The Star-Child | 星孩
The Star-Child, after giving away the red gold to the leper, returns to the city expecting punish...
The Jury's Dilemma | 陪审团的困境
A satirical critique of the jury system, suggesting that one's fate is decided by those who could...
The Price of Silence | 沉默的代价
A lawyer pays daily for a pretzel he never takes for years. When the vendor finally breaks the si...
The Lawyer's Answer | 律师的回答
A story about balloonists lost in fog who receive a technically correct but useless answer from a...
Guilty? | 有罪吗？
A lawyer argues his client's arm, not the man himself, committed burglary. The judge cleverly sen...
What's the Catch | 有何玄机
The devil offers a lawyer immense worldly success in exchange for the eternal damnation of his fa...
An Opponent Lost His Head | 对手丢了脑袋
A politician cleverly deflects a heckler's thrown cabbage by humorously remarking that an opponen...
Insane Dialogue | 疯人院对话
A humorous short dialogue set in an asylum, where one inmate's claim of being Napoleon, backed by...
Buy the Ice | 买冰记
A simpleton, sent to buy ice, delays returning home because he mistakenly believes he must dry th...
Proof of Identity | 身份证明
A man uses a photo of himself as proof of identity to claim a registered letter from a skeptical ...
What's Time to a Pig? | 时间对猪有何意义？
A city visitor questions a farmer's act of holding up a pig to eat apples, seeing it as inefficie...
Keep Feeding Him Nickels | 再喂他几枚镍币
A mother panics when her son swallows a nickel but coughs up two dimes. The father humorously sug...
Twenty-Four Hours | 二十四小时
A patient is told he has only 24 hours to live, only to discover the doctor has been trying to de...
Heaven or Hell? | 天堂还是地狱？
Bill Gates gets to choose between Heaven and Hell after death. Lured by a deceptive demo version ...
Three Affairs | 三则轶事
Three short, humorous stories involving ironic twists: a wife's cheeky admission about paternity,...
Return to Sender | 退回寄件人
A postal worker and his colleagues, moved by a destitute widow's letter to God, collect $96 to he...
A Surprising Encounter | 一次意外的相遇
During WWII, a woman visits her wounded pen pal in hospital, claiming to be his sister, only to b...
Speeding Blonde | 超速的金发女郎
A blonde driver, pulled over for speeding, humorously criticizes the police for inconsistency aft...
The Blonde Kidnapper | 金发绑匪
A desperate blonde kidnaps a boy for ransom, but the boy's mother, also a blonde, pays the ransom...
The Appliance Store | 电器商店
A blonde woman is denied a purchase at an appliance store because of her hair color. After disgui...
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