The Blonde Swimmer | 金发游泳选手
A blonde swimmer, finishing far behind her competitors in a breaststroke race, receives a bronze ...
One Point | 一分之差
A freshman observes the year-marked basketballs in decades of team photos and mistakenly interpre...
A Boy's Clever Answer | 男孩的巧妙回答
A minister asks a boy his age and receives a clever, context-dependent answer that reveals childh...
Honesty in Insurance | 保险中的诚实
A man is denied life insurance for truthfully reporting his parents' early deaths. After being ad...
Keep Feeding Him Nickels | 再喂他几枚五分镍币
A mother panics when her son swallows a nickel but coughs up two dimes; the father humorously sug...
The Smart Dog Who Buys Newspapers | 会买报纸的聪明狗
A dog owner's claim that his dog buys newspapers is tested, but the dog disappears with the money...
The Smartest Kid | 最聪明的孩子
A barber tries to prove a boy is foolish by offering him a choice between a dollar and two quarte...
What to Borrow? | 他到底想借什么
Mr. Johnson cleverly asks to borrow a tennis racket after confirming Mr. Smith will be using his ...
I Know Who God Is! | 我知道上帝是谁了！
A boy tries to understand God's nature by asking about gender, race, and sexuality. His mother gi...
I Thought I Had Gone Deaf | 我还以为我聋了
A farmer, relieved to learn his wife fell out of the car, had mistaken her absence for his own de...
The Customer Is Always Right | 顾客永远是对的
A shop manager scolds an employee for arguing with a customer, insisting "the customer is always ...
Who Is to Blame? | 该怪谁
A woman hit at a junction is blamed by the man and a biased witness, who admits his judgment is i...
I'm the Devil | 魔鬼的妹夫
A wife dresses as the Devil to scare her drunken husband into sobriety, but his witty retort turn...
Can We Have Our Teacher Back? | 我们的老师何时能回来？
A school superintendent mistakenly disciplines a tall, noisy student, only to discover from a you...
Change Your Business | 换个工作
A doctor prescribes more walking to a patient suffering from lack of exercise, only to discover t...
How to Get a Seat by the Fire | 火炉旁的座位妙计
On a cold day, Mr. Brown cleverly diverts a crowded inn's patrons by claiming his horse eats oyst...
I Was the Foreman | 我是领班
Peter explains his job loss by humorously claiming the real foreman fired him out of jealousy bec...
The Cat Examination | 猫咪检查
A doctor asks a patient basic questions about a cat's anatomy, leading to the patient's sarcastic...
Who's More Polite? | 谁更有礼貌？
A fat man and a skinny man debate politeness, each citing their own courteous gestures. | 一个胖子和一个...
The King's Brother | 国王的兄弟
A poor man claims kinship with the King of Spain by citing their shared descent from Adam and Eve...
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