1 理智的交談 A Cerebra Conversation
A Sri一Lankian professor went to London on his sabbatical. After three months he was tired of English food and went to a butcher shop to buy something to allay his homesickness.
“Have you brain?”he asked the butcher.
The butcher stared at him for a minute then said,“If I had any,do you think I'd be working here?”
2 相反的例子 An Opposite Example
An aesthetics professor’s grandson asked his grandfather,"grandpa,why did you say that all the false are ugly?”
"That is certainly true. Couldn't you give me an opposite example?”
“Oh,yes,"the grandson,climbing in his grandfather’s knee,said proudly,“Looking at yourself,when you put on your false teeth,you look younger and lively; when you get off them,you mouth looks empty and shriveled, which is really ugly Isn’t it an opposite example?”
The professor could find no answer.
3 他的足球能出來玩玩嗎 Can His Football Come To Play
A little boy knocked on the door of his classmate's house.When his classmate's mother answered,he said,
"Can Julian come out to play,please?”
“No,I am afraid not.”said Julian’s mother,"It is too wet.”
"Well,then,”asked the lad,"can his football come to play?”
4 一個感人的告別 A Touching Farewell
Two old friends were out golfing. As they were'preparing to tee off near a road, a funeral cortege drove by and one of the two friends took off his hat and held it over his heart until the line of cars had passed. "Well, that was good manners on your part," said his partner. "Oh, it was the least I could do. After all we would have been married thirty years next Tuesday. "
5 六個月之後 In Six Months
A school leaver was being interviewed for a job as an office boy.
"You will get five pounds a week to start off with,”said the boss,"And then after six months you will get ten pounds a week.”
"Right,"said the lad.“I will come back in six months.”
6 免驚啦!No Worries
At the swimming pool one day, a child asked his mother,
"Mommy, Mommy, can I go swimming?"
"Certainly not, darling. The water's much too deep. "
"But Daddy's swimming, Mommy."
"Your daddy's insured, sweetheart."
(from internet)