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「遠山顕のEnjoy!英語クロスワード」増刷です。発売１週間後でびっくりです！

笑うのが面倒な方へ　５　

話の舞台を日本に変えました。外国からの２人の旅行者が戯れに、とても長い名前の駅で降り、それをどう発音するかでもめて、ファミレスに入って質問するという内容。内容のないようなものに付き合ってられんという方は退場可。
Two foreign tourists get off the train for fun at a station with a very long name.
The sign says Hanatakayamasakago. They wonder how to pronounce it.
One says it’s HANatakaYAMasakago. The other says it’s HanaTAKayamaSAKago.
They stop at a family restaurant and a young girl takes their order. One says, “We need somebody local to settle an argument for us. Could you please pronounce where we are … very slowly?”
The girl leans over and says as distinctively as she can, “Deeehhh! Neeeeds!”

Denny’sのサーバーは英語がよくわかるようでご同慶の至り。

山桜へもうひとこと

細枝の　先の先まで　山桜

You ARE, you ARE
To the tip of a thin twee twig
A wild cherry tree, you are

笑うのが面倒な方へ　４

わざわざ写真を撮りにいくほどのものではありませんが・・・まそれが笑えるということは想像に難くないけれども・・・

A chicken asks a donkey, “Why aren’t you crossing the road?”
The donkey answers, “Look at what happened to the zebra.”

笑うのが面倒な方へ３

これは特に膝を叩くほどのジョークではないので無理に笑う必要はありません。

Knock-knock.
　Who’s there?
Michael.
　Michael who?
Michael-esterol is high these days.

Knock-knock.
　Who’s there?
Ammonia.
　Ammonia who?
♫Ammonia side, oh, when times get rough.

Knock-knock.
　Who’s there?
Absent-minded.
　Absent-minded who?
I’m sorry, what?

Knock-knock.
　Who’s there?
Harmony.
　Harmony who?
Harmony more knock-knock jokes do we had to do here?

笑うのが面倒な方へ 2

これはいかにもそのまんま感の強いジョークなので特に笑う必要はありません。

Q: Why is ten afraid of seven?
A: Because seven ate nine.

笑うのが面倒な方へ

これはそれほど面白いジョークでもないので無理に笑わなくて結構です。

A teacher asks his class to use the word “beans” in a sentence.
A girl says, “My father grows beans.”
A boy says, “My mother cooks beans.”
A third student says, “We are all human beans.”