Comments on: Joke from a Cute Little Girl http://toshuo.com/2005/joke-from-a-cute-little-girl/ Chinese, Linguistics, Science, Cultural Observations and whatever else I feel like writing about Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:08:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: menghsindy http://toshuo.com/2005/joke-from-a-cute-little-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-107 menghsindy Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:17:57 +0000 http://toshuo.com/?p=57#comment-107 Heh heh ... That's the SECOND instance I know of where a Taiwanese kid has successfully created a joke...! Usually they're such miserable attempts fit for Laffy Taffy wrappers like "Why did the bird eat the worm?" "Because he was sad." (?!?!) My first experience with successful joke-making came from a 2nd grader whose joke went something like this: Why is Willy Wonka so fat? <i>Because he ate a chocolate FAT-TREE</i>. ... which kind of makes sense, if you know how sloppy kids' pronunciation can get. =) Heh heh … That’s the SECOND instance I know of where a Taiwanese kid has successfully created a joke…! Usually they’re such miserable attempts fit for Laffy Taffy wrappers like “Why did the bird eat the worm?” “Because he was sad.” (?!?!)

My first experience with successful joke-making came from a 2nd grader whose joke went something like this:

Why is Willy Wonka so fat?
Because he ate a chocolate FAT-TREE.

… which kind of makes sense, if you know how sloppy kids’ pronunciation can get. =)

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