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Do we really know them – Pogues?

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Re: Do we really know them – Pogues songs?

Post Mon May 16, 2005 5:51 am

Zuzana wrote:And finally one title of a special interest to this website: ;)
The Wake Of The Medusa – The Invocation of Medusa
Spooky... :)
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Re: Do we really know them – Pogues?

Post Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:57 pm

Zuzana wrote:...Let’s take The Pogues for a virtual tour around Europe. And because we live in a modern world, let’s use a modern tool, an online language translator, to adapt the line-up to local context properly...

...Do you really want The Pogues to travel around the world? ;)

P.S. Hope you didn’t take this too seriously... though the translating machine obviously did. :lol:

I only just found this thread.... laugh? Thanks Agent Z, now I need a lung transplant. :lol: :lol: :lol: Where's me Babel Fish?
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Post Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:38 am

I remember the first time I saw this, and actually crackin up over it - doesn't take much does it? Ahhhh the simple pleasures of life....
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Post Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:00 am

i just found this thread, SO funny...
a nice result of insomnia
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Post Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:53 am

Haven´t seen this one before, I´m still laughing :D :D :D :D
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Re: Do we really know them – Pogues?

Post Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:32 pm

Zuzana wrote:Serbian
Opiti nekoga i nasilno ga ukrcati kao mornara MacGowan, Pauk Prodreti, Jim Fearnley, Jem Mekan, Sekunda Težina , Supsidijarnost Znak, Strašan Drvo, Tobolac Priest
Shanghai MacGowan, Spider Breach, Jim Fearnley, Jem Mellow, Second Load, Subsidiary Chevron, Appalling Timber, Capsule Priest
... what happened to Shane in Serbian, is a sheer mystery. Fortunately, the back translation safely returned him to Asia.



Oh Lord, save me from these translations! :lol: Nothing ever comes good from translating to Serbian. Trust me oi know :lol:
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Post Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:40 pm

I'll translate what it really said in Dutch because somehow I never really got into thsi thread

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Schreef MacGowan (Wrote Macgowan), Spinner Nuchter (Spiderer Sobre!!!), Zij Zit Fearnley (She Sits Fearnley), Jem Vies Amechtig (Jem Dirty Almighty), Tweede Vrachtgoed (Second Carriage), Onderworpen aan Cheviot (Subdued to Cheviot), Verwonderlijk Rommel (Wonderous Garbage), Overkapping Unworldly (Overhead Unworldly)

Hmm :lol:
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Post Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:44 pm

well, oi wasn't planning but here ya go lol

Opiti nekoga i nasilno ga ukrcati kao mornara MacGowan =
to make someone drunk and violently put hem aboard as sailor MacGowan

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Post Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:50 pm

IrishRover wrote:well, oi wasn't planning but here ya go lol

Opiti nekoga i nasilno ga ukrcati kao mornara MacGowan =
to make someone drunk and violently put hem aboard as sailor MacGowan

:lol:


What's in a name :lol:
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Post Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:30 pm

Vilken väg till bomma till? Var er närmast Irisk Pub? Gör de tjäna Guinness? Den här er hjälpsam. Alltför dålig den inte anfall stöd Gaelic. :?
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Post Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:50 pm

Mick Molloy wrote:I'll translate what it really said in Dutch because somehow I never really got into thsi thread

Dutch
Schreef MacGowan (Wrote Macgowan), Spinner Nuchter (Spiderer Sobre!!!), Zij Zit Fearnley (She Sits Fearnley), Jem Vies Amechtig (Jem Dirty Almighty), Tweede Vrachtgoed (Second Carriage), Onderworpen aan Cheviot (Subdued to Cheviot), Verwonderlijk Rommel (Wonderous Garbage), Overkapping Unworldly (Overhead Unworldly)

Hmm :lol:


"Rommel" means "garbage" in dutch ? Don´t let Erwin the desert fox hear that ... :D
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Post Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:57 pm

The Duke of Ingmar wrote:
"Rommel" means "garbage" in dutch ? Don´t let Erwin the desert fox hear that ... :D


Yeah, sorry :wink:
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Re: Do we really know them – Pogues?

Post Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:07 am

Have been checking out the Classics. Got stuck at this thread! :lol: :lol:

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Re: Do we really know them – Pogues?

Post Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:33 pm

Great thread idea :D
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