"My car can hold 71 people: two in front, and 69 in the back seat." A Chinese graduate student was once told that joke. He puzzled for a moment, and then asked "What does two in front mean?"
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Once there was a man who played the cello incessantly, but he was odd in that his cello had only one string, and he never played but one note on it. Finally, his wife made bold to ask, "Dear, have you ever noticed that other cellists have four strings on their cellos, and they move their fingers around so that different notes come out?" "Sure," he replied, "They're looking for the place. I've found it."
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A man had made an appointment to see a psychiatrist. He said "I don't think there's anything wrong with me, but my friends insisted. They think I'm crazy because I like pancakes." "Why, there's certainly nothing crazy about that. In fact, I like pancakes myself." "Do you really? You must come up to my apartment sometime. I have a whole trunk full."