"Brown" can often pertain to racial characteristics, most notably skin colour.
"Chinese" is a word describing persons originating from the orient. Put the two together in a poorly constructed BBC headline, and you produce hilarious skin colour based confusion.
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elephant rider property shark sighted!, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 7:49,
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wow
that's clutching at straws a bit isn't it? Has the internet run out of funny?
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thiswasmyclone, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 8:20,
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Hehe
I found it somewhat amusing. A similar one a few months ago, also on the BBC site: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7597464.stm
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elephant rider property shark sighted!, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 8:29,
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