I remember reading this in the UK Daily Mirror back in the 60s (so it must be true!): some Britsh academics were touring Russia giving talks on the life and works of Charles Dickens, who they described as "writing about life under Victorian captialism" ... only, their interpreter (obviously English!) said "victorious captialism" by mistake. Went down like a lead Soyuz.

And if my wife is around when I'm singing, she always (after al these years) assumes there's a message in my choice of song. I usually try and include Jesse Fuller's "I don't know why I love you like I do", or "Fathom the bowl, with the wonderful line "My wife, shes a bitch".

There was a UK band called The Black Country Three (Jon Raven et al), and they went to Spain about thirty-odd years ago. They were in a cantina singing English songs one night, and the locals asked them if they knewanything in Spanish; they foolishly obliged with the only Spanish song they knew, "Viva la Quince Brigata" from the communist side of the Civil War. Went down like a lead globo.