Jokes and Other Readings

These short sentences are funny but only if you understand some English. To students such and similar funny sentences may highly contribute to better understanding of English and to better undersanding of how American thinks.

Here they are


Driven to Distraction

- Only in America can a pizza guy get to your door faster than an ambulance.

- Why do slow-down and slow-up mean the same thing?

- Why are wise man and wise guy opposites?

- Why is it that when stuff goes on a truck it's called a shipment and on a boat it's called cargo?

- Why do we drive in a parkway and park in a driveway?

- Why do we press harder on things when we know the batteries are dead?