The notorious cheap skate finally decided to have a party. Explaining to a friend how to find his apartment, he said, "Come up to 5M and ring the doorbell with your elbow. When the door open, push with your foot."
"Why use my elbow and foot?"
"Well, gosh," was the reply, "Youre not coming empty-hangded, are you?"
"My family is just like a nation," Mr. Brown told his colleague. "My wife is the minister of finance, my mother-in-law is the minister of war, and my daughter is foreign secretary."
"Sounds interesting, " his colleague replied. "And what is your position?"
one day after school the teacher said to his students, "tomorrow morning, if any one of you can answer my first question, i will permit him or her to go home earlier."
the next day, when the teacher came into the classroom, he found the blackboard daubed(涂抹) . he was very angry and asked, "who did it? please stand up!" "its me," said bob, "now, i can go home. good-bye, sir."
before the final examination, tom told his mother, "mom, i had a dream last night that id passed todays exam."
在期末考试之前,汤姆告诉他的母亲:“妈妈,我昨天晚上做了一个梦,梦见我通过了今天的考试。”
"dont trust dreams, dear. it is said what you experience in dreams usually turns out to be the opposite." mother replied.
“不要相信梦,亲爱的。据说梦中的经历通常与现实相反。”妈妈答道。
"then i do hope ill fail the other subjects in my dream tonight," tom said.
“那么,我真希望在今晚的梦中,我的其他功课都不及格。”汤姆说。
Saving lives.
At a pre-med university in St. Louis, we had to take a difficult class in physics. One day the professor was discussing a particularly complicated concept. A student rudely interrupted to ask, "Why do we have to learn this stuff?"
"To save lives." The professor responded quickly and continued the lecture.
A few minutes later, the same student spoke up again. "So how does physics save lives?" he persisted.
"It usually keeps the idiots like you out of medical school," replied the professor.
The mourners pain.
A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly departed mother and started back toward his car when his attention was diverted to another man kneeling at a grave.
The man seemed to be praying with profound intensity and kept repeating, “Why did you have to die? Why did you have to die?”
The first man approached him and said, “Sir, I dont wish to interfere with your private grief, but this demonstration of pain is more than Ive ever seen before. For whom do you mourn so deeply? A child? A parent?”
The mourner took a moment to collect himself, then replied, “My wifes first husband.”
Black eyes.
A man came to work on Monday morning with two black eyes. His boss asked what happened.
The man replied, “On Sunday, I was sitting behind a big woman at church. When we stood up to sing hymns, I noticed that her dress was caught in her butt crack, so I was trying to be nice and I pulled it out for her. Then, she turned around and punched me in the eye.”
The boss asked, “Okay, so where did you get the other shiner?”
“Well,” the man said, “I figured she didn’t want it out, so I pushed it back in.”
Why should I give you money.
A very rich lawyer is approached by the United Way. The man from the United Way is concerned that the lawyer made over $1,000,000.00 last year but didnt donate even a cent to a charity.
"First of all", says the lawyer, "my mother is sick and dying in the hospital, and its not covered by healthcare. Second, I had five kids through three divorced marriages. Third, my sisters husband suddenly died and she has no one to support her four children..."
"Im terribly sorry", says the United Way man, "I feel bad about asking for money."
The Lawyer responds, "Yeah, well if Im not giving them any money, why should I give you any?"
The hostess apologized to her unexpected guest for serving an apple-pie without any cheese. The little boy of the family left the room quietly for a moment and returned with a piece of cheese which he laid on the guests plate.
The visitor smiled, put the cheese into his mouth and then said: "You must have better eyes than your mother, sonny. Where did you find the cheese?" "In the rat-trap, sir," replied the boy.
One day, the father lets eight-year-old son send a letter. The son took the letter. The father then remembered he didnt write address and addressees name on the envelope.
After the son comes back, the father asks him: "You have thrown the letter into the mail box?"
"Certainly."
"You didnt notice that?the envelope does not have address and addressees name on it?"
"I certainly saw nothing written on the envelope."
"Then why?didnt you take it back?"
"I thought that you?did not write address and addressee, because you wouldnt let me know to whom you send the letter!"
The New Teacher.
George comes from school on the first of September.
"George, how did you like your new teacher?" asked his mother.
"I didnt like her, Mother, because she said that three and three were six and then she said that two and four were six too....."
Make the bed 21ST Host: If you stay overnight, you'll have to make your own bed.Guest: That's okay with me.Host: Here's a hammer (铁锤) and a saw (锯).An eclipse of the sun 21ST Teacher: What happens when there is an eclipse (日食) of the sun?Pupil: Many people go out into streets to look at itWhen you close your eyes 21ST Teacher: What is the biggest thing in the world?Jerry: Em, eyelids (眼皮), I think.Teacher: Why?Jerry: They have the whole (整个的) world under them when we close our eyes.I'm the bus driverA BUS full of people was parked on a slope (斜坡...? There are lots of them."The man replied: "No I can't. I'm the driver Joke 21ST What's the weather like?今日天气如何?Ella: What's the weather like today?Jacky: I don't know. There are too many clouds in the sky. I can't see. Why not sleep?为何不睡觉?Mum: Why didn't you sleep ……
一个人学了一些英文,不多,也不精,就是 i am sorry! one two three....ten 这么多了,到美国后,出笑话了!!! 一日他骑车在一个街头,不小心和一个当地人撞车了, 他当机立断,say: i am sorry!!! 美国人一笑,say: i am sorry too !!! 这人一愣,想:妈的,考我来了!!! say: i am sorry three!!! 美国人一愣,say: what are you sorry for??? 这人怒了,靠,当我是煞笔了,妈的,给咱们中国人争这一口气!!! say: i am sorry five!!!
It depends——One day a doctor went to a store and bought a pair of shoes. Before he left the shoes counter, he asked the salesgirl: " How long will this pair of shoes last?""It depends. If you don t use it, the shoes will never wear out. Several days later the salesgirl fell ill and went to a hospital. And the happened to be the customer she served. After the girl got the prescription from the doctor, she asked: "How soon will I get better with the medicine?"It depends. " The doctor answered, "If you don t use it, you will never get better.