This is your captain speaking. On behalf of my crew. I'd like to welcome you aboard British Airways flight 602 from New York to London. We are cur...
On the day of our final exam at my Community College in Santa Maria, Calif., we heard that the bookstore had changed its policy and would buy back our...
The landlady said to the hard-up author: "When will you pay arrears（拖欠，滞付） of room rent?"The author replied: "I will pay you as soon as...
The speaker found some people leaving the building during the meeting.He was annoyed. Then he had an idea. When someone else started out, the called o...
An editor stuck up a notice above his desk. It read, "Accuracy! Accuracy! Accuracy!" and he always pointed it out to the new reporters.One d...
A political speaker was annoyed by a man in the audience. The man coughed and sneezed and blew his nose almost constantly.Finally the speaker was unab...
An old man of seventy-six went to a doctor to request a general check up as to the state of his health.The doctor looked him up thoroughly, and then t...
A pretentious（自命不凡的） scholar was keen to show off. One day when he was being rowed across a stream, he asked the boatman: "Do you understand phil...
A man stopped at a place where a subscription（捐献） was being raised for the purpose of fencing the cemetery（墓地）. A lot of people had made a donation.Th...
A lawyer was examining a suspect to check whether he was mentally ill.“Who was our first president?“ asked the lawyer. The suspect answered, “Washingt...