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Carpe Diem - Fish of the Day
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One player will provide a word or phrase in another language, and the next will furnish us with an erudite translation and then a word or phrase of their own...
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Rubber, gas, cancer, the DHSS... that's life.

Den som gräver en grop åt andra faller själv däri.

Den is some groover! But he did grope the outside of Andrea, and fell over, being slightly doozy.

Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin.

That gents' lavatory seems oddly popular today.

Gotterdämmerung
Ascend the woman's ladder.

And, to keep gil happy,

matkailutoimisto

Thank you, rab. This, of course, literally means "Never rely on cattle to find their way in fog". (A well-known Finnish proverb - now used to designate Tourist Bureaux)

Ratgeber und Rundfahrten

Literally "Ratgobbler and Roundfarter", this is a popular German sitcom about an eponymous firm of lawyers.

si vis pacem, para bellum

If life is peaceful, it seems beautiful.

Die hellen Funken, welche dem Beschauer,
Genährt von Strahlen, die der Sonn entsprühten,
Wann sie versank, des Lichtes Blick vergüten,
Sie leben selbst nur eine Blumentrauer.
Dos Equis -- two horses
[ignoring mick, who seems to be playing to different rules]

Death is funky as hell, like going to Wales for a shower,
Get arty as you're strolling, sprout yourself in the Sun,
When you fall down, lick the licky bit of a gun,
You levitate yourself, now behind the trail, plant a flower

Vége jó minden jó.

Eat vegetables and grow thin.

si monumentum requiris, circumspice

We need a statue of the Sporty Spice.

A mulher e a sardinha querem-se da mais pequenina

[Ibid] Almost eggsactly what I had in mind - but with Jewish Spice instead. :o)
If I eat another sardine I'll turn into a penguin.

Ta bean in Eirinn a phronnfadh sead damh is mo shaith le n-ol

Thanks for putting the bean in, Erin - on the phone, my father said, "Damn, it's more than my job's worth."

Rehellisyys maan perii.

RE: Hell is a man called Pierre

J-P
You're on to something here, but can't you say something more general? Does he have to be named Pierre? Only one man? Just men -- or women too? Maybe it's all other people you mean? Think about it.
Yrs, Simone.

Voetsek!
Voter apathy

'Kto pierdz'i ten s'mierdz'i'
The Japanese horse has done ten poos!

Miraa-san no otoo-san to okaa-san wa ogenki desu ka.
The Ford Ka design brief openly stated there were to be no mirrors, no toilets and no whales included.

Mann og viv er eitt liv.

A man with wide eyes has eight lives.

O-negai shimas

[Raak] erm . . repetition [4 or so pages back] - so I will also repetish my previous translation:
My veins contain blood that is both rare and glistening.

Willst meinem schätzchen dich machen beliebt?

If I have a crap, will you believe me? (Said to a customs officer who suspects one of carrying illegal substances in a dark place.)

[Chalky] What can I say but:
sumimasen

The new enforcement branch of the Freemasons is made up of large Japanese types in small underwear.

Carthago delenda est
I'm renting out my carthorse.

I dag raud, i morgon daud.

I was a navvy because my father was Welsh.

Si monumentum requiris, circumspice.

Victoria insists that it is imperative that the statue of David show the lad circumcised.

Consiga su pie de mi bola

I'll give you a pie if you can clean bowl me.

Xondo wako
This was how The Sun originally broke the news of Kubla Khan's excessive pleasure-dome building.

Den Menschen mit dem Himmel verbinden: eine Studie zu den katechetischen Homilien des Theodor von Mopsuestia
Dan mentioned putting the hammer in the bin: a study of the cat-cheating home loan of St. Theodore of the Swiss Mop.

trockenbeerenauslese

The stone in my drink renders it useless.

Abrochense los cinturatos

A broach was lost in the tumble-dryer

Trekken voor uitgaang

The gang of four are now known as 'The Group of Odd Walkers' (i.e. - Roughly translated - "The Ministry of Funny Walks")
Err ...

Una comida y yo decentes somos cualquier persona

This is the advertising line for a Spanish remake of "Queer as Folk": "A comedy about ten somewhat queer people."

domo arigato gozaimasu

The Millennium dome will be disassembled and shipped to a farm in Malta.

Overstaap bij brug

Fall off the bridge.

D'er ingen så lang han ei må tøya seg, og ingen så låg han ei må bøya seg.

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