Pocket English - Английский на каждый день - 19 июля 2013
Анекдоты
A woman walks into the Post Office to buy stamps for her Christmas cards.
`What denomination?` asks the clerk.
`Oh, good heavens! Have we come to this?` said the woman. `Well, give me 50 Baptist and 50 Catholic and one Methodist.`
Слова для запоминания:
stamp - марка denomination - стоимость, ценность (а также вероисповедание, конфессия)
A man left his cat with his brother while he went on vacation for a week. When
he came back, the man called his brother to see when he could pick the cat up. The brother hesitated, then said,
`I’m so sorry, but while you were away, the cat died.`
The man was very upset and yelled,
`You know, you could have broken the news to me better than that. When I called today, you could have said he was on the roof and wouldn’t come down. Then when I called the next day, you could have said that he had fallen off and the vet was working on patching him up. Then when I called the third day, you could have said he had passed away.`
The brother thought about it and apologized.
`So how’s Mom?` asked the man.
`She`s on the roof and won’t come down.`