Lost In Translation

I was confirming for a friend that the song "I Shot the Sheriff" was by Bob Marley originally, and not Eric Clapton.

According to wikipedia, there are three cover versions of the song in Swedish, Ukrainian, and German.

The Swedish and German ones are pretty close (as far as title is concerned), but when I glanced over the Ukrainian one, it read "Who've shitted in the police car".

Oh those wacky Ukrainians!

Did you know Mila Kunis, that chick from That 70's Show and the voice of Meg from Family Guy is Ukrainian? Did you know she learned English from watching TV? Meditate on that.

And since we're on the subject of Babblefish-worthy translations, I was in Germany years ago in a video store, and there, on the shelf, was the film What Planet Are You From? with Gary Shandling and Annette Benning, although their English translated title was Good Vibrations.

If you haven't seen the movie, Shandling plays an alien who comes to earth to impregnate a human woman and his penis vibrates because apparently aliens didn't take into account what ET penis would do if it got a human erection.

So if you meet a man who's member mumbles, be careful, he might be an alien trying to impregnate you with his otherworldly juices. Or, more likely, he's got one of those little vibrating eggs on the underside of his dick and that's just how he rolls.