My wife recently introduced me to the humor site 一日一囧 (Jiong.ws). The videos she showed me were crude animations, each telling a single simple joke. Some were unfunny, some were Chinese translations of jokes I’d heard before, but a few ve... ...full story at Sinosplice
from Sinosplice on Thu, Aug 20 2009
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