14-09-10 One day a farmer bought four donkeys in the marketplace in the village. He got on one of them and began to ride home. As he was riding along, he noticed that there were only three donkeys walking in front of him. I wonder what happened. He was forge...

14-09-05 That such a family, thus cursorily presented, might have a different and somewhat peculiar history could well beanticipated, and it would be true. Indeed, this one presented one of those anomalies of psychic and social reflexand motivation such as w...

14-08-25 Joe Schmidt, although very wealthy, was a tightwad. One day he and his wife wanted to take a spin in an airplane over the city of New York. The pilot said it would be 10 dollars a piece for a thirty-minute flight. How about 10 dollars for both of us...

14-08-25 One day a man came home from work to find total chaos in the house. The kids were laying outside in the mud, still in their pajamas. When he opened the door, he found an even bigger mess: dishes on the counter, dog food spilled on the floor, a broke...

14-08-25 Andy's wife, refusing to give in to the looks of growing old, goes out and buys a new line of expensive cosmetics（化妆品） guaranteed to make her look years younger. After a lengthy sitting before the mirror applying the miracle products, she asks...

14-08-21 An old man goes to the wizard to ask him if he can remove a curse he has been living with for the last 40 years. The wizard says, Maybe, but you will have to tell me the exact words that were used to put the curse on you. The old man says without he...

14-08-21 An Illinois man left the snowballed streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail. Unable to find...

14-08-13 A man fell ill. His wife called a doctor in for him. While the doctor was looking over the man, his wife kept fussing（烦躁，发牢骚） and jabbering（快而含糊地说） all the time. The doctor told her: Your husband must get absolute rest and quiet. The...

14-08-07 I am now going to begin my story (said the old man), so please attend. This hind that you see with me is my wife. We have no children of our own, therefore I adopted the son of a favorite slave, and determined to make him my heir. My wife, however,...

14-08-07 Sire, there was once upon a time a fisherman so old and so poor that he could scarcely manage to support his wife and three children. He went every day to fish very early, and each day he made a rule not to throw his nets more than four times. He st...