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So you think you can trust Babel Fish? You think wrong... As proved by my attempt to translate Neil Cicierega's "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" into Japanese using Babel Fish then back into English. It ended up unreadable, but awesome.
Original song
Old Godzilla was hopping around
Tokyo City like a big playground
When suddenly Batman burst from the shade
and hit Godzilla with a Batgrenade
Godzilla got pissed and began to attack
but didn't expect to be blocked by Shaq
who proceeded to open up a can of Shaq Fu
When Aaron Carter came out of the blue

And he started beating up Shaquille O'Neal
Then they both got flattened by the Batmobile
but before it could make it back to the Batcave
Abraham Lincoln popped out of his grave
and took an AK-47 out from under his hat
and blew Batman away with a rat-a-tat-tat
but he ran out of bullets and he ran away
because Optimus Prime came to save the day

this is the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
good guys, bad guys, and explosions as far as the

eye can see
and only one will survive, I wonder who it will be
this is the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

Godzilla took a bite out of Optimus Prime
like Scruff McGruff took a bite out of crime
and then Shaq came back covered in a tire track
but Jackie Chan jumped out and landed on his back
and Batman was injured, and trying to get steady
when Abraham Lincoln came back with a machete
but suddenly something caught his leg and he tripped
Indiana Jones took him out with his whip

then he saw Godzilla sneaking up from behind
and he reached for his gun which he just couldn't

find
'cause Batman stole it and he shot and he missed
and Jackie Chan deflected it with his fist
then he jumped in the air and did a somersault
while Abraham Lincoln tried to pole vault
onto Optimus Prime, but they collided in the air
then they both got hit by a Care Bear Stare

this is the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
good guys, bad guys, and explosions as far as the

eye can see
and only one will survive, I wonder who it will be
this is the Ultimate Showdown...

angels sang out an immaculate chorus
down from the heavens descended Chuck Norris
who delivered a kick which could shatter bones
into the crotch of Indiana Jones
who fell over on the ground, writhing in pain
as Batman changed back into Bruce Wayne
but Chuck saw through his clever disguise
and he crushed Batman's head inbetween his thighs

then Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White and
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail"'s Black Knight and
Benito Mussolini and The Blue Meanie and
Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie
Robocop, the Terminator, Captain Kirk, and Darth

Vader
Lo Pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger
Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan,
Spock, The Rock, Doc Ock, and Hulk Hogan
all came out of nowhere lightning fast
and they kicked Chuck Norris in his cowboy ass
it was the bloodiest battle the world ever saw
with civilians looking on in total awe

and the battle raged on for a century
many lives were claimed, but eventually
the champion stood, the rest saw their better:
Mr. Rogers in a bloodstained sweater

this is the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
good guys, bad guys, and explosions as far as the

eye can see
and only one will survive, I wonder who it will be
this is the Ultimate Showdown...
this is the Ultimate Showdown...
this is the Ultimate Showdown...
of Ultimate Destiny
Translated then re-translated edition

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flying when the bat which likes the large athletic

field man destruction intensity does suddenly from

the shade and being upset, profit, started attacking

Godzilla Godzilla where Batgrenade hit, didn' As for

t someone whom you expect that it is obstructed by

Shaq advanced should develop the can of Shaq Fu when

[aronkata] comes out of blue and as for him

Shaquille O' It started striking; [niru] then those

as for both by Batmobile but it could to level

returning to Batcave before that, as for Abraham

Lincoln which can make that you sounded plunk from

that grave and you took the AK-47 from under that

hat but and it left with rut/rat tattat, you blew

the bat man, he to use up the bullet, the zenith of

Optimus which escapes rescuing day because it came,

as for this as for the good person, the villain and

explosion to the eye which is final final stage of

final destiny it can see, that is who, this which as

for just one, you think in my doubt and continues is

finalIt is final final stage of destinyYou bit

Godzilla from the zenith of Optimus and like the

neck muscle which takes the scar you bit McGruff

from crime and took the scar but and Shaq being

covered returned with the tire track/truck, it noted

[jiyatsuki] Chan quickly with that, when Abraham

Lincoln which, tries the fact that landed and the

bat man to be hurt obtains steadily depending on the

hatchet returning but something caught that foot

suddenly, as for him Indiana Jones who stumbled

produced to accompany him with that rod and he who

then will have been secretly from rear looked at

Godzilla and he him exactly couldn' It reached

because of that gun; The heuristic ' of t; The bat

man of cause stole that, he shot, let escape and

[jiyatsuki] Chan you eluded that of that fist and he

jumped with the air, while Abraham Lincoln which

does loop tries in polevault, the zenith of Optimus,

but collided to those with the air, then those as

for both as for this which obtains collision with

the stare of the worried as for the good person,

the villain and explosion to the eye which is final

final stage of final destiny it can see, that is

who, final is this which as for just one, you think

in my doubt and continues finalStageâ¦
As for the angel the kicking where someone who

lowered chuck Norris from the heaven which sings the

complete chorus can pulverize the bone was offered

in the Indiana Jones's ? someone went down with the

land, as for the chuck that intelligent disguise was

foreseen but as the bat man who with the pain which

struggles again changes to blues Wayne and as for

him Batman' It crushed; The head center of s that ?

and Gandalf gray and Gandalf white " Serpent and

holy Grail" of Monty; ' Black horseman and Benito

Mussolini of s and blue ill-tempered human Curtis

and Jambi cowboy demon God Robocop, the terminator,

Kirk captain, and the Darth Vader Lo pot, building

S. Preston and [seodoarogan] superman and ranger of

one one power, Spock and the stone, DOC Ock, and

waste hull Hogan everything everywhere came out of

the electric light fast and as for those as for that

chuck Norris of the donkey of that cowboy is kicked

looking at the entire awe which is fight of the

blood which the world saw the ordinary citizen raged

and as for fight between centuries as for many

lives, as for the champion which is required after

all, to remain, rather than seeing, it is good, it

stood: Rogers of bloody sweater
As for this as for the good person, the villain and

explosion to the eye which is final final stage of

final destiny it can see, that is who, is this which

as for just one, you think in my doubt and continues

the final final stage⦠where Is this the final final

stage⦠where Is this the final final stage⦠where

Final destiny
end

This is why I don't use Babel Fish. This is why Japanese people you talk to using Babel Fish give you strange looks.

Just thought I'd share that with you all.