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Bilingual pun

A bilingual pun is a pun in which a word in one language is similar to a word in another language.

Which is better, snow or milk?
Better leite than neve.

"My name is J�nsson, with two pricks over the first 'o'".
(prick is Swedish for dot)

"The plane took of with a great fart and disappeared in the horizon as a prick"
Norwegian. Fart is how you would spell 'speed'. Prick is 'dot'.

"What a mess you have made!"
Norwegian. Mess is (almost) the word for 'conference'.