A furious woman confronted her husband and said, “I found a piece of paper in your jacket pocket with the name Cindy Lou written on it. You'd better have a good explanation.”
“Sweetie, calm down,” her husband replied. “That was the name of the dog I bet on when I went to the dog track last week.”
The next morning, the woman came up behind her husband and smacked him in the back of the head. “What was that for?” he complained.
Tom, Dick and Harry were drinking at a bar and discussing coincidences.
Tom said, "My wife was reading a 'Tale of Two Cities' and she gave birth to twins."
"That's funny", Dick mused, "my wife was reading 'The Three Musketeers' and she gave birth to triplets."
Harry shouted, "Oh my God, I’ve got to get home!!"
When asked by a surprised Tom and Dick what on earth the matter was, he yelled, "When I left the house, my wife was reading ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’!!!"
【Words & Phrases】 Multiple:多数の、複数の discuss:論じる、話し合う、話す coincidence:偶然の一致、合致 twin:双子 funny:面白い muse:熟考する、考えにふける triplet:三つ子 what on earth:一体全体 yell:叫ぶ Thieve:盗む
Tale of Two Cities:二都物語 チャールズ・ディケンズ著 The Three Musketeers:三銃士 アレクサンドル・デュマ著 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves:アリババと40人の盗賊
A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband when suddenly her husband burst into the kitchen and started shouting, "Careful ... BE CAREFUL! You need more butter! Oh my GOD! You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Flip them! FLIP THEM NOW! Put in some more butter! Oh my GOD! You’re running out of BUTTER! They're going to STICK! Careful ... CAREFUL! I said BE CAREFUL! You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Flip them! Hurry up! Are you CRAZY? Have you LOST your mind? Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!"
His wife stared at him. "What on earth is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?"
The husband calmly replied, "I wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving!"
A man walks into the dentist's office and after the dentist examines him, he says, "that tooth has to come out. I'm going to give you a shot of Novocain and I'll be back in a few minutes."
The man grabs the doc's arm, "no way. I hate needles I'm not having any shot!"
So the dentist says, "okay, we'll have to go with the gas."
The man replies, "absolutely not. It makes me very sick for a couple of days. I'm not having gas."
So the dentist steps out and comes back with a glass of water, "here," he says. "Take this pill."
The man asks "What is it?"
The doc replies, "Viagra." The man looks surprised, "will that kill the pain?" he asks. "No," replies the dentist, "but it will give you something to hang on to while I pull your tooth"
Upon entering the little country store, the stranger noticed a sign saying, "DANGER! BEWARE OF THE DOG!" posted on the door. Inside, he noticed a harmless old hound dog asleep on the floor besides the cash register.
He asked the store manager, "Is THAT the dog folks are supposed to beware of?"
"Yep, that's him," he replied.
The stranger couldn't help but be amused. "That certainly doesn't look like a dangerous dog to me. Why in the world would you post that sign?"
"Because," the owner replied, "before I posted that sign, people kept tripping over him."
【Words & Phrases】 beware: 注意する country store: 田舎の雑貨店 post: 貼り出す、掲示する harmless: 無害の、悪意のない be supposed to~: ~しなければならない can't help but + 動詞の原形: ~せざるをえない trip over: つまずく
For weeks a six-year old lad kept telling his first-grade teacher about the baby brother or sister that was expected at his house.
One day the mother allowed the boy to feel the movements of the unborn child. The six-year old was obviously impressed, but made no comment. Furthermore, he stopped telling his teacher about the impending event.
The teacher finally sat the boy on her lap and said, "Tommy, whatever has become of that baby brother or sister you were expecting at home?"
Tommy burst into tears and confessed, "I think Mommy ate it!"
【Words & Phrases】 lad:少年 allow:許可する movement:動き unborn:まだ生れてこない、これから生れる obviously:明らかに be impressed:感動する furthermore:さらに impending:差し迫った lap:ひざ become of~:~が(どう)なる burst into tears:突然泣き出す
A businessman arrives at a hotel late at night and asks for a single room. As he is waiting for the clerk to fill out the paperwork, the man sees a beautiful, sexy woman sitting in the lobby.
He asks the clerk to wait a minute and disappears, coming back a minute later with the woman on his arm.
“Fancy bumping into my wife here,” he says to the clerk. “I guess you can make that a double room for tonight.”
The next morning, the businessman goes to check out, and finds his bill to be almost two and a half thousand dollars.
“What's the meaning of this?” he shouts at the clerk, “I've only stayed here one night!”
“That's right, sir,” the clerk replies, “But your wife has been here for two weeks.”
A fort in the old wild west was about to be attacked. The General prepared his troops, then turned to his trusted Indian Scout and said, “We need your experience now more than ever. Can you estimate what sort of army we are up against?"
The Scout lay down and put his ear to the ground. After a few seconds, he muttered, “Many men. Five chiefs, two on black horses, three on white horses.Maybe five hundred men. All wearing war paint. Many, many guns."
“That's amazing!" cried the General. “You know all that just be listening to the ground?"
“No," the Scout replied. “I can see under the gate."
【Words & Phrases】 Scout:偵察者 prepare:準備する troop:軍隊 trusted:信頼する experience:経験、経験から得た知識 more than ever:これまでになく estimate:推測する what sort of:どういう mutter:ブツブツ言う
Dad: An idiot is a person who tries to explain his ideas in such a strange and long way that another person who is listening to him can't understand him. Do you understand me?
…………………………………………………………………… ■ Secret to a long marriage
An elderly couple was well known in little town for their long and happy marriage. On the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary, a local newspaper reporter asked them what their secret was.
“Well, it dates back to our honeymoon,” the husband explained.
“We visited the Grand Canyon and rode mules down to the bottom of the canyon. A short way down, my wife's mule stumbled and she quietly said, ‘That's once.’ We rode on a little further when the mule stumbled again. My wife murmured ‘That's twice.’ After another three or four hundred metres, the mule stumbled a third time, at which my wife promptly removed a revolver from her pocket and shot him.”
”I was shocked, and started to protest over her treatment of the mule when she looked at me and quietly said, 'That's once.'”
A farmer from Texas is on holiday in Australia when he meets an Australian farmer. They start talking about their farms, and the Aussie farmer invites the Texan to come and see his ranch. When they arrive, the Aussie proudly shows the Texan his big wheat field.
The Texan smirks and says “It’s quite small, isn’t it? We have wheat fields in Texas twice that size!”
They walk around a little more, and the Aussie shows the Texan his herd of cattle, to which the Texan remarks, “The longhorns in Texas are at least twice the size of your cows.”
But the Texan is lost for words when he sees a herd of kangaroos hopping by. “What on earth are those?” he asks.
The Aussie looking surprised, answers “What? You mean to say you don’t have any grasshoppers in Texas?”
【Words & Phrases】 farmer:農場主、農業従事者 farm:農場 Aussie:オーストラリア(の)、オーストラリア人(の) ranch:農場、大牧場 proudly:誇らしげに wheat field:小麦畑 smirk:気取った笑い cattle:牛 remark:発言、感想を述べる、意見を言う longhorn:長角牛 at least:少なくとも kangaroo:カンガルー hopping:飛び回っている What on earth:一体全体...何? grasshopper:バッタ
A woman went to the police to report the disappearance of her husband.
The police officer looked at the man’s photograph, took down his details then asked the woman if there was any message she wanted to pass onto her husband if they found him.
"Doc," said the young man, "You've got to help me! Every night I have the same terrible dream. I'm lying in bed when all of a sudden three gorgeous women rush in and start tearing off my clothes."