Hello the dark, my old friend.

under the category of 'more machine translation goodness'... apparently someone else is interested in the irreversible effects of machine translation and went so far as to hold a contest to see if people could guess popular song lyrics that had been translated to and from another language using AltaVista's BabelFish.

One of my favorites is "Like a Rolling Stone":

"Once on a time you dressed so very well. You sent the vague ones to the currency of ten cents in your premium, not you?"

Check it out:
http://themukreport.blogspot.com/2006/01/entropy-of-online-translation.html


...and here are the answers.