After buying her kids a pet hamster, after they PROMISED they would take care of it, Mom, as usual, ended up with the responsibility.
One evening, exasperated, she asked them, "How many times do you think that hamster would have died if I hadn't looked after it?"
After a moment, her youngest son replied quizzically, "Once?"
It drives me nuts that so many people have abandoned basic English in their e-mailing and online messaging. Don't get me wrong. I am no master of the English language and I am not one of those grammar snobs who have given up being polite to people in the the zealous quest for the proper use of semi-colons. But I still like to have the odd period thrown into text communications to allow me to know when to stop one thought and begin another.
I am also a little leary about the shortening of words by removing letters in order to save time. For instance "im sry i dnt pss eng n sc so i tp ts wy" is far to vague to leave up to my imaginative mind (my guess would be "I'm sorry I didn't pass English in school so I type this way").
Again, I don't want to be fanatical about all of this. Sometimes taking letters from words can be fun. For instance, what 9 letter word in the English language continues to form another word each time you remove a letter from it? At least I think that's how the question goes - remember I'm no master in these things.
In my English-as-a-second-language class, I explained the difference between a watch and a clock.
I told the students that when it was a large timepiece on a wall and not attached to your body, it was called a clock and when it was worn on your body that it was called a watch.
A few days later we had a power outage, and our classroom clocks had not been reset.
I asked Luis, who was wearing a wristwatch, for the time.
Luis looked at his wrist, and then confidently announced,
"It is exactly ten o'watch."
Two men were chatting casually at work over the water cooler. The conversation turned to golf and one asked the other, "Do you play?"
"Yes, the younger man replied, "I used to, but I quit because I wasn't very good. I consistently shot in the lower seventies."
There was a long, low intake of breath, then the other man said, "Lower seventies, huh?"
"Yes," his coworker said.
"Consistently?"
"Yup, Every hole," the younger man said with a sigh.
My friend's husband always teases her about her lack of interest in household chores.
One day he came home with a gag gift, a refrigerator magnet that read: "Martha Stewart doesn't live here."
The next day he came home to find the magnet holding up a slip of paper.
The note read, "Neither does Bob Vila."
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