A man left his home in snowy Alaska for a vacation in sunny Florida. His wife was to meet him there the next day. On reaching his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail. However, he was unable to find the piece of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, so he did his best to type it from memory.
Unfortunately, he made a small error in the address, and the e-mail was sent instead to an elderly preacher's wife, whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she let out a horrified scream and fainted. Her shocked family rushed into the room to see what was wrong and saw this message on the screen:
My Darling Wife, Just got checked in. Everything ready for your arrival tomorrow. Your Loving Husband P.S. Sure is hot down here.
Arthur and his wife Patty are getting ready for bed one night. Patty is standing in front of the mirror looking at herself.
"You know honey" she sighs, “I look in the mirror and all I see is an old woman. My face is all wrinkled, my boobs are sagging and my bum is wobbly. My legs are fat and my arms are all flabby.” She turns to Arthur and says, “Tell me something nice to make me feel better about myself.”
Arthur thinks about it for a bit and then says to Patty in a soft voice… "Well... at least there's nothing wrong with your eyesight."
【Words & Phrases】 get ready:しようとする。準備する wrinkled:しわが寄る saggy:たるんだ bum:しり wobbly:ぐらぐら、よろよろする flabby:しまりがない、たよりない。 at least:少なくとも eyesight:視覚、視力
A blonde walks into a casino and sees a vending machine. She puts in some money and a can of soft drink falls out.
She smiles and keeps putting in more and more money and more and more cans of soft drinks keep falling out.
She does this for about an hour or so until a casino worker comes up to her and says "Haven’t you had enough?" She retorts, "Leave me alone! Can’t you see I'm winning?!"
Two salesmen were going door to door one day when they knocked on the door of a young woman who looked particularly unhappy to see them. “Go away, I'm not interested!” she scowled then slammed the door in their faces.
However, to her surprise, the door did not close, but flew back open again. Seeing the two salesmen grinning at her, the woman stormed back to the door and threw it shut again. But once again, the door didn't close.
Getting more and more irritated, she threw all her weight against the door and tried to shove it shut, but it would still not close. Convinced that one of the now smirking salesmen was sticking his foot in the door, she backed up a few steps ready to give the door a slam that would really teach them a lesson, when one of the salesman said, “Ma'am, before you do that, you might want to move your cat.”
Sam is at work one day when he notices that his workmate Derek is wearing an earring. Sam, knowing that Derek is a conservative dresser, is curious about this sudden change in fashion and so commented to his workmate
I didn’t know you wore earrings.”
"Well, there’s nothing wrong with that, is there?" Derek replies, a little defensively.
Sam thinks about backing off, but then his curiosity gets the better of him and he asks, "So, how long have you been wearing one?"
Derek grimaces, "Ever since my wife found it in my car."
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
Morris had been playing golf for years, and he had the finest equipment, but his technique never improved a bit. As his friend watched, he teed up at the first hole and promptly drove a brand-new ball into the woods. On the second hole, he drove another new ball into a lake. On the third, he lost a new ball in another part of the woods.
"Why don't you use an old ball?" his friend Sam asked.
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 heavily pregnant woman arrived at the hospital about to give birth. “Will the father be present?” asked the nurse. “No,” replied the pregnant woman. “He and my husband don’t get along.”
An irate woman burst into the baker`s shop and said, "I sent my son in for two pounds of cookies this morning, but when I weighed them there was only one pound. I suggest that you check your scales."
The baker looked at her calmly for a moment or two and then replied, "And I, Madam, suggest that you weigh your son."
A guy hears a knocking on his door. He opens it up, and no one is there. He looks all around and he finally sees a little snail sitting on the doormat. He picks it up and throws it across the street into a field.
Ten years later, he hears a knocking on his door. He opens it up and no one is there. He looks all around, and he finally sees a little snail sitting on the doormat.
The snail says, "What the heck was that all about?"
Larry returns from Africa feeling extremely ill. He goes to see his doctor, who rushes him immediately to the hospital, to undergo all manner of tests.
After completing the tests, Larry is resting in a private room at the hospital, when the doctor calls with his results.
”I’m sorry Larry, you have an extremely deadly virus, which is very contagious.”
”What!” cries Larry, “What are you going to do?”
”Well, we're going to put you on a diet of pizzas, pancakes, and toast.”
”Will that cure me?” asked Larry.
”Well, no,” the doctor replied, “But it's the only food we can get under the door.”
One Christmas, a mother decided she was no longer going to remind her kids to write thank you notes to the people who gave them presents, and as a result, the kids’ Granddad never received a thank you for the very generous cheques that he had written for his grandchildren.
Things were different the following year, however.
“Every single kid came around to thank me this year,” Granddad boasted to his friend.
“That's wonderful to hear,” replied the friend, “What do you think made them change their behaviour?”
“That's easy,” grinned Granddad, “This year I didn't sign the cheques!”
A business man was interviewing applicants for the position of divisional manager. He devised a simple test to select the most suitable person for the job. He asked each applicant the question,
"What is two and two?"
The first interviewee was a journalist. His answer was "Twenty-two."
The second applicant was an engineer. He pulled out a slide rule and showed the answer to be between 3.999 and 4.001.
The next person was a lawyer. He stated that in the case of Jenkins v Commr of Stamp Duties, two and two was proven to be four.
The last applicant was an accountant. The business man asked him, "How much is two and two?" The accountant got up from his chair, went over to the door and closed it then came back and sat down. He leaned across the desk and said in a low voice....
Little Nancy was in the garden filling in a hole when her neighbor peered over the fence. Interested in what the little girl was up to, he politely asked, "What are you up to there, Nancy?"
"My goldfish died," replied Nancy tearfully, without looking up, "and I've just buried him."
The neighbor was concerned, "That's an awfully big hole for a goldfish, isn't it?"
Nancy patted down the last heap of earth and then replied, "That's because he's inside your stupid cat."
Arthur and his wife Patty are getting ready for bed one night.
Patty is standing in front of the mirror looking at herself. "You know honey" she sighs, “I look in the mirror and all I see is an old woman. My face is all wrinkled, my boobs are sagging and my bum is wobbly. My legs are fat and my arms are all flabby.” She turns to Arthur and says, “Tell me something nice to make me feel better about myself.”
Arthur thinks about it for a bit and then says to Patty in a soft voice… "Well... at least there's nothing wrong with your eyesight."
【Words & Phrases】 get ready:しようとする。準備する wrinkled:しわが寄る saggy:たるんだ bum:しり wobbly:ぐらぐら、よろよろする flabby:しまりがない、たよりない。 at least:少なくとも eyesight:視覚、視力
Fred had just had surgery for appendicitis. His wife Joan sat at his bedside holding his hand until he woke up. After a few minutes, Fred groggily opened his eyes, looked at Joan, said “Hello Beautiful,” then went back to sleep.
Joan was surprised but elated at this uncommon display of affection. A few minutes later, he opened his eyes again, looked at her and said “Hi Cutie,” then fell back asleep.
Feeling a little hurt at being downgraded from beautiful to cutie, Joan waited until Fred opened his eyes again. When he did, she asked “Sweetie, why did you just downgrade me from Beautiful to Cutie?”
While sports fishing off the Florida coast, a tourist capsized his boat. He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the overturned craft. Spotting an old beachcomber standing on the shore, the tourist shouted,
"Are there any gators around here?"
"Nah," the man hollered back, "they ain't been around for years!" Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming leisurely toward the shore.
About halfway there he asked the guy, "How'd you get rid of the gators?" "We didn't do anything," the beachcomber said. "Really?" said the tourist. The beachcomber added, "The sharks got 'em."