Two bored casino dealers were waiting at a craps table when a very attractive blonde lady came in and announced that she wanted to bet twenty-thousand dollars on a single roll of the dice.
She says, "I hope you don't mind, but I feel much luckier when I'm completely naked."
With that she stripped until she was stark naked, and rolled the dice yelling, "Come on baby, Momma needs new clothes!"
Then she started screaming "YES! yes,! I WON! I WON!" and started jumping up and down and hugging each of the dealers.
With that she picked up her money and clothes and quickly left.
The dealers stared at each other dumbfounded.
Finally one of them asked, "What did she roll anyway?" The other answered, "I don’t know. I thought YOU were watching!"
Ethel and George were having an elegant dinner to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary when George took his wife by the hand and said quietly,
“Darling, there is something that's been bothering me for a long time. I must ask you about our tenth child. He never looked like the rest of our kids. I want you to know that I love you and that the 75 years we have spent together have been more wonderful than I could have dreamed and that your answer will not change any of that. But please tell me, did he have a different father?”
Ethel hung her head, then after a moment, confessed. “Yes, he did have a different father.”
Despite his suspicions, George was shocked to hear the truth. His eyes welling up with tears, he asked, “Who was he? Who was the father?”
Again, Ethel hung her head, trying to gather the courage to tell her husband the truth. Then, after a long pause, she finally replied, “You.”
An old man and woman were talking in a nursing home. Suddenly, the woman said, "I can guess your age."
The man didn't believe her, but told her to go ahead and try.
"Pull down your pants," she said.
He didn't understand, but did it anyway. She inspected his rear end for a few minutes and then said, "You're 84 years old."
"That's amazing," the man said. “How did you know that?”
"Simple. You told me yesterday."
【Words & Phrases】 Behind:尻、後ろ、裏側 nursing home:老人ホーム、高齢者福祉施設 believe:信じる go ahead:先に進む、先に出る understand:理解する inspected:検査する for a few minutes:数分間 amazing:驚くほどの、すごい
The family wheeled Grandma out on the lawn, in her wheelchair, where the activities for her 100th birthday were taking place.
Grandma couldn't speak very well, but she could write notes when she needed to communicate.
After a short time out on the lawn, Grandma started leaning off to the right, so some family members grabbed her, straightened her up, and stuffed pillows on her right.
A short time later, she started leaning off to her left, so again the family grabbed her and stuffed pillows on her left.
Soon she started leaning forward, so the family members again grabbed her, then tied a pillowcase around her waist to hold her up.
A nephew who arrived late came running up to Grandma and said, "Hi Grandma, you're looking good! How are they treating you?"
Grandma took out her little notepad and slowly wrote a note to the nephew, "They won't let me fart."
A father brought his son into the doctor because the boy had a matchbox car shoved up his nose. All the while the doctor was trying to remove the car, the father kept saying, "I don't know how he did it."
Finally the doctor managed to remove the little car, and the father and son left.
A few hours later, the father came back with the matchbox shoved up HIS nose. He told the doctor, "Now I know how he did it!"
【Words & Phrases】 childlike: 無邪気な curiosity: 好奇心 shove: 突っ込む matchbox: マッチボックス(英国製のミニカー) all the while:その間じゅう
Gladys had a reputation as a matchmaker. Always looking to hook someone up, she went to see Arnold, who was getting on in years but had never been married.
"Now Arnold, don't leave it too late,” Gladys said.
“I know exactly the lady for you. Just say the word and I'll introduce you. You could be married in no time!"
"No thanks, I'm not interested," Arnold replied, "I've got two sisters at home, who look after me."
"That's all very fine,” Gladys huffed, “But all the sisters in the world cannot fill the role of a wife."
Arnold smirked, "I said 'two sisters'. I didn't say they were mine."
【Words & Phrases】 reputation:評判、噂、世評 matchmaker:男女の縁を取り持つ仲人 introduce:紹介する in no time:すぐに not interested:興味ない replied:返事をした look after~:~の世話をする huffed:怒る smirk:気取った笑い、作り笑い
Eight-year-old Sally brought her report card home from school. Her marks were good...mostly A's and a couple of B's.
However, her teacher had written across the bottom:"Sally is a smart little girl, but she has one fault. She talks too much in school. I have an idea I am going to try, which I think may break her of the habit."
Sally's dad signed her report card, putting a note on the back:"Please let me know if your idea works on Sally because I would like to try it out on her mother."
【Words & Phrases】 bottom: 最下部 smart: 頭のよい fault: 欠点 habit: 習慣、癖 work on : 影響を与える try out: <計画など>を十分に試してみる
PUPIL: "Would you punish me for something I didn`t do?"
TEACHER:" Of course not."
PUPIL: "Good, because I haven`t done my homework."
【Words & Phrases】 PUPIL:児童、生徒
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■ 宿題
生徒:「ボクがなにもしてないのに罰をうけることってある?」
先生:「もちろん、ないわよ」
生徒:「よかったあ、だってボク、宿題やってないんだ」
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■Guardian Angel
A man was walking in the street when he heard a voice. "Stop! Stand still! If you take one more step, a brick will fall down on your head and kill you."
The man stopped and a big brick fell right in front of him. The man was astonished.
He went on, and after a while he was going to cross the road. Once again the voice shouted: "Stop! Stand still! If you take one more step a car will run over you and you will die."
The man did as he was instructed, just as a car came careening around the corner, barely missing him.
"Where are you?" the man asked. "Who are you?"
"I am your guardian angel," the voice answered.
"Oh yeah?" the man asked. "And where the hell were you when I got married?"
【Words & Phrases】 Stand still!:動かないで! astonished:驚いて careen:すごいスピードで進む
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.”
The CEO was scheduled to speak at an important convention so he asked one of his employees, Jenkins, to write him a punch, 20-minute speech. When the CEO returned from the big event, he was furious.
"What's the idea of writing me an hour-long speech," he demanded. "Half the audience walked out before I finished."
Jenkins was baffled. "I wrote you a 20-minute speech," he replied. "I also gave you the two extra copies you asked for."
A customer sent an order to a distributor for a large amount of goods totaling a great deal of money.
The distributor noticed that the previous bill hadn't been paid. The collections manager left a voice-mail for them saying, "We can't ship your new order until you pay for the last one."
The next day the collections manager received a collect phone call, "Please cancel the order. We can't wait that long."
【Words & Phrases】 complaint:苦情 distributor:卸業者 a great deal of:たくさんの previous:以前の voice-mail:音声による電子メール
A millionaire informs his attorney, "I want a stipulation in my Will that my wife is to inherit everything, but only if she remarries within six months of my death."
"Why such an odd stipulation?" asks the attorney.
"Because," he says, "I want someone to be sorry I died."
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?”
A fellow is going on a tour of a factory that produces various latex products. At the first stop, he's shown the machine that manufactures baby-bottle nipples. The machine makes a loud hiss-pop noise.
"The hiss is the rubber being injected into the mold," explains the guide. "The popping sound is a needle poking a hole in the end of the nipple."
Later, the tour reaches the part of the factory where condoms are manufactured. The machine makes a noise: 'Hiss. Hiss. Hiss. Hiss-pop"
"Wait a minute" says the man taking the tour. "I understand what the 'hiss, hiss,' is, but what's that 'pop' every so often?"
"Oh, it's just the same as in the baby-bottle nipple machine," says the guide. "It pokes a hole in every fourth condom."
"Well, that can't be good for the condoms"
"Yeah, but it's great for the baby-bottle nipple business"
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
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.”
The man told his doctor that he wasn't able to do all the things around the house that he used to do.
When the examination was complete, he said, "Now, Doc, I can take it. Tell me in plain English what is wrong with me."
"Well, in plain English," the doctor replied, "you're just lazy."
"OK," said the man. "Now give me the medical term so I can tell my wife."
【Words & Phrases】 term: 専門用語 examination: 診察 Doc:医者、先生 complete: 終える can take it:(困難などに)耐える lazy : 怠惰な(性格)
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■医学用語
男は医者に、今までしていた家事のすべてができなくなったと話した。
診察を終えて彼は言った「先生、覚悟はついてます。どこが悪いのか 簡単な言葉でおっしゃってください」
「では、簡単な言葉で言わせてもらうと、」医者は言った。 「あなたは怠け者です」
「わかりました」男は言った。 「じゃあ、妻にいいわけできるように医学用語でお願いします」
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■ Spicing Things Up
“My marriage is boring. There’s no thrill left anymore,” Roger moaned to his best friend Greg. “Well, why not spice things up and bit and have an affair?” Greg suggested.
“But what if my wife finds out?” Roger exclaimed. “Come on Roger, it’s 2005! It’s perfectly alright to do things like that nowadays! Go and tell her about it!” Greg replied.
Taking his friend’s advice, Roger went home and said to his wife, “Darling, I think an affair would bring us closer together."
“Forget it,” his wife replied. “I’ve tried that heaps of times. It’s never worked.”
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."