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Perfect Match | 完美匹配
A painter becomes famous by perfectly matching a wall to a client's vase, only to reveal years la...
Redneck Family Tree | 混乱的家族树
A humorous poem depicting an absurdly convoluted family tree created through a series of unconven...
Identification | 身份证明
A man uses a personal photograph as identification to successfully claim a registered letter from...
Only Once | 仅此一次
A novice lion tamer reveals during an interview that he only put his head in a lion's mouth once,...
Prepositions | 介词
A student's grammatically incorrect question about a library location is pedantically corrected b...
The Hybrid Pulse D/A Converter | 混合脉冲D/A变换器
A shopper questions a salesperson about the technical term 'hybrid pulse D/A converter' on a CD p...
The Alligator and the Shoes | 鳄鱼与鞋
A woman, determined to get affordable alligator shoes, decides to hunt her own alligator in the L...
Monkey Business | 带它去动物园
A policeman misunderstands his boss's order to take a stray monkey to the zoo, instead treating i...
Free Drinks For Everybody | 人人有份的免费酒水
A drunk man repeatedly offers to buy drinks for everyone but never pays, getting thrown out each ...
A Busy Man's Wit | 忙人的机智
A man cleverly outwits mischievous children who ask him to fetch birds' eggs, by securing his boo...
The Painted Vase | 被粉刷的花瓶
A painter solves an impossible color-matching task by cleverly altering the original vase, not th...
I Need A Raise | 我需要加薪
An employee uses "S" symbols to hint at needing a "Salary" raise, while the boss cleverly replies...
The Beautiful Hat | 漂亮的帽子
Mr. Jones loses his hat out of a train window and throws his bag out too, believing that the addr...
Computer Illiterates | 电脑盲趣闻
Two humorous anecdotes about customers with a fundamental lack of computer knowledge. One tried t...
He Thinks He's a Refrigerator | 他以为自己是台冰箱
A woman seeks help for her husband's delusion of being a refrigerator, but her real concern is th...
Hogarth's Red Sea | 霍迦斯的红海
Hogarth, commissioned to paint Pharaoh crossing the Red Sea, received only half his expected fee....
Deep in the Hills | 深山之中
A reclusive old man mistakes his own reflection in a mirror for a portrait of his father and trad...
The Misaddressed Email | 错发的邮件
A husband's vacation email to his wife is accidentally sent to a grieving widow, whose contents c...
Two Dollars | 两美元
A man cleverly tests a rude shopkeeper's valuation of his own merchandise, ultimately purchasing ...
King and Knave | 国王与无赖
George III asks wit Horne Tooke if he plays cards. Tooke cleverly replies that he is a novice who...