Anyone else think this is funny?

Lion Eating Poet in the Stone Den (Pinyin Orthography):

Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī.
Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī.
Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì.
Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì.
Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì.
Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shíshì.
Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shíshì.
Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī.
Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī, shí shí shí shī shī.
Shì shì shì shì.

well? funny or llama?

 

and in english:

In a stone den was a poet Shi, who was a lion addict, and had resolved to eat ten.
He often went to the market to look for lions.
At ten o'clock, ten lions had just arrived at the market.
At that time, Shi had just arrived at the market.
He saw those ten lions, and using his trusty arrows, caused the ten lions to die.
He brought the corpses of the ten lions to the stone den.
The stone den was damp. He asked his servants to wipe it.
After the stone den was wiped, he tried to eat those ten lions.
When he ate, he realized that these ten lions were in fact ten stone lion corpses.
Try to explain this matter.

 

Remind me to never learn Japanese. Ever.
Extremely clever but it didn't make me laugh.

 

there are some english equivelents, like "buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo" and "James, while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher".

But those aren't as insane.

 

I'm not familiar with the "buffalo" one.
And yes, Japanese is insane.

 

it basically means that buffalo from buffalo bully other buffalo from buffalo

 

I did not know buffalo is a verb. Also one of those buffaloes should be capitalized.

 

you do now

gah! third time I've posted this...
keep hitting the back button by mistake