Two prisoners had been sentenced to die in the electric chair on the same day. They were led down to the room where they would spend their final moments and given their last meals. The warden then turned to the first man and asked, “Do you have any last requests?”
The man replied, “Yes, sir. I love dance music, so I would love to hear “The Macarena” one more time before I die.”
“Of course,” the warden replied, then turned to the other man and asked him, “And do you have any last requests?”
“Please,” the second man replied, “Kill me first!”
【Words & Phrases】 prisoner:囚人 sentence:判決を下す electric chair:電気椅子 warden:刑務所長 Macarena:マカレナ 世界的にヒットしたLos del Rio という歌
An overweight woman asked her doctor for some diet advice.
He told her to try running ten kilometres a day for 30 days.
By doing this, he explained, she could lose as much as ten kilos. The woman followed her doctor's advice, and after thirty days, she weighed herself to find that she had indeed lost twenty kilos.
She phoned the doctor and exclaimed “Thank you so much! Your diet is great!” She filled the doctor in on the details of her weight loss, then, just as she was about to hang up, asked one final question.
“I'm 300 kilometres from home now, so how do I get home?
One day a man drove his secretary home after she fell quite ill at work. Although this was an innocent gesture, he decided not to mention it to his wife, who tended to get jealous easily.
Later, that night the man and his wife were driving to a restaurant.
Suddenly he looked down and spotted a high-heel shoe half hidden under the passenger seat. Not wanting to be conspicuous, he waited until his wife was looking out her window before he scooped up the shoe and tossed it out of the car. With a sigh of relief, he pulled into the restaurant parking lot.
That's when he noticed his wife squirming around in her seat.
"Honey," she asked, "have you seen my other shoe?"
One farmer was bragging to another about the size of his farm. “I can get into my truck and drive all day and still not reach the boundary of my farm,” he said.
The other farmer nodded knowingly and replied, “I know what you mean. I had a truck like that once.”
“This place is like a dump! Come on! You and I need to tidy this place up! Your things are lying on the floor and you'll have no clothes to wear tomorrow unless we do the laundry right now!”
A man hears…
Blah blah blab blah COME ON! Blah blah blah blah YOU AND I Blah blah blah blah ON THE FLOOR Blah blah blah blah NO CLOTHES Blah blah blah blah RIGHT NOW!
An angry motorist went back to a garage where he'd purchased an expensive battery for his car six months earlier.
"Listen," the motorist grumbled to the owner of the garage, "when I bought that battery you said it would be the last battery my car would ever need. It died after only six months!"
"Sorry," apologized the garage owner. "I didn't think your car would last longer than that."
An elderly man had passed away, and the whole town had turned out for the funeral.
The priest started talking about all the wonderful traits the man had possessed and what a kind and honest man he was, and what a great husband and loving husband he had been.
The widow sat with her brow furrowed listening to the speech until she could bear it no longer.
Leaning over to one of her children, she whispered, "Go up there and have a look in the coffin to make sure that's really your father in there."
The angry customer stormed into the Travel Centre and said to the clerk, “I've been calling 0800-1900 for two days and can't get through to your operator. What's the story?”
The clerk was puzzled. “Where did you get that number from, sir?”
“It's written on your door,” the customer replied.
The clerk barely concealed a smirk. “Sir, those are our opening hours.”
A professor gave his students an important test, the score of which counted highly for the final grades.
After the test was completed, he was looking through the papers when he discovered that one of the students had attached a $100 bill to his test with a note that read “One dollar per point.”
The student was waiting expectantly the next day as the professor handed out the marked tests, but was disappointed when he got his paper back with $67 change.
An elderly couple was attending a church service when the woman turned to her husband and whispered, “I just did a noiseless fart. What do you think I should do?”
Her husband leaned over and replied, “Put a new battery in your hearing aid.”
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
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 group of kindergarten children were on a class outing to their local police station where they saw pictures, tacked to a bulletin board, of the 10 most wanted men.
One of the youngsters pointed to a picture and asked if it really was the photo of a wanted person.
"Yes," answered the policeman.
"Well," wondered the child, "why didn't you keep him when you took his picture?"
A beautiful woman was taking a short cut through a farm when she saw a large swimming pool. It was a hot day, so she decided to go skinny-dipping.
She looked around to make sure that no one was looking, and not seeing anyone, she got undressed.
However, just as she was about to dive into the pool, the farmer appeared from behind the bush where he had been hiding and said to her, “Hey! There’s no swimming allowed here!”
“You could have told me that before I got undressed!” the woman retorted.
“I said swimming is prohibited,” replied the farmer.
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
……【日本語訳】………………………………………………
■将来
女が将来について心配するのは結婚するまで。
男が将来について心配するのは結婚してから。
■ Virility Problems
A woman suffers from a painful headache and tries a new doctor. He tells her to rub her temples and repeat "I have no headache, I have no headache, I have no..." and amazingly enough, the headache disappears after 5 min.
She then thinks, that the doctor might be able to heal her husband who suffers from virility problems. The man visits the doctor and when he comes home, he just said that he needed 5 min for himself in the bedroom. Afterwards, he had no problems at all...
This goes on perfectly for quite some time until the wife gets curious and listens on the bedroom door. She hears the man repeat: "This is not my wife, This is not my wife,..this is no..."
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 big-game hunter took his wife and mother-in-law on safari.
One evening, while camping out the jungle, the hunter's wife awoke to find her mother gone. She rushed to wake up her husband and the two started searching for her.
After walking through the jungle for a couple of minutes, came upon a frightening sight: the mother-in-law was backed up against a large tree and a large male lion stood facing her.
”What are we going to do?” the wife cried.
”Nothing,” her husband replied.
”The lion got himself into this mess, let him get himself out of it.”