COMICS酷漫

A: Do you have any kids?

B: Please don’t mention that. It’s so traumatic for me.

A: Oh, I’m so sorry! What happened?

B: Well, my wife’s grandfather arranged for a man to marry my mother-in-law. But some bastard came between them before they could get married.

A: Yes, and then what happened?

B: Well, I can’t have a kid with a wife that wasn’t born, can I?

This joke is adapted from Xiaolin Guangji (《笑林广记》, Extensive Gleaning from the Forests of Laughter ), a joke book published in 1781 that epitomized Chinese humor.

ANSWERS FOR LAST ISSUE

Across: 2. 心电图 4.春节 6. 拉萨 8. 金婚 9. 计划生育

Down: 1. 烈日灼心 3. 阿拉木图 5. 电视节目 7. 晚婚晚育 9. 计算机 10. 生二胎

CROSS WORD

ACROSS

1. Monkey King’s hometown in Journey to the West

3. A couple that remains happy for 100 years

5. PE teacher

7. An island city-state with a lion head as its national symbol

9. A large ethnic group concentrated in Guangxi

DOWN

2. A flower could be made as tea and the name of a Chinese folk song

4. Basic arithmetic

6. Mountain collapse

8. Annual rings of wood

10. A Chinese idiom to say someone is old but vigorous

11. Chinese idiom for someone who thinks they know everything and tries to teach it