The Puns Of War

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It is well known that the Mainland (or Red) Chinese have most diligent censorship of the Internet and everything else media related. The paranoid in America look to Mainland China's government as a benchmark of control when we fear being monitored over what we do or say when a new and fearful law is passed in the name of security. This concern for liberty is for both real or imagined reason. Yet, even mainland China's diligent censors find themselves plugging a dike with unlikely leaks. * Mainland China has a dim view of what is considered 'vulgar'. The Chinese equivalent of 'four letter epithets' are definitely on the list of things not to be said or typed. Unfortunately, the double entendre, that lovely little bit of language that aided Americans in our fight with the censors in their 1930's hayday are holding the Chinese in very good stead today. That double entendre can go triple and all the way down the line, if this little news bit is to be believed... * When entendre meets pun, censorship, children's stories, and some seriously funny vulgarity, the pen is mightier than the sword. * The link is an article from Fox News about a Chinese children's story, truly ghastly puns, and massive puns for the censors trying to sort through this punny mess. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,506829,00.html