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432 篇The Sleeping Congregant | 打瞌睡的会众
A preacher tries to shame a sleeping congregant by calling for votes on heaven and hell, but the ...
65 阅读The Umbrella | 雨伞
A gentleman tries to secure his umbrella with a boastful note, only to have it stolen by a thief ...
63 阅读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...
59 阅读Class, Lass and Ass | 班级、情人与蠢驴
A student alters a professor's notice from "meet the class" to "meet the lass" as a joke. The pro...
53 阅读The Shower Saver | 节水器的误会
A man at a home show humorously misunderstands the concept of "saving" water, thinking he would n...
45 阅读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...
77 阅读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,...
40 阅读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...
70 阅读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...
67 阅读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...
64 阅读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...
67 阅读Computer Illiterates | 电脑盲趣闻
Two humorous anecdotes about customers with a fundamental lack of computer knowledge. One tried t...
61 阅读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....
60 阅读Two Dollars | 两美元
A man cleverly tests a rude shopkeeper's valuation of his own merchandise, ultimately purchasing ...
56 阅读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...
66 阅读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...
49 阅读The Grounded Conductor | 接地气的调度员
A job applicant for a signalman position gives a series of increasingly improbable contingency pl...
62 阅读The Silent Ride | 无声飞行
A farmer takes a dare for a free airplane ride by staying silent, only to reveal the shocking rea...
57 阅读Napoleon Was Ill | 拿破仑病了
A student fails history for not knowing when Napoleon died. His father pleads for another chance,...
61 阅读The Blind Man | 盲人
A Mother Superior, assuming a visitor is visually impaired, speaks to him at length while showeri...
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