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Babel Fish
A living fish which, when placed in your ear, will live there and translate any form of language for you. (Read the full article)
| "Wild book ...author must have been drug induced!!
J" (JeffP of NH 5/25/2004 8:20:06 PM ) |
| "Isn't it funny how much of a complete piece of crap the actual translator is? That thing couldn't translate itself out of a wet nutsack.
" (Samuel Whatley 11/9/2004 3:01:33 PM ) |
| "well i guess that just about wraps it up for god " (mousehth72 1/27/2005 12:02:41 AM ) |
| "hey I've been using AV. Babel fish to strengthen my french for a year, and I've been familiar with humorous sci- fi novel THHGTTG. for years, (I also saw the film recently) But it took me this one long boring night to put the two and two together. I think it's a great name for a Langauge translating website. Thanks Technovelgy.com: for varifying this little neat fact with me ;)" (Beeart 7/19/2005 9:32:36 PM ) |
| "please, please include the part of the story that dicusses the liklihood of the babel fish evolving on its own and the ramifications of this (...and he vanished into a puff of logic)" ( 3/13/2006 9:08:19 AM ) |
| "I've got only one thing to say: read the book!!! You won't regret it" (Hinne 6/10/2007 2:54:23 AM ) |
| "There's actually an item advertised as an authentic babel fish on ebay Item number: 140229767398" ( 5/10/2008 3:25:07 PM ) |
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