Bad pun alert

I guess you have to be British to get that "best joke". What is a Chinese Wispa?

"Chinese Whispers" is a children's game.
The kids line up in a row. No.1 kid whispers something to No.2, who then whispers it to No.3 & so on.
The last kid says aloud what he (thinks he) heard, & this is compared (amidst much hilarity) with the original statement.

From this the phrase, chinese whispers can be used to refer to how much messages change as they are passed through a number of people.

(I think every English-speaking army use the story of how HQ received a message "send us three & fourpence, we are going to a dance" that should have been "send us reinforcements, we are going to advance").

"Wispa" is a popular chocolate bar.

So, the rumour about the bar may have been just a "chinese whisper" (unreliable info).
And a new Oriental chocolate bar could be called a "chinese Wispa"

Edited by: CrazyEddie

Puns aren't funny. However, Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown has puns that are so laboured, contrived and preposterous that they're actually quite good.

The squid one starts at about 3.30 and the payoff's about two minutes later.
https://soundcloud.com/britishcomedyguide/pappys-flatshare-slamdown-04-03

#2 In these PC times of ours, my kids' school calls the game Broken telephone.

Rather oddly, Chinese kids call it broken telephone too.

When I was a kid we used to race snails, and we all kept our racing snail in our desk at school and feed them dandelion leaves. Mine always lost, so in an attempt to make it faster I took its shell off. Didn't work, and if anything it became more sluggish.

Thanks for the explanation. I remember that game, but don't remember what we called it. In French it's called "téléphone arabe";

We just called it "telephone" (US). In my experience it was never as amusing as it was cracked up to be.

Rather oddly, Chinese kids call it broken telephone too.

Polish kids call the game "deaf telephone".

We also called it "telephone." (Late 1950s, California.) It wasn't something we played voluntarily; it was imposed as a learning exercise.

One of Normal Rockwell's better known paintings illustrates the moral. Gossip

I started a thread about non-rhotic puns last year that seems to still be available.