comedyofthecommons:

On Dec. 20, Weibo microbloggers began to generate what some on the service quickly labeled China’s joke of the year. They took the line from Steve Jobs’s now-famous 2005 Stanford University commencement address — “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” — and applied it to North Korea: “Kim Jong Il’s last words to the Korean people: ‘Stay hungry. Stay foolish.’”

By late afternoon on Dec. 21, the joke had gone viral. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of arguably better versions of it. For example: “The entire Korean people have achieved the wishes of the famous Steve Jobs: Stay hungry. Stay foolish!” Or, more cutting: “Jobs’s greatest legacy is Kim and his son and a country where 24 million people do stay hungry, do stay foolish.”

(via comedyofthecommons)