Several men are getting changed in the locker room of a gym club. A cell phone lying on the bench starts ringing, and a man, engaging the hands free speaker-function, answers it. Everyone else in the room goes quiet as they listen.
Man: Hello Woman: Hi honey, it’s me. Are you at the gym? Man: Yeah. Woman: I’m just at the mall and I found this gorgeous mink coat for only $1500 dollars. Do you mind if I buy it? Man: Not at all, go ahead. Woman: I also stopped by the BMW showroom and they have the latest model in. It’s $85,000. Man: OK, but for that price I want all the options. Woman: Great! And one more thing ? that house we were looking at last year is back on the market, and they’re asking only $900,000. Man: Well, go ahead and make an offer, but just offer $850,000. Woman: Great! See you later! I love you! Man: Bye. I love you too.
The man hangs up. The other guys are looking at him in amazement. Then he asks, “Any idea who that phone belongs to?”
【Words & Phrases】 cell phone:携帯電話 gorgeous:豪華な hang up:電話を切る belong:属する
An experienced surgeon had just arrived home from work and was relaxing on the sofa when the phone rang. When he answered it, he heard the familiar voice of one of his fellow doctors on the other end.
“We're just going to start a game of poker but we're one short,” said the colleague.
“I'll be right over,” the doctor replied.
As he was getting ready to go, his wife asked, “Is it serious?”
“Yes, I'm afraid it's quite serious,” the doctor answered gravely, “In fact, there are already three other doctors there.”
【Words & Phrases】 surgeon:外科医 fellow:仲間、同僚 right over:すぐに serious:深刻、重大 quite:かなり、非常に
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 ? 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."
A fisherman had a little too much to drink one day, but decided to go fishing anyway.
He drilled a hole in the ice and looked down into the hole, hoping to see some fish. Suddenly, a big voice boomed, “There are no fish down there!”
The fisherman was surprised, but decided to try again. He walked for a few metres, drilled another hole and looked down into it. Again, a large voice boomed, “There are no fish down there!”
By this time, the fisherman was getting a bit nervous, but tried one more time. He walked for a few metres again, drilled another hole and looked hard, hoping he would catch sight of some fish. But once more, the voice rang out, “There are no fish down there!”
The fisherman was scared to death, but summoned up the strength to call out, “Is that you, God?”
“No, you fool,” the voice replied. “It's the manager of the rink.”
【Words & Phrases】 fisherman:漁師 drill:ドリルで穴を開ける Suddenly:突然 boom:とどろく a bit:少し nervous:神経質な、気にする、緊張する scared to death:死ぬほど怖い思いをした summon:呼び起こす strength:強さ replied:返事をした
"Doc," said the young man, "You've got to help me! Every night I have the same terrible dream. I'm lying in bed when all of a sudden three gorgeous women rush in and start tearing off my clothes." The psychiatrist nodded, "And what do you do?" "I push them away!" "I see. And what can I do to help you with this?" The patient implored, "Please, Break my arms!"
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?”
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 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.”
Bill, a 70 year old extremely wealthy widower, showed up at the local Country Club with an extremely beautiful and very sexy 20 year-old blonde who blew everyone away with her youthful appeal and charm while draping herself all over Bill and listening intently to his every word.
His buddies at the club were all aghast.
They cornered him and asked, “Bill, how did you hook up with your gorgeous girlfriend?”
Bill replied, "Girlfriend? She's my wife!"
They were flabbergasted. "How did you get her to marry you?"
"I lied about my age," Bill smiled.
"What do you mean? Did you tell her you were only 50?" his friends responded.
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.
A husband and wife were involved in a petty argument, both of them unwilling to admit they might be in error. "I'll admit I'm wrong," the wife told her husband in a conciliatory attempt, "if you'll admit I'm right."
He agreed and, like a gentleman, insisted she go first. "I'm wrong," she said.
With a twinkle in his eye, he responded, "You're right!"
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 calls the hospital in a panic, “My wife is pregnant, and her contractions are only two minutes apart!”
“Is this her first child?” the nurse asks.
“No, you idiot!” the man yells, “This is her husband!”
【Words & Phrases】 in a panic:パニック状態で pregnant:妊娠している contraction:陣痛、子宮収縮 two minutes apart:2分間隔 nurse:看護婦 idiot:バカ yell:怒鳴る
……【日本語訳】……………………………………
■初めての出産
ある男がパニックになって病院に電話をした。
「妻は妊娠していて、陣痛が2分おきに来ているんです!」
「奥様の最初のお子さんですか?」と看護師が尋ねた。
「違うよ、バカ!」と男は叫んだ。「俺は彼女の夫だ!」
………………………………………………………… ■Swimming
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."
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。」
………………………………………… An old granny who lived in a fifth floor apartment fell and broke her leg. After fitting her with a cast, the doctor advised her not to climb any stairs until the break was healed.
After several months, the granny went to have her cast taken off.
“Doctor,” she asked, “Is it alright for me to climb stairs now?”
“Yes,” the doctor replied.
“Thank goodness!” the granny grinned, “I was getting sick of shinnying up and down that drainpipe!”
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."
A woman visited a famous fortune-teller and asked to know her fortune.
The fortune-teller lay out her Tarot cards and after studying them for a few moments, turned to the woman and pronounced, “There is no easy way to say this so I'll come straight to the point. You will soon be a widow. Your husband will die a violent and horrible death in the next six months.”
Shocked, the woman took a few deep breaths to steady herself and hesitated before asking the Tarot reader her next question. Looking the fortune-teller in the eye, she steadied her voice and asked, “Will I get away with it?”
ショックを受けた女は2、3回深呼吸をして気持ちを落ち着かせると、 次の質問にとまどっている様子だった。女は占い師の目を見ながら、 声の調子を整えると言った。「ばれないでうまくやれるかしら?」 ……………………………… ■ Heads or Tails
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."
Two elderly couples were enjoying friendly conversation when one of the men asked the other, "Fred, how was the memory clinic you went to last month?"
"Outstanding," Fred replied. "They taught us all the latest psychological techniques-visualization, association-it has made a big difference for me."
"That's great! What was the name of that clinic?"
Fred went blank. He thought and thought but couldn't remember. Then a smile broke across his face and he asked, "What do you call that flower with the long stem and thorns?"
"You mean a rose?"
"Yes, that's it!" He turned to his wife, "Rose, what was the name of that clinic?"
Johnny had been misbehaving and was sent to his room. After a while he emerged and informed his mother that he had thought it over and then said a prayer.
"Fine" said the pleased mother. "If you ask God to help you not misbehave, He will help you."
"Oh, I didn't ask Him to help me not misbehave," said Johnny. "I asked Him to help you put up with me."
【Words & Phrases】 misbehaving:悪い事をする emerge:現れる inform:知らせる、告げる pleased:喜んだ put up with:~に我慢する
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?"