babel_fish hitchhiker p2 The Babel fish, is small, yellow, and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it.It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish. Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything that mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isnt it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you dont. QED." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadnt thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingos kidneys, but that didnt stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-selling book, Well That about Wraps It Up for God. Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation. 041118 ... Oolon Colluphid hits collection Where God Went Wrong, More of God's Greatest Mistakes Who is this God Person, Anyway? 041118 ... () (hoopy frood p2) 041118 ... magicforest actually fell off her chair laughing 041118 ... sameolme Thanks, may you swim always in babbling brooks. 041118 ... aM i DiStUrBeD? babel_fish is actually a website, part of its tantalising features include a translation section. Which is, indeed, very useful for translating French homework. If you're into that sort of thing of course. ^_^ 041119 ... :) the babel_fish website took it's name from the babel fish in Adams' Hitchhiker books 041119 ... sameolme Oh! I thought somebody (hitchhiker p2) just made the babelfish up. Thanks 041119 ... p2 sorry i should have given credit where credit is due excerpt taken from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy aka HHGG written by Douglas Adams 041119 ... suicidalchinadoll *love* 041119 ... blown cherry And DNA in turn took it from the biblical story set in the days when there was only one language for all peopl eon earth. The story tells of the Babylonians who built a massive tower (ie. the tower of Babel) in an attempt to reach the heavens and as a monument of their own brilliance. This act of arrogance angered god and as punishment he damned the Babylonians with a variety of different tongues. 041209 ... 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