@pganssle Did this stick out to you as a bad translation immediately when you heard it? I can't think of an Spanish idiomatic way to make that joke work with "bored" or "hungry" as we do in English. But maybe with "soy alto" or similar. But it would fall flat because the whole joke hinges on the ambiguity of "am" in English. (I'm not a native speaker.)

@poleguy Yeah it struck me as obviously weirdly direct, but my friend from Spain didn’t catch it until I pointed it out, so I was surprised to find that it wasn’t universally obvious.

@poleguy I am not an expert in Spanish, but as an expert in Dad jokes, I would play off the concrete vs metaphorical meanings. The goal is to interpret it as something that is a valid meaning according to the grammar, but not one that a normal person would ever interpret it as in that situation, like, “¡Tengo hambre!” “¡Ay no! ¡Debes dejarlo!” Or “¿Verdad? ¿Puedo verlo?”

“¡Estoy aburrida!” “¿Así es? ¿Dónde esta Burrida? ¿Está cercana?”