What's a little humor between Doomsday players?
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went for a little joke today about resetting relations with the Russians, but it turned out the joke was on her.
Clinton, presenting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a gift-wrapped "reset" button, called the "little gift" symbolic of what President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have been saying about the U.S. and Russia.
""We want to reset our relationship," she said.
Yet something may have been lost in translation in the gift before closed-door talks in Geneva. The word on the button was meant to say "reset" in Russian.
"We worked hard to get the right Russian word," Clinton told Lavrov. "Do you think we got it?"
"You got it wrong," Lavrov replied - the word actually means "overcharge.''
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