Now here's an article from The Onion that I can relate to! I remember taking an interpretation/translation class, and the teacher talked about her teacher, who would often translate for President Bush. Bush liked his jokes and puns, which were often nigh untranslatable in Japanese. So what the translator would do is just deadpan the Japanese group he was translating for and say, "He just said a really, really bad joke. Just laugh and make him feel good." This alone would cause the group to laugh, so Bush thought his joke was what was doing it. Poor dumb bastard...
