[Culturechat] swiss humor from a beginner

[Vance Roy]

>

Some Swiss humor from Barbara's English class students. See if you can 
get the humor out of them.


> A man forgot to buy turkey for Thanksgiving
>
> It's the day before Thanksgiving, and the butcher is just locking up 
> when
> a man begins pounding (stampfen) on the front door.
> "Please let me in," says the man desperately (hoffnungslos). "I forgot 
> to
> buy a turkey, and my wife will kill me if I don't come home with one."
> "Okay," says the butcher. "Let me see what I have left." He goes into 
> the
> freezer and discovers (entdeckte)  that there's only one scrawny 
> (dürrer)
> turkey left. He brings it out to show the man.
> "That's one is too skinny (zu dünn). What else you got?" says the man.
> The butcher takes the bird back into the freezer and waits a few 
> minutes
> and brings the same turkey back out to the man.
> "Oh, no," says the man, "That one doesn't look any better. You better 
> give
> me both of them!"
>
>
> Shopping
>
> Mrs. McDougal was shopping at a produce stand in her neighborhood. She 
> approached
> the vendor and asked, "How much are these oranges?"
> "Two for a quarter," answered the vendor.
> "How much is just one?" she asked.
> "Fifteen cents," answered the vendor.
> "Then I'll take the other one," said Mrs. McDougal.
>

Vance Roy
gigli.saw@dplanet.ch
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