Results tagged “jokes”

A Shanghai-based English copywriter has discovered some hilarious Chinglish slogans, including a new one for Haibao that explains the Shanghai Expo mascot's consistently happy visage. Since we've previously determined that Haibao is a boy mascot, all we can think of say to his slogan is... "Really? So soon?"

While the Cultural Revolution was no laughing matter, it seems that some clever Chinese were able to get a chuckle or two from skewing political rhetoric behind closed doors.

Here's one shared by Tim Johnson of China Rises:

“At the closing ceremonies, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge announces that the IOC has decided that the next Olympics will be held again in Beijing instead of London since the games were so successful. The news sends millions of Chinese into a faint. Even the doctors swoon. Only the police are strong enough to withstand the news, and they immediately shout in unison: “Go to hell, Rogge!”

The other joke is on "You and me" the song sung by Sarah Brightman and Liu Huan at the Olympic opening ceremony which is now said to be a song about rising oil and food prices, since "you" in Chinese is a homonym for oil (油) while "mi" sounds like rice (米).

Hilarious sh*t once again from our favourite news network — nearly, but not as good as this other report.

Via a new blog called Speak4China which comes with the hearty recommendation of the China Law Blog: On the day the Wenchuan earthquake struck, these students from a Sichuan high school were evacuated from their building and to while away their time, they took this video of themselves pretending to do an earthquake interview on live television. One girl said she didn't care about her parents and only for the pop duo Twins, another said she hoped there was an earthquake everyday and a third said she hoped the school building would collapse soon so they didn't have to go to school ever again. This soon unleashed yet another powerful "human flesh search engine" (not unsimilar to the one experienced by Duke university student Grace Wang) in which enraged netizens tracked down the students and harrassed them in every way possible (no details on how they were harrassed though).