Children Stories

As they milled about on le Champ de Mars, loud discussions raged about the chances of the frogs.

"No way anyone will get to the top!” said one.

"Yeah, it's just too far for the poor buggers," agreed another.

Zhuangzi knew about the happiness of fish, but Huizi’s skepticism only gets him circular answers.

Funny story of the famous Chinese philosopher’s clever rejoinders...

Funny Story: The Jester Returns

Rosh responds with classical elephant jokes when Hosh grills his tired father on elephants.

“Everything he touched turned instantly into gold. It was miraculous!"

"He touched a tree. Gold! He touched a stone. Gold! He touched a piece of shit. Gold!”

“Wow!” said Josh, “I really want that golden touch. Can Dionysus make me rich too? ”

“Beer – helping people enjoy sex since about 5,000 BC - is also made of grains. All healthy stuff. Drink more, be healthier. Have sex, be even more healthier."

"Beer also helps a man show his emotions. Spill one and he'll cry.”

"What a life mate!" our friend crowed, "Zed security. Such fame. And such beauty."

"People dying to see you. When they see me, they just shoo me away."

"You must be the happiest bird on the planet."

“There used to be a saying: No one can hear you scream in space! But NASA says there is sound in the Cosmos."

"Do you want to hear the sound of Space?" Hosh asked his brother.

"From next week, you are going to join Karate lessons," he said after Josh had finished speaking.

"You will at least learn to defend yourself, if you can't learn to keep out of trouble in the first place."

“Come on Pa,” Josh was incredulous. “That story can’t be literally true."

"Crows are stupid. Look at that one. He looks stupid, he acts stupid, he talks stupid. Aesop must have seen a special crow.”

Our education system has become a race. A race amongst all sorts of participants. Fast and slow, bright and dumb.

And it’s not always the fast or bright who get to win this race. Like in the old Aesopian fable about a race between a hare and a tortoise.

Josh laughed at the funny joke. Rosh loved it, that he’d got it straight away.

“Wanna play a game?” he asked.

Josh nodded, a happy smile suddenly breaking up on his face.