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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...
A Private Conversation | 私人谈话
The narrator recounts a frustrating experience at the theatre where a private conversation behind...
Not Your Mama's Chili | 此辣酱非彼辣酱
A young cowboy eagerly eats an old man's untouched bowl of chili, only to discover a shocking sec...
How Could Anyone Stoop So Low? | 谁能如此卑劣？
A beloved but short-statured restaurant manager angrily reports a pickpocketing. Amidst the stunn...
Emergency Call | 急诊电话
A panicked parent calls a doctor after their child swallows a pen, only to receive a humorous and...
The Supermarket Mother | 超市里的“妈妈”
A young man, moved by an elderly lady's story of her late son, agrees to call her "Mother" as she...
A Way to Make Money | 生财之道
A mother saves money by hand-washing a dress instead of dry-cleaning it, proudly telling her husb...
None Other Than a Soldier | 唯士兵而已
A new lieutenant learns a fundamental lesson about military service when a sergeant humorously po...