Student: I don't know which side to write the other 5!
【Words & Phrases】 beside:隣に waiting for:待つ
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■ 55
先生が生徒に「55」を書きなさいといった。
生徒が質問:どう書くの?
先生:5を書いて、その横にもうひとつの5でしょ!
5をひとつだけ書いたところで生徒の腕がとまった。
先生:なにグズグズしてるの?
生徒:もうひとつの5をどっち側に書けばいいのかわかんないの!
……………………………………… ■ Playing House
Julie and Billy were playing one day. Julie says to Billy, "Hey Billy, wanna play house?"
Billy says, "Sure! What do you want me to do?"
Julie explains, "I want you to communicate your feelings."
"Communicate my feelings?" says Billy, bewildered. "I don’t know what that means."
Julie smirks and says, "Perfect. You can be the husband."
【Words & Phrases】 play house:ままごと遊びをする、ままごと one day:ある日 Sure:いいよ、もちろん explain:説明する bewildered:とほうに暮れた、当惑した、混乱した smirk:ニヤニヤ笑う、作り笑いをする
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■ ままごと
ある日ジュリーとビリーは遊んでいた。ジュリーがビリーに言った。 「ねぇビリー、おままごとしない?」
ビリーが言った。「いいよ!何になって欲しい?」
ジュリーが説明した。「あなたの思っていることを言って欲しいわ。」
「思っていることを言う?」とビリーがためらいながら言った。 「それ、よくわかんないや。」
ジュリーがニヤリとして言った。 「よくできました。夫になってもいいわよ。」
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■ Bad day
A tearful man sat at a bar, staring into his glass for over an hour. A big, rough-looking biker plonked himself down next to the man, grabbed the man’s drink and drank it in one. The man burst into tears.
“Oh, come on,” the biker said, “I was only kidding. Here, I’ll get you another drink.”
“No, that’s not what’s wrong,” the man sobbed.
“This has been the worst day of my life. This morning I made a big mistake at work and was fired. Then when I left the office, I found my car had been stolen so I had to walk all the way home. And when I got home, I walked in and found my wife in bed with my best friend, so I came here. And just when I'm about to end it all, you come in and drink my poison!"
The other day, University scientists released the results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer.
The theory is that beer contains female hormones (hops contain phytoestrogens) and that by drinking enough beer, men turn into women.
To test the theory, 100 men were fed 8 pints of beer each within an 1 hour period. It was then observed that 100% of the test subjects:
1) Gained weight. 2) Talked excessively without making sense. 3) Became overly emotional. 4) Couldn't drive. 5) Failed to think rationally. 6) Argued over nothing. 7) Had to sit down while urinating. 8) Refused to apologize when obviously wrong.
Q: What's the difference between a new wife and a new dog?
A: After a year, the dog’s still happy to see you.
【Words & Phrases】 difference between A and B:AとBの違い
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■ 夫と犬
Q:新しい妻と新しい犬の違いはなんでしょう?
A:一年後、犬はあなたを見てもまだうれしそうなこと。
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■ New Employee
The new employee was standing in front of the paper shredder with a very confused look on his face.
One of his workmates, who was passing by, kindly asked him if he needed any help.
"Actually, yes," the new employee replied. "How does this thing work?"
"Easy. You just insert the document here and press this button." his workmate explained, taking the fat report from his hand and feeding it into the shredder.
There was a moment of silence before the new employee asked, "Thanks, but where do the copies come out?"
Senior citizen Alf was driving along the highway when he received a call from his wife on his car phone.
When he answered, his worried wife warned him, “Alf dear, please be careful. I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on Highway 260.”
“I know,” said Alf, “But it's not just one car, it's hundreds of them.”
【Words & Phrases】 Senior citizen:年配者、高齢者 drive along~:~に沿ってドライブする worried:心配した be careful:気をつけて、注意する
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.”
9ヶ月の妊婦がしりもちをつくなんざあ、無用心にもほどがある。 頭痛はする、目眩はする、足はむくんでくる。 妊娠7ヶ月頃から「Fetal Movement Record」って、お腹の子供が動く 回数を記録してるんだけど、この回数も減ってる。 一週間後の産婦人科検診でドクターに話したら、時期的に やるべき検査もあったんだろうけど、ベータ連鎖球菌検査、膣検査、 血液検査、Ultrasound、Non-stress Test と5種類もの検査を 受ける羽目になってしまった。
ドクターに”しりもち確認”の質問をされた。 「Do you have a headache?」 「Yes.」 「Did the dog's rope hit your face?」 「Yes.」 「Did you fall backwards?」 「Yes.」 「Is your husband nice?」 「?????」
Nadine had just bought some new, expensive cosmetics that were guaranteed to make her look years younger. After sitting in front of the mirror for some time applying them, she asked her husband Grant, “Darling, tell me honestly, how old do you think I look?”
After looking at her for a few moments, Grant answered, “Well, judging by your skin, twenty two, your figure, twenty, and your hair, twenty five.”
“Oh darling, do you really think I look that young?” Nadine beamed in delight.
“Hang on a minute,” Grant continued, “I haven't added them up yet!”
【Words & Phrases】 Nadine:ナディーン(女性の名) cosmetics:化粧品 guaranteed:保障付きの apply:使用する、付ける Grant:グラント、グラン(男性の名) honestly:正直に a few moments:少しの間 beam:心からの笑顔 in delight:大喜びで add:加える、足し算をする
A woman was rushed to hospital in great pain. Her husband waited worriedly in the waiting room, and was concerned when the doctor emerged a couple of minutes later and asks his assistant for a wrench.
A couple of minutes later, the doctor came out again and asked for a screwdriver. This made the husband very worried.
Finally, when the doctor came out asking for a hammer, the husband, in a state of terror, took him by the arm and demanded, “Doctor, what in blazes is wrong with my wife?”
“I don't know,” the doctor replied flustered, “I can't get my stupid bag open.”
"This morning I felt that today was going to be my lucky day. I got up at seven, had seven dollars in my pocket, there were seven of us at lunch and there were seven horses in the seven o'clock race - so I backed the seventh."
A little boy went to see a new litter of kittens with his father. When he got home, he excitedly told his mother, “There were three boy kittens and two girl kittens.”
“How did you know that?” asked his mother.
“Daddy picked them up and looked underneath,” the boy explained, “I think it’s printed on the bottom.”
【Words & Phrases】 Kitten:子猫 litter of kittens:一腹の子猫 excitedly:ワクワクして、興奮して underneath:下の部分、底 explaine:説明する
A young student reports for a final examination that consists of only true false type statements. The student takes a seat in the hall, stares at the question paper for five minutes, removes a coin 。。and starts tossing the coin and marking the answer sheet. Heads means true, tails means false. The young student is all done in 30 minutes while the rest of the class is sweating it out.
But, suddenly, during the last few minutes, the young student is seen desperately throwing the coin, swearing and sweating. The moderator, alarmed, approaches the student and asks what is going on.
"Well, I finished the exam in half an hour," says the student, "but I thought I ought to recheck my answers."
A college dean was berating a veteran economics professor for having used the same tests for the past 35 years.
"Don't you realize, professor, that the students have been sharing these tests for decades and that all of your students know EXACTLY what's on the test before they sit for it?"
"Doesn't matter," replied the professor. "You must realize that the subject is economics. The answers are different each year!"
Two young boys were spending the night at their grandparents the week before Christmas. At bedtime, the two boys knelt beside their beds to say their prayers when the youngest one began praying at the top of his lungs.
"I PRAY FOR A NEW BICYCLE..." "I PRAY FOR A NEW NINTENDO..." "I PRAY FOR A NEW VCR..."
His older brother leaned over and nudged the younger brother and said, "Why are you shouting your prayers? God isn't deaf."
To which the little brother replied, "No, but Grandma is!"
A boy was assigned a paper on childbirth and asked his parents "how was I born?"
"Well honey..."said the slightly prudish parent, "the stork brought you to us."
"OH," said the boy. "Well, how did you and daddy get born?" he asked.
"Oh, the stork brought us too."
"Well, how were grandpa and grandma born?" he persisted.
"Well darling, the stork brought them too!" said the parent, by now getting irritated with a lazy boy.
Several days later, the boy handed in his paper to the teacher who read with confusion the opening sentence: "This report has been very difficult to write due to the fact that there hasn't been a natural childbirth in my family for three generations."
【Words & Phrases】 child birth:出産 prudish:内気ぶって stork:コウノトリ persist:続ける get irritated:いらいらする hand in:提出する confusion:困惑 due to~:~のせいで