Formal announcement 正式通知 My friend，soon to be a bride，attended a church wedding where a number of babies and small children in the con-gregation caused quite a commotion. "I cer ...

Creativity 创造力 On the first night of an adult creative-writing class，the instructor asked the students to tell the class why they were taking the course. One woman explained，"I have f ...

Never agree .存有二心 The local weatherman was wrong in his forecasts so often that he was embarrassed and applied for a transfer，stating as his reason:"The climate here doesn't agree wit ...

The Pope dies and goes to heaven. St. Peter greets him and says, "Glad to see you; we've got your place all ready.” Peter then takes the Pope down the street and shows him his new home: a small bu ...

This is a true story, which happened to me. For a while, I worked as a cashier at a local drugstore. Well, one afternoon, while I was working at the drug counter，a woman came in and dropped off 3 ...

In response to the request for "kids growing up" stories, here's one told to me many years ago by some friends about their five一year一old daughter Laura. The mother calls it "The Kevin Incident.” ...

Harry was in the hospital. He was an old man. Any way there was this young nurse. Every time she came in, she talked to him like a little child. She would say in a patronizing tone of voice" And how ...

A man is walking past a travel agents office when he notices a billboard announcing, "4 day cruise down the Murray River $40 all inclusive.” 一个男人路过旅行社时，看到一个广告栏 ...

My husband, not happy with my mood swings, bought me a mood ring the other day so that he would be able to monitor my moods. When I’m in a good mood it turns green. When I' m in a bad mood it leav ...

Now, what I did to a guy I didn't like one night is a classic: 有一天晚上，我针对一个自己讨厌的人所做的事情简直是妙极了: I saw him at a restaurant with his "other w ...