Cultural (mis)understandings and a joke

Two good (=funny) cultural misunderstandings:

The hummus-seller asked my roommate today if there are dinosaurs in America. My roommate replies that there are dinosaur bones pretty much all over the world. But the hummus-seller clarifies "no, I mean live ones!"

?!?!

We can only hope he saw Jurassic Park or something.

Also, about a month and a half ago, we were talking with the bread-seller and he asked us how you say "America" in "foreign". We tried vainly to explain to him that there are several thousand languages that are not Arabic, and that we don't all speak "foreign" outside of Syria, but it was hopeless. He just sort of looked at us and then asked again "right, so anyway how do you say America in foreign?"

And the joke: the CIA, KGB, and the Syrian secret police decided to have a friendly competition. They released three gazelles into the forest, and each team needed to find their gazelle. As soon as the competition started, the Americans were on their GPS, using live satellite surveillance to find movement in the area indicative of a gazelle. Not more than five minutes passed and the Americans tracked down their gazelle. Meanwhile, the KGB was out in force combing the area. With hundreds of plain-clothes agents, they knocked down trees, up-rooted plants, and found the gazelle without too much time passing. The Americans and Russians waited some six hours and still hadn't heard anything from their Syrian counterparts. Finally, they went looking for them, and found several Syrian secret police with a bunny tied up and one of the agents whipping the bunny screaming "Admit you're a gazelle! Admit you're a gazelle!" haha