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7) Medically examined
A young man was called up
for military service and had to go to a medical examination. When he entered
the doctor was sitting at a desk. He said to the man: "Take off your
coat and shirt, loosen your belt and sit on this chair!" The young man did
this. The doctor looked at him for a moment without getting up from his chair
and then said, "All right, get dressed again!" "But you didn't
examine me at all," said the young man in a worried voice. "It is
not necessary," said the doctor softly. "When I told you to take
off your coat and shirt, you heard me well. So you are not deaf. You saw the
chair I pointed at, so your eyesight is good enough for the army. You managed
to undress and sit on the chair, so your body has to be healthy and you
understood what I told you and you did it without mistakes, so you have to be
smart enough for the army."
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6) And
Can you imagine a
sentence in which the word “and” occurs five times without any words in
between? There is one at the end of this story. There was once an inn called
"The Horse and the Cart". Outside was a sign with a picture of a
horse carriage. But the sign had got very old. So the owner of the inn
decided to have a new one made. He went to a painter and asked him to paint
one and write "HORSE AND CART" in large letters on it. A few days
later, he went to see how the painter was getting on. He liked the picture of
the horse and the carriage very much, but he didn't like the writing at all.
He said to the painter: "No, no, there is too much space between"
horse "and" and "and" and "and" cart ".
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5) The barrel
Some villagers wanted to
celebrate an important wine festival within a few days. So they borrowed a
huge barrel from the nearest town, put it on the village square and decided
that each of them should empty a bottle of the best wine he had into it so
that there would be plenty of it at the festival. One of the villagers
thought he was very smart: "If I pour a bottle of water instead of wine
into the barrel, nobody will notice it," he said to himself,
"because there will be so much excellent wine in the barrel that the
water will disappear in it." The evening of the festival came and
everyone gathered in the village square with their jugs and glasses for wine.
The tap on the barrel was opened, but what came out was pure water. Everyone
in the village had had the same idea.
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4) The proof
A young lady spending her
vacation in Bath went to a bank to withdraw some money that had
been sent to her from the city in which she lived. The employee at the bank
in Bath did not know her and said: "How can you prove that you really
are the person who is supposed to receive this money?" The young lady
looked worried for a few moments and replied, "I don't think I brought
any proof with me." But then suddenly, she looked happy again. She
opened her bag, took out a photography of herself, and showed it to the
clerk. "Here's something," she said. The clerk looked closely at
the photo and then again at the young lady. "Yes, that’s you," he
said, and paid the money out to her without further difficulty.
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3) So far back already
A great battle was taking
place during the First World War. Rifles fired and grenades and bullets were
flying around all over the place. After an hour of that, one of the soldiers
decided that the fighting was getting too dangerous for him. So he left the front
and started to move away from the battle. After an hour's walk, he saw an
officer coming towards him. The man stopped him and said, "where are you
going?" "I'm trying to get as far away as possible from the battle,
which is going on behind us, sir," replied the soldier. "Do you
know who I am?" the officer said angrily to him, "I am your
commanding officer." The soldier was very surprised to hear that and
replied, "My God, I didn't realize I’ve got back that far already."
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2) The old librarian
A young man hurried into
his city library. He went to one of the old librarians and eagerly said to
her, "do you remember that you persuaded me to borrow a book about Roman
history a week ago?" "Yes, that's right," replied the librarian.
"Do you remember the name of the book?" asked the young man. The
librarian was very proud because she always tried to persuade young people to
borrow books about Roman history, and she rarely found anyone willing to
accept her suggestions. "Yes," she replied, "do you want to
read it again? Did you find it so interesting?" "No, of course
not," said the young man, "but when I was taking it home, I met a
girl on the bus and wrote her phone number in the book. I want to call her.
May I look at the book again?"
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