Lost In Translation

(Sourced from Reader’s Digest, January 2009)

A mobster discovers that his deaf accountant has cheated him out of ten million bucks. He confronts him, bringing along an interpreter.

“Ask him where the money is,” the mobster says.

The interpreter does so, and the accountant signs back, “What are you talking about?”

The mobster puts a pistol to the bookkeeper’s head. “Ask him again!”

The interpreter signs, “He’ll kill you if you don’t tell him!”

“OK! OK!” the bookkeeper signs back. “The money is buried behind the shed in my cousin Pauly’s backyard!”

“What’d he say?” asks the don.

“He says you don’t have the guts to pull the trigger.”