Chinese Buffalo

I just Stumbled Upon an English curiosity which I used on a group of adults in class about a year ago. Goes like this:

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It was an interesting class for a Friday afternoon for a group of students who swore they they were getting too much vocabulary.

After looking over the article on Wikipedia, I saw a link to another similar article about a Lion-Eating Poet in a Stone Den. 96 characters, all pronounced as Shi, though in different tones. « Shī Shì shí shī shǐ »

《施氏吃獅子記》

有一位住在石室裏的詩人叫施氏，愛吃獅子，決心要吃十隻獅子。
他常常去市場看獅子。
十點鐘，剛好有十隻獅子到了市場。
那時候，剛好施氏也到了市場。
他看見那十隻獅子，便放箭，把那十隻獅子殺死了。
他拾起那十隻獅子的屍體，帶到石室。
石室濕了水，施氏叫侍從把石室擦乾。
石室擦乾了，他才試試吃那十隻獅子。
吃的時候，才發現那十隻獅子，原來是十隻石頭的獅子屍體。
試試解釋這件事吧。

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