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Good news for change How about some good news for a change? Something to consider when you are in a people-are-no-damn-good mood? Here's a phrase we hear a lot: “You can't trust anybody anymore.” Doctors and politicians and merchants and salesmen. They're all out to rip you off, right? It ain't necessarily so. Man named Steven Brill tested the theory. In New York City, with taxicab drivers. Brill posed as a well-to-do foreigner with little knowledge of English. He got into several dozen taxis around New York City to see how many drivers would cheat him. His friends predicted in advance that most would take advantage of him in some way. One driver out of thirty-seven cheated him. The rest took him directly to his destination and charged him correctly. Several refused to take him when his destination was only a block or two away, even getting out of their cabs to show him how close he already was. The greatest irony of all was that several drivers warned him th...

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Regarding first presidential debate in 2020:  If I wanted to watch 2 old people insult each other for an hour and a half, I would visit my grandparents. 2020最佳微小说《初心》: 邻居老王养的狗死了,老王悲伤不已,他不想土葬,他说想给它火葬,把骨灰撒回大海,让它回到母亲的怀抱。谁知道那玩意儿越烤越香,后来他就买了两瓶啤酒.......... 很多事情,走着走着,就忘了初心。 一人刚到美国没多久,英语发音不是很准,一天,开车找车位,问路人, excuse me,can I park here? 路人回答,sure , you can bark anywhere,this is free country. 有个印度人介绍自己和太太的年龄。他们分别是"thirty and thirty tow”, 但是印度人大舌头,说成了“ I am dirty and my wife is dirty too”. 墨西哥人考公民,人家让用“green, pink,and yellow " 造句。他说,“the phone green, I pink up the phone and said, yellow ". 他成了美国人。 有个大妈在湖上划船钓鱼。躺下休息了一会儿,船自己飘到了非钓鱼区。过来了巡警要罚款。大妈说,“我啥也没干”!巡警说,“你有所有的equipment,怎么证明你没干”? 大妈说,“只要你敢开罚单,我就告你性骚扰”。巡警说,“我啥也没干”!大妈说,“你有所有的equipment”。 土耳其民间谚语: “森林在减小,可树木一直在投票支持斧头当首领,因为斧头巧妙地说服了树木:‘你们看,我的手柄是木头制成的,所以我跟你们是一伙的。’” https://www.haiwai.com/blog/p/2129695