Meditating Jokes

During the Sui Dynasty (581-618), there lived a clever man who spoke with a slight stutter. Whenever the Minister Yang Su felt bored and listless, he would invite this man over to have a chat. One evening toward the close of the year when they sat facing each other, Yang asked him more in jest than in earnest: " Supposing you find yourself in a pit ten feet deep and ten feet in circumference, how would you get out?" The man lowered his head, meditating for some time, and asked: " Is there a 1-1-ladder?" "No," replied Yang. " I wouldn't have asked you if there were a ladder." Again the man lowered his head meditating. Some time later, he inquired: " In br-br-broad daylight? Or at n-n-night?" " No need to ask whether it's in broad daylight or at night," replied Yang." The question is how would you get out." " I'm not blind," reported the man. " If it isn't after night-fall, how the hell could I fall more...