right, then.

i've seen this in various places --

You go find a song that everybody knows and put the lyrics into the Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/).  Translate them from English to German, then German to French, and then French to English.  Then post here with 3 clues.  See who gets the song  right first.

y'all don't need clues, do you?

Before I can recall calmly a long length time, me to form me to smile like this music to used.  And I knew, if I had the probability that I could make dance these people and that perhaps they would be happy for one moment.  But me Shiver with each paper that I would deliver -- bad information at the stage of door, formed February; I could not reach another stage.  I cannot remember, above if I cried, when I read must on his widowed, something me in the day have however affected deeply which it music died.

[ETA: yes, it is in fact "american pie" by mr. don mclean; well done cannons_at_dawn and maliwane.  for extra fun, i ran the same text through the translator a few more times:  (1) original english into dutch; (2) dutch into french; (3) french into greek; and (4) greek back into english. this is what it came up with:

Long, ypofeme'nos for a lot, I can still remind how this music that is used for the mice you make.  And with have it knows or I had the probability that I have they can I make this dance of person and they' perhaps d am eytyhi' for tijdje.  But February I have made Or d with ka'c a written grelote bad news in the most minimum limit I provide?  I do not have it can I touch upon more the metre.  I cannot me remind if I have fwnahtej' in that moment with regard to widowed his bride I have read, but something with it has touched upon the deep in the kentroce'tisi of day music it has died.

and the thing is? you'd probably all still have got it, thanks to the fact that the last five words include "day", "music", and "died". ;-) ]

and another one --

-- that's probably quite easy.

You represent in a boat on a river, with of Tangerinebaeumen and the skies of jam.  You, call somebody you answer rather slowly, a girl eyes kaleidescope above.  Zellophanblumen of yellow and an ecologist towering on your head; seek the girl with the sun in him eyes and they gone... consequences you him to the bottom with a bridge of a well, in which Eibischtorten people eat the horse of oscillation.

right, then (again):

Every person on your flist (and i will even graciously expand it to my f-of list) gets to request a drabble (real drabble: 100 words exactly) from you.  In return, they have to post this in their journal and write a drabble for you.  Post all fandoms you're willing to write for.  Your friends can pick a relationship, a story arc, a missing scene, or pretty much anything they want, unless the author has previously mentioned that they will not write it. They comment with what they want, and you write drabbles and post it in your LiveJournal.

fandoms:
Star Wars (either trilogy); The Sentinel; Due South; Harry Potter; Law & Order (the original series, and pretty much by the time the blonde chick was the assistant DA i lost track of the characters, just FYI)