Re: Jennifer Saunders Fan Club -2-

MurielB Jeu 28 Sep - 22:52

Did you know the three words/expressions?

No, i don't know the expression. I had a look on the internet
backbone=>colonne vertébrale
funny bone=>"petit juif" which is not a bone but a nerve

gerardM Jeu 28 Sep - 23:19

There was more than visible at first sight.
Puns had to be suspected because the 3 examples "dream - stand - laugh" were weird.
We had to search for explanations; the text was "richer" and needed a thorough reading.

With English texts, we've often to suspect puns.

MurielB Jeu 28 Sep - 23:25

Yes we need to be aware of the puns

gerardM Mar 3 Oct - 14:04

gerardM Mar 3 Oct - 14:22

MurielB Mer 4 Oct - 9:56

Ah! ah! ah! I am the dummy who got caught !

gerardM Ven 6 Oct - 20:35

MurielB Sam 7 Oct - 10:14

Excellent way of losing weight!

gerardM Sam 7 Oct - 15:01

gerardM Sam 7 Oct - 17:43

Johnny had long heard the stories of an amazing 21st Birthday family tradition.
His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 21st birthday.
On that special day, they’d each walked across the lake to the bar on the far side for their first legal drink.
So when Johnny‘s 21st birthday came around, he and his friend Jill took a boat out to the middle of the lake, Johnny stepped out of the boat, and nearly drowned!
Jill just barely managed to pull him to safety.
Furious and confused, Johnny went to see his grandmother.
“Grandma,” he said, ‘it’s my 21st birthday, so why can’t I walk across the lake like my father, his father, and his father before him?”
Granny looked deeply into Johnny‘s troubled eyes and answered,
“Because your father, your grandfather, and your great-grandfather were born in January, when the lake is frozen, and you were born in July.

LOLOLOL
I find this one excellent and keep it for the Roundtable that comes.

Kevin, our Ozzie member, states that telling a joke each meeting is a good way to learn English...

gerardM Sam 7 Oct - 17:47

A hillbilly family took a vacation to New York City.
One day, the father took his son into a large building. They were amazed by everything they saw, especially the elevator at one end of the lobby.
The boy asked, "What's this, Paw?"
The father responded, "Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life. I don't know what it is!"
While the boy and his father were watching in wide-eyed astonishment, an old lady in a wheelchair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button.
The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room.
The walls closed and the boy and his father watched small circles of lights above the walls light up.
They continued to watch the circles light up in the reverse direction.
The walls opened again, and a voluptuous twenty-four-year old woman stepped out.
The father turned to his son and said, "Go get your maw!"

gerardM Sam 7 Oct - 17:48

A couple go for a meal at a Chinese restaurant and order the "Chicken Surprise". The waiter brings the meal, served in a lidded cast iron pot.
Just as the wife is about to serve herself, the lid of the pot rises slightly and she briefly sees two beady little eyes looking around before the lid slams back down.
"Good grief, did you see that?" she asks her husband. He hadn’t, so she asks him to look in the pot. He reaches for it and again the lid rises, and he sees two little eyes looking around before it slams down..
Rather perturbed, he calls the waiter over, explains what is happening, and demands an explanation.
"Please sir," says the waiter, "what you order?"
The husband replies, "Chicken Surprise."
"Ah! So sorry," says the waiter, "I bring you Peeking Duck."

MurielB Sam 7 Oct - 22:05

gerardM a écrit:
A hillbilly family took a vacation to New York City.
One day, the father took his son into a large building. They were amazed by everything they saw, especially the elevator at one end of the lobby.
The boy asked, "What's this, Paw?"
The father responded, "Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life. I don't know what it is!"
While the boy and his father were watching in wide-eyed astonishment, an old lady in a wheelchair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button.
The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room.
The walls closed and the boy and his father watched small circles of lights above the walls light up.
They continued to watch the circles light up in the reverse direction.
The walls opened again, and a voluptuous twenty-four-year old woman stepped out.
The father turned to his son and said, "Go get your maw!"

Magic!

gerardM Dim 8 Oct - 12:37

A teacher is teaching a class and she sees that Johnny isn't paying attention, so she asks him, "If there are three ducks sitting on a fence, and you shoot one, how many are left?"
Johnny says, "None."
The teacher asks, "Why?"
Johnny says, "Because the shot scared them all off."
The teacher says, "No, two, but I like how you're thinking."
Johnny asks the teacher, "If you see three women walking out of an ice cream parlor, one is licking her ice cream, one is sucking her ice cream, and one is biting her ice cream, which one is married?"
The teacher says, "The one sucking her ice cream."
Johnny says, "No, the one with the wedding ring, but I like how you're thinking!"