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This Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke, similar to "Who's on first", only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->

The crux of the joke is that the way the word sun, 日, and the word "grass", 草, are pronounced can have alternate profane meanings. So the phrase "我日" means both "I'm the sun" and also "fuck me!", while the phrase "我草“　means both "I'm the grass" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), "Fuck me!"

This usage of the term “我操” is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, "Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!"

There are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I'm going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I'll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I'll include the double meanings of words.

The <a href="http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn

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小河 - [pinyin]xiao3 he2[/pinyin] - Brook, stream

飞来飞去 - [pinyin]fei1 lai2 fei1 qu4[/pinyin] - Fly back and forth, fly here and there

爬 - [pinyin]pa2[/pinyin] - Climb

跟头 - [pinyin]gen1 tou5[/pinyin] - Trip and fall, take a fall

本事 - [pinyin]ben3 shi4[/pinyin] - Ability, skill

宽 - [pinyin]kuan1[/pinyin] - Wide

不能比的 - [pinyin]bu4 neng2 bi3 de5[/pinyin] - Cannot compare

钩 - [pinyin]gou1[/pinyin] - Hook

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<div id="chinesetext">太阳给草打电话&nbsp;

太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。

草: 我草，你谁啊？

太阳: 我日啊

草: 我草，你到底谁啊

太阳: 我日啊，你草吧

草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草

太阳: 我日，我日啊

草:我草.

这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢

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On the third day after he was born, Little Elephant went with his mother to the banks of a stream, and there he saw a bird in the sky flying here and there. Little Elephant said: "If I could fly, I could see even more things, it would be great!"

In order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of "Ai Yo!", fell heavily to the ground.

Seeing this, the snake said: "Little elephant, we all have our own abilities. I can't fly, but I can sleep in a tree."

Lion said: "I also can't fly, but I can jump across a wide river."

Tiger said, "I can't fly, but I can swim!"

Little Elephant's father and mother said to him, "We elephants have great strength, incomparably greater than that little bird's."

Little Elephant understood. He used his long nose as a hook and moved a large branch.

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