1. joke
It's no joke.
A cracker contains a small toy, a paper hat and a piece of paper with a joke.
In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke which would make an Englishman laugh to tears.
You're probably going to think this is a joke, but I was a punk rocker when I was a kid.
The joke about the chicken crossing the road to get to the other side is an example of "anti-humor": meant to be funny because, on the surface, it is not.
What kind of jokes should be forbidden?
Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up.
In fact, there is a joke about passport photos: If you really look like the picture in your passport, you certainly need a vacation!
An Englishman, a Belgian and a Dutchman enter a pub and sit down at the counter. Says the barkeeper, "Wait a minute, is this a joke or what?"
Of course he thought it was a joke and let it slide with a "hm?" but he was seriously annoyed. I mean, just don't say things like that even as a joke!
Christopher Columbus once used the same joke 256 times in one day... thereby causing his entire crew to die of laughter.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.
If you repeat a joke two hundred fifty six times, it will set everybody's teeth on edge.
英语 单词“blague“(joke)出现在集合中:
Fiches du livre - "A Little Boy Lost" (W. H. Hudson)Fiches du livre - "Walking Shadows" (Alfred Noyes)Fiches du livre - "Mushrooms on the Moor" (Frank B...Fiches du livre - "Bert Wilson, Marathon Winner" (...Fiches du livre - "Stories by Foreign Authors: Rus...2. bunkum
英语 单词“blague“(bunkum)出现在集合中:
Fiches du livre - "Little Prudy’s Captain Horace" ...Fiches du livre - "The Librarian at Play" (Edmund ...Fiches du livre - "Lincoln in Caricature" (Rufus R...Fiches du livre - "The Nursery, October 1873, Vol....Fiches du livre - "Punch, or the London Charivari,...3. prank's
英语 单词“blague“(prank's)出现在集合中:
Fiches du livre - "Dream-Songs for the Belovèd" (E...Fiches du livre - "In A New World or, Among The Go...Fiches du livre - "The Letters of Jane Austen Sele...