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Last laugh?

In the rest of the world, people say that he who has the last laugh laugh loudest or longest. In China, we often hear people say: “First victories are not victories”. Same thing. It means that that initial successes are not important. Therefore, don’t be too satisfied with early victories. Don’t start celebrating yet. Do not celebrate until final victory is clinched.

In the Second World War, for instance, Japan got many first victories as it occupied much of China and East and South Asia. But in the final analysis China and Asia got the last laugh. Japan may have won many battles, but the rest of Asia won the war.

Although, of course, I have picked a wrong example. Sorry about that. War is no laughing matter. Not at all. Only when there is lasting piece, will there be laugh, genuine and lasting laugh.

But you get the point.

Alright, here are recent media examples of people who get the “last laugh” of one type or another:

1. Even at first glance, the clues for the News of the World’s final crossword puzzle are thick with double entendres.

It seems the doomed tabloid’s 200 ex-staffers, bitter over losing their jobs while News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks kept hers, found an ingenious way to leave some not-so-subtle parting shots at their boss.

Despite scrutiny from two Brooks allies reportedly brought in from another News International paper to check the final issue for libelous material and messages mocking the former News of the World editor, it appears staff got the last laugh by inserting some thinly-disguised digs in the one place that seems to have gone unchecked: the crossword page.