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Good to know one-liners are a universal concept. My favorite English one:

"A cannibal passed his brother in the woods."




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

My favorite: Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.


A cannibal refused to eat clown soup, claiming it tasted funny.


It's tasteless, but I like this one for the unusually intricate ambiguity:

Did you hear about the constipated mathematician?

He worked it out with a pencil.


worked the logs out with a pencil.




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