Posts in category "Puns’n'slips"
World Wide What?
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Про Всемирную Паутину (www, то есть world wide web), думаю, никому из посетителей нашего сайта рассказывать не надо. Но оказывается, не одна она такая "всемирно широкая"! Попалась тут давеча на глаза наклеечка на уличной урне — "world wide waste" (см. фото). Действительно, отходы ведь тоже "всемирны"... [...]
26.09.2011 / Abbreviations, Puns'n'slips
Some Interesting Facts
0"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1″ encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. The name for Oz in the [...]
18.12.2001 / Puns'n'slips
Six Afraid of Seven
2Why is six afffffraid of seven? Because seven eight nine! [...]
12.12.2001 / Puns'n'slips
Keep Your Sanity
01. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down. 2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice. 3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that. 4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "in". 5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten [...]
20.11.2001 / Puns'n'slips
Terms
0Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other. Marriage: It's an agreement in which man loses his bachelor degree and woman gains her master. Divorce: Future tense of marriage. College: A place where some pursue learning and others learn pursuing. Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece. Dictionary: A place where divorce comes before [...]
14.11.2001 / Puns'n'slips
Strange but interesting facts
0A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." (очень удачно подвернулось, вдогонку к разделу INTERESTING) The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means [...]
04.11.2001 / Puns'n'slips
Wrong Choice
0I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was "Always." ("Я женился на мисс Райт. Только вот... я не знал, что ее зовут Олвейз.") right — правый, правильный; верный always — всегда [...]
16.09.2001 / Puns'n'slips
Jeweler and Jailer
7What's the difference between a jeweler and a jailer? ("В чем заключается разница между ювелиром и заключенным?") One sells watches and the other watches cells. ("Первый продает часы, а второй видит небо в клеточку.") [...]
24.08.2001 / Puns'n'slips
Milk
0To keep milk from turning sour: keep it in the cow. ("Чтобы молоко не прокисало, нужно держать его в корове.") [...]
21.08.2001 / Puns'n'slips
The Moon
0The moon is a planet just like the Earth, only it is even deader. ("Луна — это такая же планета, как Земля, только еще мертвее.") [...]
28.06.2001 / Puns'n'slips
