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Originally Posted by FrenchSkin
I think the meaning of this got lost in translation... As of know it means "You know what they say, a horse in the garage is two in the ground" ...
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Now I know how wars get started. I'm not sure, but I think I read somewhere that los panda's great grandfather was an interpreter for talks between Kaiser Wilhelm and the French government prior to WWI.
President Jimmy Carter visited Poland a long time ago and he thought he said to the crowd "I'd like to know all of you" but, alas, the American translator used the Polish word for "know" in the biblical sense. Fortunately, the crowd realized what happened and cracked up laughing.