14-06-04 Two friends were having lunch at a caf in new York's Grand Central Terminal. They noticed a man sitting alone at an adjoining table. When the waitress approached him, they overheard her ask, Are you waiting to be joined by a tall, thin woman with lo...

14-05-29 A middle-aged couple went to the gallery. The wife who was nearsighted, stood in front of a mirror at the entrance, which she thought that it was a picture, and she saw a woman's image and cried out, Dear me, how could a woman be so ugly? Don't be s...

14-05-28 A man sat at a bar, had the saddest hangdog expression. Bartender: What's the matter? Are you having troubles with your wife? The man: We had a fight, and she told me that she wasn't going to speak to me for a month. Bartender: That should make you...

14-05-20 A man was reading a newspaper at a table, when his wife suddenly came to him and hit him on the back. The man was very surprised and asked: Why do you hit me? The wife answered: Who is Mary mentioned in the letter in your pocket? The man said: It wa...

14-05-14 Acting forthwith on this decision she ordered two little slaves during her absence to watch over the beautiful Persian, and not to allow Noureddin to enter should he come. She had no sooner gone than he arrived, and not finding his mother in her apa...

14-05-14 The Caliph, Haroun-al-Raschid, was much pleased with the tale of the blind man and the dervish（托钵僧） , and when it was finished he turned to the young man who had ill-treated his horse, and inquired his name also. The young man replied that he w...

14-05-09 A rich man and his wife went into a shop to buy a bracelet. Neither of them was very young. They looked at a lot of beautiful bracelets, and after half an hour there were two which they looked like very much, but they had not yet been able to choose...

14-05-09 As a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a severe stomachache. Thinking it was only some common intestinal（肠的） disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very s...

14-04-30 Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a controversial marriage bill legalising polygamy. 肯尼亚总统乌胡鲁肯雅塔签署一份有争议的法案成为法律，该法案将使一夫多妻合法化。 It brings civil law, where a man was only allowed one wife, into l...

14-04-14 An old man of seventy-six went to a doctor to request a general check up as to the state of his health. The doctor looked him up thoroughly, and then told him: Everything is fine. As the old man paid his fee, the doctor asked him: Have you followed...