de fur changed t'wood grain granule everydin' kin ya' praised it, but ya' oo ooh no praised, ya' not praised no, ya' not praised, but praised ya' oo ooh no, ya' not no, ya' not not praised, praised?"
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thalassocrat
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United Kingdom
46 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2003 : 17:55:49
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That still reads like Dutch to me :)
they speak vaudevillian... |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2003 : 18:00:03
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i decided to put the swimmer through some brazilian portuguese.and then italian.lets just say it didn't turn out very well. its definetly not as funny as the other ones, especially the japanese one. i think people thought i was crazy i was giggling so much.
here is the result.
in the vigil of the relative one chariot/você it has swum for the sheets of latitudes/que for the periods more distant tests than felizes/de behind florida/que relative the best one than you eram/que it ignores rescuers/você ido/você a lot along was therefore therefore much age therefore trágico/mas of forte/cena that the age mágico/você will not be never drowned? / you will learn to the forgotten part use-se/alguma one sure forgotten part? /.it plows them that he goes low for the level where the ballyhoos and tritoni you they are? / aged therefore that incredible/encontrando that all the edible/prêmio of the mar/prêmio of the vigil of mar/na of the relative one chariot/ele has swum for latitudes/que they leave for more distant division pelagic/você than periods felizes/de behind florida/na where coragic
Today i realised frank is the greatest man alive. Go figure. |
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Doryphore
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Belgium
111 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2003 : 04:32:38
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this is great stuff!! put I've seen your picture through a translator...
I have your image all . I the corner seen turn j I see yourself face. of you a space. flickering your smiles at the complete . I a roads on the street reserve went that I was on. through many summon a lot of nights the miles on. went and yet carried the staring of your faces on. I the blow sense of the sloganeer. I it readthe engineer saw. I the profit of the woekeraar. your image in the statosphere. I a roads on the street set went that I was on. for many summon a lot of nights the miles went. and yet the staring look of you. I went a roads on it. and yet the staring look of your faces on carried
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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
3581 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2003 : 08:01:18
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| Sheets of Latitudes.... sounds like some Prog-Rock concept double album where side a is a 23 minute song and side b is another, completely the same sounding, 23 minute song. Like a Pink Floyd meets Genesis meets Dreamtheatre kind of thing. Yes... I have a new project to think about.... no one steal it now, it was my idea..... |
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mergzez7
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France
166 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2003 : 13:30:15
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This is Where Is My Mind from English to Japanese back into English :
You try the air of the land, and your feet and this trick of your head can obtain, your head collapse if it turns, what it is to that, you ask: Is there my heart somewhere?
I like "your head collapse if it turns".
zez |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2003 : 14:01:49
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quote:
Originally posted by Doryphore
this is great stuff!! put I've seen your picture through a translator...
I have your image all . I the corner seen turn j I see yourself face. of you a space. flickering your smiles at the complete . I a roads on the street reserve went that I was on. through many summon a lot of nights the miles on. went and yet carried the staring of your faces on. I the blow sense of the sloganeer. I it readthe engineer saw. I the profit of the woekeraar. your image in the statosphere. I a roads on the street set went that I was on. for many summon a lot of nights the miles went. and yet the staring look of you. I went a roads on it. and yet the staring look of your faces on carried
thats a keeper! what language was that put through?
i'm hooked! hey through italian (love that language).
hey to try to come them to contact hey it must be a devil between we or whores in mine whores the heads to mine whores of the hatch in my base but hey where them he has been if they gone sure morirò uh concatenato I have said the man to the uh of the mrs. has said that the mrs. to the man adored and the whores like a choir go uh all the night and mary he is not you have been gotten tired of this uh is the sound that the mother renders when the breaches of the child we concatenate
Today i realised frank is the greatest man alive. Go figure. |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2003 : 14:13:49
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another one! somebody stop me! two reelers thru german.
A quantity of people love that Jerome you missed it its comb knew? Its whole life was into the pain formed for us laughter, which it never weighted brother, SAM more was, than OKAY again returned, in order the hair TagesSlicked bake to store it held, heep, heep, heep, heep, to form heep if all see you, act of violence is, then I A pretext yeah in its defense you does not know it speaks vaudevillian forms? And for which is it hears that which my theory something Kauderwelsch is there is so serious, which are we the stupider men need, who are underestimated the whole time Louis, were so much finely without it, place you you knew themselves it could the violin play forwards? Most important was brother Moe, which was he that, who formed it, received thus it a Joe and would not finish another Joe it, he would not finish and Mr. White heard bad report and thus he terminates the two a short cause reeler you not to do not to be able, what her not to be able
Today i realised frank is the greatest man alive. Go figure. |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2003 : 14:26:31
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okay, one last one. i don't have a problem! i can stop whenever i want to!!!! i swear!!!
kicked in the taco, through french,german and portuguese.
Today with Morocco new I received given to a blow from the foot in the entire parquet block, that I saw I was legend of the stars, it nightmarish of few to the municipality of the church of Albondigas under the stars am h3., I gave I blow of the foot in the parquet block I receive it sirroco from the elasticity that agitates in the March planet, and of me you order my report of the love to receive you receive it my report that you receives mine report from the love.
taco has seemed to have disapeared.
Today i realised frank is the greatest man alive. Go figure. |
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thalassocrat
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United Kingdom
46 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2003 : 06:57:19
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I want to see this March planet agitated by elasticity. Who knows, maybe that's where the taco dissapeared to ;)
they speak vaudevillian... |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2003 : 17:02:22
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quote:
Originally posted by thalassocrat
I want to see this March planet agitated by elasticity. Who knows, maybe that's where the taco dissapeared to ;)
they speak vaudevillian...
you mean the parquet block...?
Today i realised frank is the greatest man alive. Go figure. |
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weird_white
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Posted - 07/08/2003 : 14:38:34
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wow these r funny!!
~weird_white~ (yes, im promised to the night) |
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PsychicTwin
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1772 Posts |
Posted - 07/08/2003 : 14:46:55
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"Today with Morocco new I received given to a blow from the foot in the entire parquet block"
HAHHAHAHAHA! fucking precious!! |
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Doryphore
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Belgium
111 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2003 : 04:01:35
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quote:
Originally posted by Brackish Girl
quote:
Originally posted by Doryphore
this is great stuff!! put I've seen your picture through a translator...
I have your image all . I the corner seen turn j I see yourself face. of you a space. flickering your smiles at the complete . I a roads on the street reserve went that I was on. through many summon a lot of nights the miles on. went and yet carried the staring of your faces on. I the blow sense of the sloganeer. I it readthe engineer saw. I the profit of the woekeraar. your image in the statosphere. I a roads on the street set went that I was on. for many summon a lot of nights the miles went. and yet the staring look of you. I went a roads on it. and yet the staring look of your faces on carried
thats a keeper! what language was that put through?
to dutch and back
I very much like Kicked in the taco! |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 07/11/2003 : 05:13:19
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yes i reckon kicked in the taco is the funniest one i did.
hey if i pretend i wrote that version would frank realise its kicked in the taco? i could just change the tune around a little...
bored of the little comments. i guess i'll just have an actual signature. much shorter.
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Crispy Water
= Cult of Ray =
Canada
819 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2003 : 17:43:28
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This stuff's too funny! This is Superabound from English to German to French and back to English again:
SUPERABOUND you intended to roast to him there today with the sun /, roast them there,/be saw the wind a`shining/vous don`t knowing who know you don`t,/sy a tree believed who fall,/are, that`s O.K./vous don`t know, don`t much preferably for the boot of fleurs/I`m have which is perforated to lower and is perforated with the tops /, therefore I bought a chart with the humeurs/à myself saw a chicken with two têtes/ni slightly which was, with P.T. Egress/` Couse see without tête/alors, you to shift, if Verkaeuferspricht/I however received superabound /, to me nichts/A I did not receive rien/faire still well, thought were a blow /, but I did not receive anything yet faire/vous must my domicile/me see in decastyle/dans the other potlach/visiter day came it were established sasquatch/lui said, although of I`m remain a déséquilibre/moi-même for one moment precisely can? ` Bends even us to them some-des/et nichts/I to be still made superabound / but I did not receive anything yet to make
Pretty sloppy mix of languages there, but it's crazy seeing how messed up the words become.
Nothing is ever something. |
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Leah
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
314 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2003 : 09:15:01
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scary thing was running Kristin Hersh lyrics a while back thorough the valley girl translation site - could try it with some breeders but I doubt it would change much (tee-hee!)
Every choice human being strives instinctively for a citadel and a secrecy where he is saved from the crowd -
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FrequencyOfGlow
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USA
157 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2003 : 14:03:39
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I just couldn't resist this one. Sit back , relax and enjoy His Kingky Cave from English to German to Portuguese and back to English
It inside desires a condition changed of the walls of mansion. It says that it would wait to rather to smooth to fall. But, still the drain plug, they and with one hunts of the drink had eaten the spirit, that assigns. They had been to commemorate. They had been to have a sphere. All, that in the door, but, had been apprehended were not good in everything. The turned sky cinereous. They had laughed at its error, during its skin had started to crawl. , but it is so that too much been slow it goes stops backwards now. They had closed the doors and the scene was adjusted. It participates in its real cave. It does not assure the leopards do not bite you. It cleans mostly except this absent tear it violently above. It at par of the overalls in a form sees, headless and jewels burnished under the glass two-inch and important punctures invested in the back part of the Vernons area for are. The interest of Don;t the group does not go off in you. more for much time today it does not cry out. They liberate exceeding sepultures, during rains start to fall. E finally is run awayed, if the bar-bus double of the lathe thread will be assigned. The Trauernden lowers and one constraint now to say on, of "shouts I. I shout for everything."
I like that lemur, I lick it. That's velvety! |
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