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Jon Stewart, on the January 17, 2005 episode of The Daily Show:

Although to be fair, an army spokesman says the firings were brought about not by bigotry, but by a simple misunderstanding, when the general asked his secretary to give him an arabic translator -- not realizing that in sex parlance, an arabic translator is a cleveland steamer crossed with an inverted rusty trombone.

Suffice to say, there was quite a mess in the officer's mess hall that day! I can't believe it...