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Staff in our editorial office have begun working around the clock. That way everyone can see when it's time to go home. 
Sign seen in Hong Kong
restaurant
: "The water used in all our soups has been passed by the chef personally."
What do diapers and politicians have in common? Both should be changed regularly and for similar reasons.
"Is there anything on four legs the Chinese won't eat?"  
    "The dinner table!"
"So the boss promised you a nice round figure for this year's bonus?"  
    "Yeah. Zero!"
"Excuse me, are you the landlord?"
   "Yes?"
"Could we have a word?"
   "Yes?"
"It's about our roof."
   "Yes?"
"We'd like one."
They say the best cure for water on the brain is a tap on the head.
A couple are having a heated argument. 
Says she: "I was a fool when I married you!"
   "I know," says he. "But I was blindly in love and never really noticed!"

A young woman is beginning to doubt her boyfriend's sincerity:
" Jason, there are times when I think you only want me for my body!"
  "Now don't be silly,  
Daphne. You know I've  
always seen you as a 
whole."
  "A what? That's utterly despicable!" 

Two golfers are
at the first tee
:

  "Hey, guess what! 
I got a set of golf clubs for my wife!"
  "Wow....great trade!!!!"

 A couple are bickering about their finances:
  "You do realize," the husband begins, "that if it weren't for my money the house wouldn't be here!"
  "And if it weren't for
your money," the wife responds, "nor would I!"
  "Do you own a pocket calculator?"
  "No, never needed one. Always known how many 
pockets I've got!"
  "I used to believe I was a really great lover. 
Then I found out all my girlfriends had asthm
a."
An honest assessment?
  "Teacher, I really don't think I deserve a zero on this test!"
  "I agree, but it's the lowest score I can give."
 "Hi, Dave! How's the new job going?"
  "Oh, like a breeze compared to the old one. In fact, I get most of my work done on the train."
  "That's amazing! 
Who are you with?"
  " Amtrak."
America is a country that will cross the ocean to fight for democracy... but won't cross the street to vote.
I still miss my ex... but my aim is getting better!
Ever had a nightmare like the one I had last night? I dreamt I was forced to eat up this huge great white wobbly marshmallow — all by myself!! Well, I woke up in a terrible sweat and  
— can you believe it? — some swine had swiped my pillow! 
  "Waiter, the food in this restaurant is simply dreadful. I demand to speak to the manager!"
  "I'm very sorry, sir. 
He's out to lunch!"
A man was in court charged with parking his car in a restricted area. The judge asked him if he had anything to say in his defense.
   "Indeed I do, your honor. The sign said: 'Fine if you park here', so that's precisely what I did."
 "Doctor, Doctor, you've got to help me — I just can't stop my hands shaking!"
  "Do you drink a lot?"
  "Not really — I spill most of it!"
Colonel Sanders was really no different to your typical average male. All he could think about was legs, breasts and thighs.
English traffic cop to a drink-driving suspect:
  "Excuse me, sir. Is this vehicle licensed?"
  "It most certainly is, officer. What are you having?"
 "Now Jimmy, if you had one dollar and you asked your dad for another, how many dollars would you have?"
  "One dollar."
  "You don't know your math."
  "And you don't know my father!"
If your nose runs and your feet smell, you must have been born upside down. 
"So what's it like 
being married to an archeologist?"
   "Oh, it's great. 
The older I become, 
the more interest he shows in me!"
There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't.
"So what did you get your mother-in-law for Christmas?"
   "A new chair — but I'm still waiting for her to plug it in."

A psychiatrist's secretary walks into his office and says, "That Mr. Black is back in the waiting room asking to meet you again. This time he claims he's invisible!"  
The psychiatrist is quick to respond: "Tell him I can't see him."

Q: Why do brides always dress in white?
A: Because the husband wants the dishwasher to match the stove and the refrigerator.
 "What's it like to be kissed by a vampire?"
 "A pain in the neck!"
An ageing businessman
is making small talk with his 21-year-old girlfriend:   
  "Tricia, my dear, what on earth can a beautiful young girl like you possibly see in an old fuddy-duddy like me?"
  "Don't be so silly, George. You know how I love your company! 
— Er, it is still making money, isn't it?"
Overheard in a department store
"This dress is ever so stylish, don't you think, sir?  I mean, haven't you ever wanted to see your wife in something long and flowing?"
  "Yes. A river!"
Wasn't sure where to head for on vacation, so I asked a pal of mine. "You should go to Cape Cod," he suggested, "Cape Cod's great for rheumatism." 
So I went there
— and I caught it!
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 now and none of us knows where the hell she is!
 "Barber, how much do you want for a haircut?"
  "25 dollars, sir."
  "And what about a shave?"
  "That'll be 10 dollars."
  "OK, shave my head!"
 "Waiter, what is this I'm eating?"
  "It's bean soup, sir!"
  "I don't want to know what it's been, I want to know what it is!"
I had the weirdest of dreams last night...
I dreamt I was awake. And guess what, when I woke up...I WAS!
An irate boss to a careless worker:
 
"Tell me, Smith, how is it possible for one single person to make so many stupid mistakes in one single day?"
  "Oh I get up early, sir."
"Waiter, is that your handkerchief you're using to hold my soup bowl?"
  "No need to worry, sir. It needed washing anyway."
 "A friend of mine has a P.O. box as an address." 
 "Well, I guess if I spent my whole life in a box then I'd be P.O. too!"
Why pay $2 to have a shirt cleaned when you can donate it to the Salvation Army? They'll clean it, put in on a hanger and next morning you can buy it back for 75 cents!
I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose-fitting clothing. Well, I mean if I had any loose-fitting clothing, I wouldn't have gone there in the first place!


English Humor Gallery

 
 
 
Here's how to get a good night's rest and much-needed exercise 
at the same time!
"George, darling, what is it about me you
find so attractive? Is it my personality?"
     "No."
"Is it my figure?"
     "No."
"Is it my charisma?"
     "No."
"I give in."
     "That's it!"
"Hey, guess what — the mother-in-law's gone missing!"

"No kidding? Have you given her description to the police?"

"They'd never believe me!"

A priest on his way to church on Sunday morning passes one of his non-churchgoing male parishioners hard at work on his garden. Unable to resist the temptation to put the man's efforts into some kind of divine perspective on the Sabbath, he says: "Good morning, Mr. Jones! What a magnificent job you and the good Lord have been doing on this garden."

 

The man looks up, smiles and says: "That's very kind of you, father. But you should have seen what it looked like when the good Lord had it to himself!"


"Last year I contracted an extremely rare tropical disease."

"You mean like the chikungunya virus?"

"No... frostbite."   


Do two people who don't know what they're talking about know more or less than one person who doesn't know what he's talking about?

A man on a bus spends much of the journey staring at the guy sitting opposite. Before long the other guy starts staring back and demands to know why he is the focus of so much attention.

"I'm very sorry," begins the first man, "but if it weren't for the moustache you'd look just like my wife!"

"But I don't have any moustache!" protests the other.

"See what I mean?" he replies.

A father-to-be gets into a panic when his wife suddenly goes into labor. He calls up the local hospital and appeals for immediate help: “Er...this is an emergency…we need an ambulance right away...the contractions keep coming every two minutes!”

“Is this her first child?” enquires the nurse.

“No, it’s her husband, you idiot!”

A hospital patient wakes up after an operation to see a whole bunch of grim-looking medical staff staring down at him. 

 

At the other end of the bed, equally grim-faced, stands the surgeon who performed the operation. He looks young and inexperienced. 

 

"OK, tell me the worst, Doc. Am I going to pull through?"
the patient demands to know.


"Well, I have some bad news....and I have some good news," the surgeon begins.

 

"Well, t-t-tell me the bad news first," the patient responds in a state of confusion.

 

"We appear to have amputated the wrong leg."

 

"Oh, my God, no, no....you haven't?!"

 

"Yes, I'm afraid so. But cheer up now and let's look on the bright side. The good news is that we won't have to amputate the other leg after all."

You simply won't get better...

"For headaches, feverishness, sore throats and other symptoms of colds or flu, absolutely nothing acts faster than Panadin Plus!"

 

 

 

"So it's absolutely
nothing for me!"


 
 


A mother's advice to her daughter
about choosing the right man
:

  1. You need a man who has a good job and is a good provider.

  2. You need a man who worships you and treats you like a princess.

  3. You need a man who can make you laugh.

  4. You need a man who can satisfy you physically.

  5. You need to make absolutely sure that these four men never meet!

Yesterday my girlfriend took me to meet her parents for the very first time. Somehow I don't think I made a very good impression. 

After eying me up and down, the father challenged me: "Tell me, young man, are your intentions toward our daughter honorable or dishonorable?" 

"You mean I have a choice?" I replied.

"No, of course not," he went on, "but it is important you understand our daughter is well reared."

I assured him there wasn't much wrong with her front half either!

 

According to a radio report, a middle school in Oregon was faced with a unique problem. A number of girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirrors, leaving dozens of tiny lip prints.

Finally the principal decided that something had to be done about it. She called all the girls to the bathroom for a meeting with the janitor, whose job it was to clean the mirrors every day. To demonstrate just how arduous this task had become, she asked him to clean one of the mirrors in front of them. He proceeded to take out a long-handled brush, dip it into the nearest toilet and scrub the mirror from top to bottom.

Since that day there have been no further lip prints on the mirror.

A wealthy businessman was walking down the street when he was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked him for a couple of dollars for dinner. The businessman took out his wallet, extracted two dollars and asked, "If I gave you this money, would you buy some Budweiser with it instead?"

"No, of course not. I had to stop drinking years ago," the homeless man replied.

"Would you use it to gamble with instead of buying food?" 

"No, I never gamble" the homeless man said. "I need everything I can get just to stay alive."

"Would you spend the money on greens fees at a golf course instead of food?" 

"Are you NUTS!" replied the homeless man. "I haven't played golf in 20 years!"

"Well," continued the businessman, "I've decided not to give you the two dollars after all. Instead, I'm going to take you home for a terrific dinner cooked by my wife."

The homeless man was astounded. "Won't your wife be furious with you for doing that? I know I'm pretty dirty, and I probably smell bad too."

"Don't worry about that," replied the businessman. I just want her to see what a man looks like who's given up Budweiser, gambling and golf."

It's shortly after three o'clock in the morning. Far, far from home a dog-tired driver decides to stop by the roadside for a couple of hours' sleep at the wheel of his car. He drops off almost the moment he closes his eyes, but is soon awoken by a man tapping on the window. "I say, you don't happen to  know the time, do you?" the stranger asks. 

"It's gone three o'clock," the dazed driver replies. He winds up his window and soon falls back into a deep slumber. 

Half-an-hour later another individual knocks on his window, also demanding to know the time. The driver once again gathers his thoughts and responds that it's just after three-thirty. 

When the same thing happens yet again, the now increasingly irate, sleep-deprived driver raises his voice at the passer-by: "It's four o'clock, for Pete's sake! Why can't you get yourself a decent watch like the rest of us?" 

This time when he winds up the window, he is determined not to be disturbed by anybody anymore for any reason for the rest of the night. Hurriedly he pencils a note with the words "I DON'T KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS!". He attaches it to the windshield and drifts off back to sleep again. Not long afterwards the note is spotted by a helpful police officer. He knocks on the man's window to inform him it's five past four.

 

Waiting there in the garden, she saw him running toward her.

"Jenny! My flower!"

He'd uttered those magic words at last..."Oh, Jack!"

"Jenny, my flower!"

"Oh, Jack! Jack, I love you too!"

Jack finally reached her, knelt down and shoved her out of the way. "My flower! You were standing on my prize-winning rose!"

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson have pitched a tent while on a camping expedition. 

In the middle of the night Holmes nudges Watson to question him.

HOLMES: "Watson, look up at the stars and tell me what you deduce."

WATSON: "I see millions of stars, and if there are millions of stars, and if even a few of those have planets, it is quite likely there are some planets like the Earth, and if there are a few planets like the Earth out there, then there might also be life, and if..."

HOLMES: "Watson, you idiot! Someone stole our tent."

A truck driver stopped at a roadside diner for lunch and ordered a cheeseburger, a cup of coffee and a slice of apple pie. As he was about to eat, three motorcycles pulled up outside. 

The three bikers came in, seemingly bored and just looking for trouble.
One of them grabbed the trucker's cheeseburger out of his hand and took a huge bite from it, the second one took a swig of the trucker's coffee and the third one wolfed down his apple pie. The truck driver didn't say a word, merely got up, paid the cashier and left.

As soon as he was gone, the bikers started to snicker to one another and congratulate each other on just how "bad" they'd all been. When the waiter finally walked up to them, one of the bikers growled, "He sure wasn't much of a man now was he?"

"He sure isn't much of a driver either," the waiter replied. "Seems he just backed his 18-wheeler over three
Harley-Davidsons!"

An American businessman goes to Japan on a business trip. He doesn't like Japanese food very much, so he asks the concierge at his hotel if there's any place to get something western style.

The concierge tells him he's in luck, there's a pizza place that just opened, and they deliver. The concierge gives the businessman the phone number, and he goes back to his room and orders a pizza. Thirty minutes later, the delivery guy shows up at the door with the pizza.

The businessman takes the pizza and immediately starts sneezing uncontrollably. He asks the deliveryman, "What the heck did you put on this pizza?"

The deliveryman bows deeply and says, "We put on pizza what customer ordered: 'pepper only'."

Two women sitting in the same compartment of an older train were locked in a heated argument over the window. One of them wanted it up and the other wanted it down. 

In the end the conductor was called in to settle the dispute. Said one: "If the window is up, I won't be able to breathe. I'll suffocate." Said the other: "If the window is down, I'll catch my death of cold." Understandably, the conductor was perplexed.

"Well now, I think the pair of them should be willing to compromise," suggested a businessman who had been forced to spend the entire journey standing up. "Why don't we first have the window up and suffocate No. 1, and then have it down to kill off No. 2? And after that perhaps we'll all get some peace and quiet!"

A man walks into a bar, sits down and orders a drink. It's mid-afternoon and, apart from the bartender, he has the place pretty much to himself. All of a sudden he hears a soothing voice that says, "Nice suit!" He turns round but there's no one there, and the bartender looks busy cleaning some glasses. A short while later the same soft voice says, "Nice tie!" The man looks round once more and still he doesn't see anyone. Then, when he takes out his mobile to call his boss, the mysterious voice is there again: "Nice phone!" Puzzled and perplexed he turns to the bartender to ask if he'd just said something.

"No," replied the bartender, "it wasn't me. 
Perhaps it was the peanuts. They're complimentary."

An American touring Spain stopped at a local restaurant following a day of sightseeing. While sipping his sangria, he noticed a sizzling, scrumptious-looking platter being served at the next table.

He asked the waiter: "What is that you just served?"

The waiter replied: "Ah señor, you have excellent taste! Those are the bull's testicles from the bull fight this morning. A delicacy!"

The American, though momentarily daunted, said: "What the hell, I am on vacation. Bring me an order!"

The waiter replied:
 "I am a-sorry, señor. There is only one serving per day because there is only one bull fight each morning. If you come early tomorrow and place your order, we will be sure to save for you this remarkable delicacy!"

The next morning, the American returned, placed his order, and then that evening he was served the one and only special delicacy of the day.

After a few bites, and inspecting the contents of his platter, he called to the waiter and said: "These are delicious, but they are much, much smaller than the ones I saw you serve yesterday!"

The waiter shrugged his shoulders and replied: "Si señor. Sometimes the bull wins, you know." 

A highly successful businessman had a meeting with his new son-in-law. "I love my daughter, and now I welcome you into the family," said the man. "To show you how much we care for you, I'm making you a 50/50 partner in my business. All you have to do is go to the factory every day and learn the operations." 

 

The son-in-law interrupted him: "I'm afraid I hate factories and I can't stand noise." 

 

"I see," replied the father-in-law. "Well then, in that case you'll just have to work in the office and take charge of some of the operations." 
 

"I hate office work too," said the young man. "I've never been able to put up with being stuck behind a desk all day." 

 

"Now wait a minute," said the father-in-law. "I just made you half-owner of a money-making enterprise. Now you tell me you don't like factories and you don't want to work in an office. What am I supposed to do with you?" 

 

"That's easy," replied the young man. "Just buy me out!"

 

Sign outside a popular delicatessen

"Ou
r tasty tongue sandwiches
speak for themselves!"

A London police officer apprehends a cycling priest for letting go of the handlebars so he could pray while on the move: "I hate to do this, reverend, but I'm going to have to fine you five pounds for cycling without due care on a public highway."

"Oh golly Moses! 
I assure you there was no real danger, officer. Did you not notice how the guiding hand of the good Lord was steering me in and out of the traffic?"

"I can't say I did, sir. But since you come to mention it, that'll be another five pounds for carrying a passenger."

It's 3 o'clock in the morning and a couple are fast asleep when suddenly the phone rings. Half dazed and thoroughly annoyed, the husband picks up the phone and says, "Hello? What?.......Well, how the devil do I know? I'm not the blasted weatherman, now am I?" ...and he promptly slams the receiver down — so hard that he breaks it.

His wife rolls over and asks, "Who was that, honey?"

The husband replies, "I don't know, just some guy who wanted to know if the coast was clear."

 

 

 

 

"Waiter, are those eggs   
 fresh?"

"I wouldn't know, sir. 
 I only lay the tables!"

Two attorneys walked into a diner and ordered two drinks. Then they produced sandwiches from their briefcases and started to eat. The owner became quite concerned and marched over and told them, "You can't eat your own food in here!" The attorneys looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders and promptly exchanged sandwiches.
A husband, wishing to prove to his wife that women talk more than men, showed her a study which indicated that men use on the average only 15,000 words a day, while women use 30,000. 

She thought about this for a while and then told her husband that women use twice as many words as men because they have to repeat everything they say.

"What?" he replied.
Last Saturday I was passing the Army & Navy Surplus Stores and decided to drop in and take a look around. 

After four or five minutes I went up to the man at the counter: "Great selection, but where are your camouflage jackets?"

"Aren't they awesome?" he replied.
 

 

There was once a preacher who was an avid golfer. Every chance he could get, he could be found on the golf course swinging away. It was a complete and utter obsession.

 

One Sunday it was an absolutely perfect day for golfing. The sun was out, there was no  wind, there were no clouds in the sky and the temperature was just right. The preacher was in a quandary as to what to do and finally the urge to play golf overcame him. He called an assistant to tell him he was too sick to take the Sunday service, he loaded up the car and drove three hours to a golf course where no one would recognize him. Without a care in the world he began to play the course.

 

An angel up above was watching the preacher and was quite perturbed. He went to the Lord and said, "Look at that preacher. I think he should be punished for what he is doing." The Lord nodded in agreement.

 

The preacher teed up on the first hole. He swung at the ball, and it sailed effortlessly through the air and landed right in the cup three hundred and fifty yards away. A picture-perfect hole-in-one. He was amazed and excited.

 

The angel was a little shocked. He turned to the Lord and said, "Begging Your pardon, but I thought you were going to punish him."

 

The Lord smiled. "Think about it — who can he tell?" 

A man and a woman get into a car accident, and it's a bad one. Both cars are totally demolished, but amazingly neither of them is hurt. After they crawl out of their cars, the woman says: "So you're a man and I'm a woman — that's highly significant. And just look at our cars...there's nothing left of them! But the remarkable thing is that neither of us is hurt. This must surely be a sign from God that we were intended to meet and be friends and live together in peace for the rest of our days."

The man replies, "I agree with you entirely — this must indeed be a sign from the good Lord!"

"And look at this," the woman continues, "here's another miracle. My car is completely demolished and yet this bottle of wine didn't break. Surely God wants us to drink this wine to celebrate our good fortune, doesn't he?" She hands the bottle to the man. Eagerly nodding his head in agreement, he opens it and takes a few large swigs before handing it back to the woman. To his surprise she immediately puts the cap back on the bottle and returns it to him.

"Well, aren't you having any?" he asks disappointedly.

"No," she replies. "I think I'll just sit here and wait for the police!"

 

"Do please forgive my friend's behavior. 
His wife left him last week.."

 

  "Oh, I am sorry to hear that..."

 

"...and today she came back again!"

JAPANESE BANKING NEWS

Following last week's news that Origami Bank had folded, we are hearing that Sumo Bank has gone belly-up and that Bonsai Bank plans to cut back some of its branches. Karaoke Bank is up for sale and is (you've guessed it!) going for a song. Meanwhile, 500 staff at Karate Bank got the chop. Analysts report that there is something fishy going on at Sushi Bank, with staff there fearing they may get a raw deal.
 
 
Sign on a restaurant wall
 

"If you think our waitresses are rude, you should see the manager!"

Nation's #1 Job Creator?
The tobacco industry reports that it provides jobs for 57,000 Americans. This does not include physicians, X-ray technicians, nurses, hospital employees, firefighters, dry cleaners, respiratory specialists, pharmacists, morticians, gravediggers, and a whole host of others.

 


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