Humorful and inspiring fables

People always say that humor is the condensation of a person’s wisdom. It is true that if the card of humor is used to its advantage, it can lubricate our interpersonal relationships, have a good mood for the day, and face the good and bad times of every day with a more relaxed attitude. The following is about humorous and inspirational fables. Welcome to read!

Story 1: Standard

A baker had been buying butter from a farmer in his neighborhood for a long time. One day, he decided that a 3-pound bag of butter seemed a little too light. So he began to weigh the butter regularly, and found that every time it was not enough, that is to say, he paid more every time.

He was so angry that he began to file a lawsuit with law enforcement agencies. Then the matter went to the judge. "Don't you have a scale?" the judge asked the farmer.

"Yes, Mr. Judge, I have a scale." The farmer replied.

“Are there any accurate weights?”

“No, Mr. Judge. I don’t need weights.”

“If there are no weights, then "How do you weigh butter?"

"That's easy," replied the farmer, "you see, while the baker is buying butter from me, I am also buying his bread. . I always ask for the same weight of bread. If the weights are not accurate every time, it is not my fault, but his fault."

Story 2: Parrot

A man went to buy a parrot and saw a parrot with a label on the front: This parrot can speak two languages ??and the price is two hundred yuan. Another parrot has a sign in front of it saying: This parrot can speak four languages ??and sells for 400 yuan. Which one should I buy? Both have bright coats and are very flexible and cute. The man was spinning around, unable to make up his mind. As a result, I suddenly found an old and toothless parrot with dull and messy fur, priced at 800 yuan. The man quickly called the boss: Can this parrot speak eight languages? The shopkeeper said: No. The man was confused: Then why is he old, ugly, and incompetent worth this amount? The shop owner replied: Because the other two parrots called this parrot Boss.

Story 3: Three Golden Men

Once upon a time, people from a small country came to China and paid tribute to three identical golden men. The golden walls were so brilliant that the emperor was very happy. But the people in this small country are not kind, and at the same time they asked a question: Which of the three golden men is the most valuable? The emperor thought of many ways and invited a jeweler to check, weigh and see the workmanship. They were all exactly the same.

What to do? The envoy is still waiting to go back and report. Isn’t it possible that such a huge country doesn’t even understand this trivial matter? Finally, an old minister who resigned said he had a solution. The emperor invited the envoy to the main hall. The old minister confidently held three straws and inserted them into the ears of the first golden man. The straws came out from the other ear. The second golden man's straw fell directly from his mouth, while the third golden man's straw fell into his stomach without making any sound. The veteran said: The third golden man is the most valuable! The messenger was silent and the answer was correct.

Story 4: Root cause

A pigeon keeps moving to get rid of its own smell! It felt that every time it lived in a new nest, there would be a strong and strange smell that made it breathless, so it had no choice but to keep moving. It felt very troubled, so it complained to an experienced old pigeon. The old pigeon said: "It's useless for you to move so many times, because the strange smell that bothers you is not coming from the nest, but the smell of yourself."

Story 5: The humor of geeks

On Zhang Xun’s birthday, the great scholar Gu Hongming gave him a pair of poems, saying: “When the lotus is gone, there is no rain cover, but the chrysanthemum is still there to stand proud of the frost. "

Later, Gu Hongming told Hu Shi about this matter, saying that "Qing Yu Gai" refers to the big hat of the Qing Dynasty, and "Aoshuang Ji" refers to the long braids that he and Zhang Xun both wore. .

Gu Hongming could not only speak about English literature, but also advocated feudal ethics.

When he was a professor at Peking University, one day, he explained the word "concubine" to two American ladies and said: "The word "concubine" means establishing a woman; when a man is tired, his hand rests on his daughter."

When the two American ladies heard this, they retorted: "When a woman is tired, why can't she lean on a man?"

Gu Hongming calmly argued: "Have you ever seen 1 There are 1 teapot and 4 teacups, but there are 1 teacup and 4 teapots. The principle is the same."

Story 6: The Toothless Man

Once, the architect Liang Sicheng. Make an academic report on the maintenance of ancient buildings. At the beginning of his speech, he said: "I am a 'shameless person'."

The audience was stunned by him and thought he was a "shameless person." At this time, Liang Sicheng said: "I have no teeth. Later, I got this set of dentures in the United States. Because of my age, they are not pure white, but slightly yellow, so I can't tell they are dentures. This is called 'replacement surgery'." The same is true when we repair ancient buildings, they cannot be renewed.

Story 7: Hu Shi’s “nonsense”

The famous modern Chinese scholar Hu Shi was born in the year of Rabbit. His wife Jiang Dongxiu was born in the year of the tiger, and Hu Shi often joked: "Rabbits are afraid of tigers. "The joke that Hu Shi was afraid of his wife was circulated at that time.

Once, a friend in Paris sent Hu Shi a dozen French bronze coins, because the money had three syllables "PTT", which were pronounced homophonically. For fear of my wife." Hu Shi joked with several of his friends who were afraid of their wives: "If a wife-feared association is established, these copper coins can be used as membership badges."

Hu Shi often gave lectures at universities. Once, at a certain university, he often quoted the words of Confucius, Mencius, and Sun Yat-sen in his lectures. When quoting, he wrote on the blackboard: "Confucius said", "Meng said", "Sun said".

Finally, when he discovered that his opinion actually caused a roar of laughter, it turned out that what he had written was: "Nonsense."