Viz Joke #4
“There’s a couple of things in the pipeline,” means that a few plans are in the process of being completed. It’s common in a business situation especially.
Category: Funny English
Viz Joke #3
Yet another “thing” joke. The expression “Things have been getting on top of me” means either “I’m stressed” or “I’m depressed”. It’s funny that the patient seems to look very happy about his situation!
Viz joke #2
Another “thing” joke… to “allow ‘this thing’ to come between us” is an expression meaning that a certain problem that exists has damaged the relationship between two certain people. So, someone may say “Don’t let this thing come between you …
Viz joke #1
Viz is a comic in the UK that specialises in simple wordplay jokes. They have a series of one-picture cartoon playing with the word “thing”. They are using it here to apply to something that cannot be named, and they …
Opposites?
This is a funny article first published in The New Yorker in 1994. It contains many words with missing prefixes (like “un”, “dis”, “in” etc.) in an attempt to make the opposite meanings. For example, if you cut the prefix …
Funny English – Ricky Gervais Joke
In one of his comedy dramas, Ricky’s character told a joke: Q – “What’s ET short for?” A – “He’s only got little legs.” Most people would assume “What’s ET short for?” means that ET is an abbreviation for what? …
Illogical English #21
The expression “opening times” is used on a shop display to give information to the customers for their times of business. However, the information show both opening and closing times. A more logical expression would be “open times” or “opening …