A joke in Spanish and English, but the punchline is different in each, despite being the same joke. (My Spanish may well be rusty as it's been a while)

De donde se van los gatos cuando mueren? Purgatorio (focus on gato)

Where do cats do when they die? Purrgatory (focus on purr)

oohh, recuerdo ese

my dad always said we shouldn’t buy a nova “porque no va”

i love when jokes work in both languages

i like that!

Similarly, Swedish has

• ”Farfar, får får får?” (Grandpa, do sheep have sheep?)
• ”Nej, får får inte får, får får lamm”. (No, sheep don’t have sheep, sheep have lambs)

It doesn't work as well spoken, though? Pretty sure Police is pronounced something like po-lee-tseh.

Also, I think you might have swapped a police with Police: "Police police, (whom) Police police police, police Police police."

There are several versions of these kinds of puns in German, one version:

Wenn Grillen Grillen grillen, grillen Grillen Grillen.

When crickets barbecue crickets, then crickets are barbecuing crickets.

Hah! That's interesting! I wonder if that's purely by coincidence, or if there is some etymological reason for this.

Also relevant: Americans think Bison and Buffalo are the same type of animal.

I'd betting more on pure coincidence -- especially since the number 7 (yedi) derives from the proto-Turkic "*jëtï" and the past tense verb of "having eaten" (yedi) is an eclectic mix of the word for food (yemek) and eating (yermek) with a past second-person suffix (-di). I'd wager the universe just rolled snake-eyes on this one!

Thanks for sharing

Not exactly in my language, but Lipton used to have an advert for their ice tea “Limone” in Japan. A lady sing a jingle, and in the middle of it she’d exclaim 「おいちい」, meaning “delicious.” However, 「ちい」could also be interpreted as the English word tea. Thus an appropriate translation of the pun would be "tealicious."

Did a quick search and found the advert in question.

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