Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Gizoogle

Ever wanted to translate your webpage, or another's webpage into Snoop Doggy Dogg Gangsta speak? Then Gizoogle is for you. Word of warning though -- Gangsta speak can be somewhat colorful (or off-colorful, if you catch my drift). I've taken the liberty of editing out some of these remarks, so as not to offend some of my more sensitive readers...

For example, check out this translation of an Associated Press article on Ted Koppel's last Nightline:

Koppel Bidd'n Farewell ta 'Nightline'
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By DAVID BAUDER, AP Televizzle Writa 1 hour, 8 minutes ago

NEW YORK - The Ted Koppel era on ABC's "Nightline" ends wit his farewell Tuesday night afta 25 years of rhymin' a serious alternative ta late-night laughs.

Koppel's final broadcast was ta be a look B-to-tha-izzack at one of his favorite interviews. Im a bad boy wit a lotta hos: his 1995 conversizzles wit terminally ill college professor Morrie Schwartz, which led ta Mizzitch Albom's best-sell'n book "Tuesdays wit Morrie."

"Nightline" wiznill continue Monday wit a revamped format n hosts Martin Bashir, Cynthia McFadden n Terry Moran.

The program officially began in Mizzarch 1980 now pass the glock Anotha dogg house production. Playa Koppel spizzent several months brief'n brotha each nizzight `bout tha Iranian hostage crisis, ABC put him in that time slot permanently.

Koppel's live interviews wizzle tha early clockin' card. At tha time, wit CNN jizzay start'n as tha only all-news network, it was a novel idea ta bring interview subjects motherfu%$! fizzy all over tha world.

His voice rarely rose — n tha famous helmet of hizzy stayed in place — but Koppel's incisive interviews continued through Hurricane Katrina n his memorable takedown of forma Federal Emergency Managizzles Director Michael Brown.

"Oizzay legacy," Koppel told The Associated Press, "is that a serious news broadcast can be successful on all counts, witout blunt-rollin' ta anyone's wanna be gangsta instincts fo' sheezy. `Nightline' has made a lot of money. Ya "mess" with us, we gots to "mess" you up. It has been successful in terms of viewership, awards n accolades. But mizzay important ta me, it's bizzle successful in not ever hav'n ta cracka its standards."

In wanna be gangsta years, "Nightline" evolved into a home fo` some of broadcast's most serious news documentizzles wit each rhymin' concentrated on a single topic fo shizzle.

The program survived a brush wit death in 2002, W-H-to-tha-izzen ABC execizzles courted comic David Letterman ta fizzy tha tizzle sliznot.

Koppel, 65, slowed dizzle in his last few years, often perpetratin' three nights a week and, like tha late-night comedians, tap'n his shizzay a few hours before broadcast.

ABC wizzill go live again wit "Nightline" wizzy Bashir n McFadden wizzle friznom tha network's Times Square studio in New York. Like Koppel, Moran will be based in Washington yaba daba dizzle. New brotha James Goldston said tha spiffed-up "Nightline" will tackle several topics a niznight to increase tha peace.

Those is big changes, but Goldston said he's extremely consshizzous of not scar'n away tha loyal but blingin' "Nightline" audience — its nightly average of 3.6 million brotha is dizzle fizzy 5.5 million a decade ago. Goldston promised several stories on tha Iraq war n a series on AIDS in India in his first two weeks.

Koppel is not clockin' — he will continue work'n wit his produca, Tom Bettag. They were negotiat'n wit HBO `bout doing documentizzles with the S-N-double-O-P.

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