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From: ee161agt@sdccs5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Humorous bad translations.
Message-ID: <1128@sdccs5.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Nov-83 04:02:47 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 18 04:02:47 1983
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Organization: U.C. San Diego, Computer Center
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Here's a bad translation that baffled me for a while, until I figured it out
and rolled on the floor laughing.

>From 1975 FIAT 128 station wagon owner's manual:

butterfly strangulation valve. 

Which of course is what the Italians call the ** CHOKE ** .
			
Paul van de Graaf
U. C. San Diego