Funny stories from college pt 1

This story isn't actually about something that happened to me, it's a story that a professor told in class. This was an engineering class while I was still enrolled in the school of engineering.

NASA and the Russian Space Administration shares data from experiments they conduct. The Russians sent a report about testing that they had done on the strength of a metal they used on a wing. The reports have to be translated from Russian to English. In the report, it stated that they used "wet male sheep" for one of the tests. It was known that the Russians had different ways of doing things over there, but the NASA engineers found it hard to imagine a shepherd leading some sheep out onto the wing of a plane. They also wondered how being male and wet was significant.

So they returned the report to the translators and asked that an engineering translator be used this time. When they got the report back, they quickly turned to the "wet male sheep" page. Of course they all had a good laugh when the correct translation turned out to be "hydraulic ram".