20-Mar-2012, 3:21 PM
Two tomatoes were crossing the street, when one of them was hit by a car.
The other one said, "Don't worry, you can ketch'up later!"
I know, this is the oldest joke ever, but do you know the funny thing? This is, like, _the_ most famous joke among small kids in Sweden, and I remember us using to think it was so funny when I was little. However, this joke makes absolutely no sense in Swedish. It goes like this:
Two tomatoes were crossing the street, when one of them was hit by a car.
The other one said, "Come one ketchup, let's go." (and obviously ketchup has nothing what so ever to do with 'catch up' in Swedish.)
We just thought it was very funny to call a poor smashed tomato "ketchup". It was only years and years later (like just a couple of years ago) that I learned there was an original english version with an actual pun in it...
The other one said, "Don't worry, you can ketch'up later!"
I know, this is the oldest joke ever, but do you know the funny thing? This is, like, _the_ most famous joke among small kids in Sweden, and I remember us using to think it was so funny when I was little. However, this joke makes absolutely no sense in Swedish. It goes like this:
Two tomatoes were crossing the street, when one of them was hit by a car.
The other one said, "Come one ketchup, let's go." (and obviously ketchup has nothing what so ever to do with 'catch up' in Swedish.)
We just thought it was very funny to call a poor smashed tomato "ketchup". It was only years and years later (like just a couple of years ago) that I learned there was an original english version with an actual pun in it...