Write your last name upside down?

Why is it an insult to the Chinese if you write their last names upside down? Is it the same as writing them backward in English? It's so unfair, some people have advantages than others!

看台上，两个素不相识的球迷争了起来。
“甲队准赢。我说错了，就把我的姓倒写！”
“甲队准输。否则，把我的姓倒写！”
“你贵姓？”
“姓田。你呢？”
“姓王。”

On the stadium, two complete strangers who were both soccer fans got into an argument.
"Team Jia will win, if I'm wrong, I'll write my name backwards!"
"Team Jia will lose, or else, I'll write my last name backwards!"
"What's your last name?"
"Tian, and yours?"
"Wang."
"..."

Is the patient a sick person?

Indigo understood every word and every sentence of the joke, but it took a long time to understand why it was worth a chuckle or two. Why the "sick person" calls the nurse a "honeypie"? By the third time I explained to her why it was so. She said this joke was sick, hence she translated "病人" as a "sick person".

护士 看到 一 病人 在 病房 喝酒，就 走 过去 小声地 对 他 说:“不要 喝酒，小心 肝!”病人 微笑着 说：“那 就 不 喝 了，小 宝贝。”

The nurse saw a patient drinking beer in the hospital room, so she walked over to him and whispered, "Don't drink beer, be careful of your liver!" The sick person chuckled, thinking the nurse had said, "Sweety" and said (hey, what did you expect? he's drunk!), "Then I won't drink it any more, honeypie."

I don't get it!

I got some feedbacks from a few good friends that their kids couldn't understand some the jokes here. Amen, say no more, brothers and sisters!

As I told you before that Indigo complained that many of these jokes were really lame. Most of the time, I got a some what blank stare "I don't get it!". She could understand each sentence or the whole joke, but she couldn't understand where the funny part was or why it was funny. It's frustrating to explain left and right why it is funny, still she doesn't laugh. Oh forget it, you'll get a laugh from her just by tickling her ;-).

You don't need a scientific study to conclude that there's a culture gap between a generation of foreign born parents and their America-born children. Some people call it intuition, some people call it a hunch. Darnit, these kids just don't think many of the jokes that we, or the people in the old country normally consider funny, are funny. Why?! Could it be that these kids are fed on American milk, which washes away any of their ancestry humor genes? Or could it be that the kids don't talk with each other or to their parents for that matter in Chinese and so they become deficient in Chinese humor? Maybe we should feed them some vitamin Zh!

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