I laughed. I cried. I blew snot out my nose.

Okay, I didn't cry, but I thought this was pretty funny.

This picture and the following text appeared in "The Year in Stupidity" in the February 2009 issue of Reader's Digest. (I only wish I could make up something this good.)

Days after posting a bilingual traffic sign in Swansea, Wales, officials were alerted to a problem. The English half was fine, but the Welsh, which had been e-mailed to the translator and returned minutes later, read, when translated back into English, "I am not in the office. Send any work to be translated."