親愛的 靈婆,

Please don't feel bad. This joke is not easy to be understood, mostly because of the different cultural backgrounds.

Please let me add some simple explanations.

In the normal time:

1. You would receive a pre-approved credit card application form in the mail.

2. You would order a double-cheese burger with French fries without the prompting by the kid behind the checkout counter .

3. CEO's would always be playing 18-hole golf, not mini golf.

4. McDonald's would only sell the 1/4 'pounder'.

5. Super rich people living in Malibu and Beverly Hills would be hiring nannies to take care their many children from different marriages.

6. A truckload of Mexicans would be caught sneaking into America.

7. Dick Cheney would not take his stockbroker to hunting in order to shoot him.

8. Motel 6 would always leave the light on (it's famous commercial catch phase.)

9. The Mafia would keep judges in their pockets.

10. Due to the outsourcing, some major American companies have their customer service call center placed in India for cost saving. Upon learning that some one is suicidal, the Muslim terrorists who are tending the hotline are more than happy to recruit him to drive a truck bomb to fulfill his death wish.

哈! 我這隻公雞可是知音呢.

My Dear Sister 曉呆家族,

This is really a very tough year for most of the people, and it seems that the much worse is yet to come. 

Let us hope for the best, and prepare for the worst. 

My Dear Sister 尋夢人,

I am glad to learn that you enjoy this 無奈的 joke.

Hope you have a beautiful and pleasant day!

Dream on!

親愛的 通霄客兄,

I certainly can appreciate this humor, but I can see no reason to be too optimistic about the current direction of this once great nation is embarking.

Your master piece "葛倫 ·貝克 Glenn Beck及8/28林肯紀念堂前廣場 50 萬人集會" says it all.

You are my man!  My highest salute to you!!!   

My Dear Sister 哈啾歐,

雖有點宣染....

You are right on the money -- One of the key ingredients of a good humor is exaggeration and hyperbole.

無奈嗎?  When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

My Dear Sister H2O CO2,

Yes!  It has been a tough year, and it seems it will only be getting tougher and tougher with no end in sight.

Please take good care of yourself while in the Big Apple.  I used to live in its small neighbor next door (New Jersey) for 21 years.

My Dear Sister Apple,

You surely know how to appreciate the fine thing in life.  You are right -- The last section of this joke is definitely its funniest part.  Those Muslim extremists in Pakistan will absolutely be delighted to recruit him to drive a suicide truck bomb to fulfill his death wish.

Those terrorists often cite the Koran that if you die for Allah in the holy war, Allah will personally escort you to heaven with 72 virgins waiting upon your arrival.   I can hardly believe this BS, and unfortunately those mother f--kers do.   So I checked the Koran myself and finally figured it out that all Allah promised was ONE 72-years-old virgin.   If this is what they really want, I believe that we should do everything we can to accommodate them and make their wishes come true.

My Dear Sister Halaalah,

感謝 您的捧場 + 鼓勵喔. 

本狼很榮幸 您是這篇文章的第一個粉絲.   

I am currently 棲身於 the east Los Angeles area.

This joke is very difficult to be translated in Chinese, or in any other languages for that matter.  The reason being that in order to fully appreciate it, one has to understand the cultural and societal background of the America.  I MAY try to add some footnotes or annotations to explain it when I have time.