How Did You Ever Get HereOne winter morning, an employee explained why he had shown up for work 45 minutes late. "It was so slippery out that for...
Charge for Bread and ButterSome years ago, my dad, an attorney, took me to a fancy restaurant in Now York City. When the bill arrived, there was a $1....
A friend of mine who teachs European history at Washington University in St. Louis tell about the time he spotted a plagiarized（剽窃，抄袭） term paper. He ...
Many years after receiving my graduate degree, I returned to the State University of New York at Binghamton as a faculty member. One day in a crowded ...
"I can always tell a graduate class from an undergraduate class," observed the instructor in one of my graduate engineering courses at Calif...
"All the kids make fun of me," the boy cried to his mother, "They say I have a big head.""Don't listen to them," his...
Three famous surgeons were bragging about（吹嘘，炫耀） their skills. "A man came to me who had his hand cut off," said one. "Today that man i...
If you refuse to marry me, he swore, I shall die.She refused him.Sixty years later, he died.如果你不答应嫁给我，他发誓，我就要去死。她拒绝了他。六十年后，他死了。...
One day a boy came to his teacher and said: Teacher, pa wants to know if you like roast（烘烤） pig.I certainly do, said the teacher, and you tell your fa...
One night a hotel caught fire, and the people who were staying in it ran out in their night clothes.Two men stood outside and looked at the fire.Befor...