Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

A contestant on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" had reached the final plateau. If she answered the next question correctly, she would win $1,000,000. If she answered incorrectly, she would pocket only the $32,000 milestone money.

As she suspected it would be, the million-dollar question was no pushover: Which of the following species of birds does not build its own nest, but instead lays [...] citește tot

Categoria: Texte in Engleza English
Pe site din data de: 16 Aprilie 2007
Nota 9.5 din 13 voturi

What goes around comes around

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.
There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death. [...] citește tot

Categoria: Texte in Engleza English
Pe site din data de: 28 Decembrie 2005
Nota 9.3 din 12 voturi

Newspaper Ad

The following is an ad that appeared four days in a row in a real-life newspaper -- the last three hopelessly trying to correct the first day's mistake.

MONDAY: For sale: R.D. Jones has one sewing machine for sale. Phone 948-0707 after 7 PM and ask for Mrs. Kelly who lives with him cheap.

TUESDAY Notice: We regret having erred in R.D. Jones' ad yesterday. It should have read [...] citește tot

Categoria: Texte in Engleza English
Pe site din data de: 12 Aprilie 2007
Nota 9.3 din 13 voturi

How To Cook an Egg with Mobile Phones

This article claims (incorrectly, see below, at the end of the article) to provide instructions for cooking an egg by placing it between two live mobile phones.

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It takes approximately 2 minutes of speaking on a cellular phone for the radiation to cross the protective Blood Brain Barrier. So when ever there is a land line available use it in preference to [...] citește tot

Categoria: Texte in Engleza English
Pe site din data de: 14 Iulie 2006
Nota 9.3 din 10 voturi

Donkey in a Well

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.

Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, so it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into [...] citește tot

Categoria: Texte in Engleza English
Pe site din data de: 17 Aprilie 2007
Nota 9.3 din 11 voturi

The leisure party manifesto

A specter is haunting the world - the specter of leisure. All the great powers have conspired against it: Popes and presidents, bankers and unionists, hamburger chains and environmentalists. But, mighty as they are, they will soon fail. Machines may exist solely to produce, but humans are awakening from a dark eon of drudgery to the dawning realization that there is more to life than work. [...] citește tot

Categoria: Texte in Engleza English
Pe site din data de: 17 August 2006
Nota 9.3 din 12 voturi : : Comentarii: 1

ATM Procedures - Male vs. Female

A new sign in the Bank Lobby reads: "Please note this Bank is installing new Drive-through ATM machines enabling customers to withdraw cash without leaving their vehicles.

Customers are requested to use the procedures outlined below when accessing their accounts.

After months of careful research, MALE & FEMALE Procedures have been developed.
Please follow the Appropriate [...] citește tot

Categoria: Texte in Engleza English
Pe site din data de: 4 Mai 2007
Nota 9.2 din 13 voturi

Funny letter of a blonde mother to her son

Dear Son:

Just a few lines to let you know that I'm still alive. I'm writing this letter slowly because I know that you cannot read fast. You won't know the house when you come home, we've moved.

About your father... He has a lovely new job. He has 500 men under him. He is cutting the grass at the cemetery.

There was a washing machine in the new house when we moved in, [...] citește tot

Categoria: Texte in Engleza English
Pe site din data de: 3 Iunie 2011
Nota 9.1 din 28 voturi : : Comentarii: 1

Closer

1. Dodging Arrows

Does it ever upset you when a partner expresses anger or hurt feelings? It's important to realize that when someone expresses their feelings, they are not necessarily rational.

They do not necessarily mean anything they say. They are, in fact, letting emotional energy release, like flying arrows. If you stand in their way - by doing anything other than just [...] citește tot

Categoria: Texte in Engleza English
Pe site din data de: 8 Aprilie 2006
Nota 9.1 din 9 voturi

Elephant's memory (truly moving story)

In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.

The elephant seemed distressed, so Mbembe approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. [...] citește tot

Categoria: Texte in Engleza English
Pe site din data de: 9 Iunie 2007
Nota 9.0 din 13 voturi