Bad Translation
An influential Londoner wound up a business
trip to the Orient with a visit to Taipei. At a luncheon
he was asked to say a few words. Since he spoke
not a word of Chinese, his address was to be
translated by an interpreter sentence by sentence.
"I want you to know," he began, "I'm tickled to death
to be asked here today."
A look of panicked confusion appeared on the
interpreter's face. "This poor man," he said in
Chinese, "Scratches himself until he dies, only
to be with you today."
#Deffective Parts
This speaks a lot about the quality of Japanese
products and their standards:
They're still laughing about this at IBM. Apparently
the computer giant decided to have some parts
manufactured in Japan as a trial project. In the
specifications, they stated that they will only accept
three defective parts per 10,000.
When the delivery came in there was an accompanying
letter. It said, "We Japanese had a hard time
understanding North American business practices.
2006-11-20 18:34:02 · 12 answers · asked by ettezzil 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
But the three defective parts per 10,000 have been
separately manufactured and have been included in
the consignment. Hope this pleases you."
2006-11-20 18:35:18 · update #1
hahahah.....nice ones.....who are fools?Americans or Japanese?......LOL
2006-11-20 18:41:37 · answer #1 · answered by Electric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This happened a long time ago, IBM was not involved, and it wasn't Japan.
American Gen. Westmoreland (old chicken and stars) had that experience in Viet Nam.
His greeting was translated as "You people cause me to itch, fatally" it was not considered funny at the time.
2006-11-20 18:39:33 · answer #2 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Second one is funny, Ha Ha Ha.
The first one--I'm still scratching-----my head.
2006-11-21 05:58:14 · answer #3 · answered by True Blue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The second one is great.
2006-11-20 22:56:31 · answer #4 · answered by St Harpy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
funny
2006-11-20 19:09:24 · answer #5 · answered by kitty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
funny
2006-11-20 19:04:06 · answer #6 · answered by Mary 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nice joke. keep it up
2006-11-22 21:29:45 · answer #7 · answered by airam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ha ha! great ones!
2006-11-20 18:54:25 · answer #8 · answered by 【ツ】ρεαcε! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont get it mr harvard!
2006-11-20 18:40:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
2nd is good!
2006-11-20 18:38:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋