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Swedish sort of joke-sentence you get to learn in school:

"Far, får får får?"

"Nej, får får inte får, får får lamm."

English would be:

"Father, does sheep get sheep?"

"No, sheep does not get sheep, sheep gets lambs."

No, google translate does not make it unscathed through that sentence :-)




Aaron earned an iron urn.


This really only gets people with a certain accent though.



The The or Adam and the Ants or Bananarama?

I always wanted to start a Yello cover band called Purple, just to perform a song called "Oh No!"

Mmmmm, Ugly... More ugly... Such a bad time... A really bad time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJkdRaa04g


For doing that on hard/impossible setting, try doing it in Danish as a foreigner. Every person in Denmark I discussed language with, at one point gives this example.




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