Jokes that don't translate

[Dustin]

Q. なぜシンデレラは良いサッカー選手になれなかったのか？

A. 彼女は靴をなくし、舞踏会から逃げ、馬車はカボチャだったから。

Why wasn't cinderella a good soccer player?

Because she lost her shoes, runs from the ball, and has a pumpkin for a coach!




**got ninja'd by Furrykef cause I was too busy talking to phreadom in chat **

[NileCat]

Don't forget to answer mine from earlier:

Q: 茶色のくっつくものは、何という？
A: 棒。

What is brown and sticky?
A stick.


A　「目のない鹿のことを何ていう？」
B　「わかりません」

A　「死んだ目のない鹿のことは何ていう？」
B　「まだわかりません」

[Dustin]

Don't forget to answer mine from earlier:

Q: 茶色のくっつくものは、何という？
A: 棒。

What is brown and sticky?
A stick.

/facepalm

[furrykef]

A　「目のない鹿のことを何ていう？」
B　「わかりません」

A　「死んだ目のない鹿のことは何ていう？」
B　「まだわかりません」

What do you call a deer with no eyes?
No idear ("No-eye deer")

What do you call a dead deer with no eyes?
Still no idear

Good one!

Let's see now...

Q: 足のない牛のことを何ていう？
A: 挽肉

[Dustin]

Q: 足のない牛のことを何ていう？
A: 挽肉

What do you call a cow with no legs?

Ground beef!

[furrykef]

Well, pbbthh. Got a follow-up?

[chikara]

....
Q: 足のない牛のことを何ていう？
A: 挽肉

Minced beef

That joke doesn't translate into Australian or British English. I only know what "ground beef" is because I lived in the USA for a time. I don't believe that term is used outside of North America.

Q: あなたはどこで足のない牛を見付けますか
A: どこに置きました

[NileCat]

Q: あなたはどこで足のない牛を見付けますか
A: どこに置きました

Q: Where do you find a cow with no legs?
A: Where did you leave it?

correct?

[furrykef]

I'm pretty sure that's the joke, but it doesn't seem to rely on an untranslatable quality. (By which I mean it isn't necessarily funny in Japanese -- I wouldn't know -- but it seems comprehensible, though the translation seems overly literal.)

[Disco]

A:ね、ちゃんとお風呂に入りますか？
B:はい
A: キモイ！姉ちゃんとお風呂に入りますか？！ｗ

[chikara]

Q: あなたはどこで足のない牛を見付けますか
A: どこに置きました

Q: Where do you find a cow with no legs?
A: Where did you leave it?

correct?

Where you left it.

I'm pretty sure that's the joke, but it doesn't seem to rely on an untranslatable quality. ...

Oh

[ss]

NileCat wrote:

Furrykef wrote:
Don't forget to answer mine from earlier:

Q: 茶色のくっつくものは、何という？
A: 棒。

What is brown and sticky?
A stick.

Furrykef, what's the answer?

[Dustin]

NileCat wrote:

Furrykef wrote:
Don't forget to answer mine from earlier:

Q: 茶色のくっつくものは、何という？
A: 棒。

What is brown and sticky?
A stick.

Furrykef, what's the answer?

The answer is a stick, it's brown, and "stick"y ( sticklike ) LOL

[ss]

I thought it was a "lipstick". You know, there are many colors, and I do keep a brown lipstick in my bag, sometimes.

[furrykef]

Yep, Dustin's got it.