Re: A Chinese Joke


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>A joke from my friend Wei-lin (the English spiffed up a bit).  It's
pretty 
> funny, actually.  Spiteful and jealous, but funny...
>
>
>
> One day a rich man noticed a beggar at his gate.  The beggar demanded
alms. 
>
> The rich man scoffed, "Why should I?"
>
> "Because I see you have so many riches and money and I have nothing."
>
> Feeling pity (and pride) the rich man gave the beggar a little money.
>
> The next day the rich man again encountered the beggar (looking better
fed
> now) and the beggar again demanded alms. And once again the rich man
gave 
> the beggar some money.
>
> This went on for a few years until the rich man had given away all his
money
> and even his young wife and his home to the beggar, and ended up a
beggar 
> himself.
>
> One day, begging on the street, the rich man (rich no more) saw a fat
rich 
> man walk through the gate of his old house with his beautiful (and very
> pregnant) wife at his side.  Recognizing the fat rich man as having been
the 
> beggar at his gate, the rich man stepped forward and demanded alms.
>
> The fat rich man scoffed, "Why should I?  You're just a dirty scummy
> beggar."
>
> And he just walked on by.
>

So what is the moral of the story?


You learn your morals from jokes?


What can I learn from, "why did the chicken cross the road?". 

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