酷漫

A： Do you have any kids？

B： Please dont mention that. Its so traumatic for me.

A： Oh， Im so sorry！ What happened？

B： Well， my wifes grandfather arranged for a man to marry my mother-in-law.

But some bastard came between them before they could get married.

A： Yes， and then what happened？

B： Well， I cant have a kid with a wife that wasnt born， can I？

This joke is adapted from XiaolinGuangji （《笑林廣記》， Extensive Gleaning from the Forests of Laughter ）， a joke book published in 1781 that epitomized Chinese humor.

cross word

across

1. Monkey Kings hometown in Journey to the West

3. A couple that remains happy ??????????????? for 100 years

5. PE teacher

7. An island city-state with a lion ?????????????? head as its national symbol

9. A large ethnic group ?????????????????????? concentrated in Guangxi

down

2. A flower could be made as ????????? tea and the name of a ?????????????????????? Chinese folk song

4. Basic arithmetic

6. Mountain collapse

8. Annual rings of wood

10. A Chinese idiom to say ??????????????????????? someone is old but vigorous

11. Chinese idiom for ???????????????????????????????? someone who thinks they ???????????????? know everything and tries

to teach it

answers for last issue

Across：2. 心電圖 4.春節 6. 拉薩 8. 金婚 9. 計劃生育

Down： 1. 烈日灼心 3. 阿拉木圖 5. 電視節目 7. 晚婚晚育 9. 計算機 10. 生二胎