Madness on stilts. The joke:
Andrey repeated the joke, originally written by Dahl, in front of a number of classmates, saying: “Why is it difficult to make telephone calls in China? Because there are so many Wings and so many Wongs, you might Wing the Wong number.”
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These guardians of societal norms are far too excitable. They should rie down and lerax.
Solly..!
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That’s quite a good joke, actually.
Oops. I’m racist now. 😦
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I recall the joke from when I was a lad, 50+ years ago. The book was published in the UK in 1973:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Great_Glass_Elevator
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