A nasty headmaster was concerned that his private school may have to close due to the falling student numbers.
He called for his assistant and threatened him that if he didn’t recruit new students right away, he would lose his job.
The assistant did as he was told and a couple of days later, ten new students enrolled. Ten more enrolled the next day, and the day after, until all the classes were full.
Astounded, the headmaster pulled the assistant aside and asked him how he had managed to get so many new pupils.
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.”
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?”
An angel appears at a faculty meeting and tells the dean that in return for his unselfish and exemplary behavior, the Lord will reward him with his choice of infinite wealth, wisdom, or beauty.
Without hesitating, the dean selects infinite wisdom.
"Done!" says the angel, and disappears in a cloud of smoke and a bolt of lightning.
Now, all heads turn toward the dean, who sits surrounded by a faint halo of light.
One of his colleagues whispers, "Say something."
The dean sighs and says, "I should have taken the money."
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 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.
A young businessman had just started his own firm. He'd rented a beautiful office and had it furnished with antiques.
Sitting there, he saw a man come into the outer office.
Wishing to appear the hot shot, the businessman picked up the phone and started to pretend he had a big deal working. He threw huge figures around and made giant commitments.
Finally he hung up and asked the visitor, "Can I help you?"
The man said, "Yeah, I've come to connect your phone line."
A man was in his front yard mowing grass when his attractive blonde female neighbor came out of the house and went straight to the mailbox. She opened it, then slammed it shut and stormed back in the house. A little later she came out of her house again, went to the mail box and again, opened it, slammed it shut again.
Angrily, back into the house she went. As the man was getting ready to edge the lawn, here she came out again, marched to the mail box, opened it and then slammed it closed harder than ever.
Puzzled by her actions the man asked her, "Is something wrong?" To which she replied, "There certainly is. My stupid computer keeps saying, 'YOU'VE GOT MAIL'!!!"
A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment.
The next week the man realized that he would need his wife to wake him at 5.00am for an early flight to Sydney. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence, he finally wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5.00am".
The next morning the man woke up, only to discover it was 9.00am, and that he had missed his flight.
Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't awakened him when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. It said, "It is 5:00am, wake up!"
A man came home from work sporting two black eyes. "What happened to you?" asked his wife.
"I'll never understand women," he replied. "I was riding up in an escalator behind this pretty young girl, and I noticed that her skirt was stuck in the crack of her ass. So I pulled it out, and she turned around and punched me in the eye!"
"I can certainly appreciate that," said the wife, "But how did you get the second black eye?"
"Well, I figured she liked it that way," said the husband, "So I pushed it back in."
The head nurse was walking down the hospital hall when she was almost run over by a man wheeling himself frantically in a wheelchair.
“Aren't you supposed to be having an operation now?” the head nurse asked. “What's the matter?”
“That nurse said, ‘Don't worry, it's a simple operation. I'm sure it'll be OK.'” the man said.
“I'm sure she was just trying to put you at ease,” the head nurse said. “What's so frightening about that?”
“She wasn't talking to me,” the man explained, “She was talking to the doctor.”
【Words & Phrases】 reassurance:安心、安心させる head:頭、頭脳、リーダー nurse:看護婦 hospital:病院 frantically:半狂乱で、必死に、夢中になって wheelchair:車椅子 operation:手術 supposed to be:~であるべき What's the matter?:どうしたの? worry:心配する at ease:気楽に、安心して frightening:恐ろしい、ゾッとするような explaine:説明する
……【日本語訳】………………………………………………
■ ちょっと安心させる
看護師長が病院の廊下を歩いていたら半狂乱で車椅子に乗っている男に、 もう少しでひかれそうになった。
「あなた、今は手術を受けてるはずじゃないの?」看護師長が尋ねた。 「いったいどうしたのよ?」
「あそこの看護師が『心配しないで、簡単な手術よ。絶対大丈夫。』 って言ったんだ。」と男は言った。
「彼女はあなたを安心させようとしたのよ。」看護師長は言った。 「それの何がそんなに怖いの?」
「彼女は僕に言ってたんじゃないんだ。」男は説明した、 「彼女は医者に言ってたんだよ。」 ………
■ New Carpet
A carpet layer had just finished installing carpet for a young lady. He stepped outside for a smoke, but realized he'd misplaced his cigarettes. Going back into the room, he noticed a bump under the carpet. "No sense pulling the carpet back up just for one pack of smokes," he said to himself, and proceeded to get out his hammer and flatten the hump. As he was finishing up, the lady came in. "Here are your cigarettes," she said, handing him his smokes. "You left them in the kitchen," "Now," she said, "I wonder my pet hamster has got to."
One day at kindergarten a teacher said to the class of 5-year-olds, "I'll give $2 to the child who can tell me who was the most famous man who ever lived."
An Irish boy put his hand up and said, "It was St. Patrick." The teacher said, "Sorry Sean, that's not correct."
Then a Scottish boy put his hand up and said, "It was St. Andrew." The teacher replied, "I'm sorry, Hamish, that's not right either."
Finally, a Jewish boy raised his hand and said, "It was Jesus Christ." The teacher said, "That's absolutely right, Marvin, come up here and I'll give you the $2."
As the teacher was giving Marvin his money, she said, "You know Marvin, since you're Jewish, I was very surprised you said Jesus Christ."
Marvin replied, "Yeah. In my heart I knew it was Moses, but business is business."
【Words & Phrases】 kindergarten:幼稚園 correct:正しい、正解 Jesus Christ:イエス キリスト Moses:モーセ
Bobby's English teacher was incensed at the poor quality of one of Bobby's essays.
“This is the worst essay I've ever read in my life!” the teacher ranted. “Look at all these mistakes! I can't understand how one person could possibly make so many mistakes in one essay!”
“One person didn't make all those mistakes,” Bobby replied, defensively. “My father helped me.”
A teenage boy was having an argument with his parents.
“I've had enough!” he yelled. “I want excitement, adventure, money and beautiful women. There's no way I'm going to find any of that at home. I'm leaving, don't try and stop me!”
He turned and walked out the door. His father stood up and started to follow him out.
“Dad! Didn't you hear me! I said don't try and stop me!” the boy yelled.
“Stop you?” his father replied, “I'm going with you.”
An elderly man goes to a witch and asks her for help.
“I've been living with a curse for the last thirty years. Can you remove it?”
The witch replies, “I might be able to help you, but you will have to tell me the exact words that were used when the curse was put on you. Do you remember them?”
“Of course,” the man replies. “I now pronounce you man and wife.”