Thursday, May 29, 2008

Humor with Sichuan characteristics

478 miles since lille abe via FlickrChina Digital Times gives a great overview of Sichuan jokes related to their earthquake. The outside world has never associated China much with humor, it mostly was a culturally too distant humor. But these Sichuan jokes are great:
* An old man in Beichuan, dragged out by a Russian rescue team. The first thing he said was “This is one hell of an earthquake, it shook me all the way to a foreign country!”
More at CDT.

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