all of sudden
to be in no mood for sth
Section 51
I don't want to go
Thanksgiving Day was approaching and the family had received a Thanksgiving card with a painting of a pilgrim family on their way to church. Grandma showed the card to her small grandchildren, observing, «The Pilgrim children liked to go to church with their mothers and fathers.»
«Oh yeah?» her young grandson replied. «So why is their dad carrying that rifle?»
pilgrim
паломник, пилигрим;to observe
замечать, отмечатьrifle
ружьеThanksgiving Day
День БлагодаренияSection 52
On thanksgivingday
bare
голыйbead
капляsweat
потneck
шеяbreast
грудьto drool
thigh
бедроslit
щельhole
отверстиеinside
внутрь; внутриmurky
сумрачный, сумеречныйto stretch
протягивать, вытягиватьto stuff
набивать;turkey
индейкаSection 53
One thanksgiving morning
There was an old married couple that had lived happily together for nearly forty years. The only friction in their marriage was caused by the husband's habit of breaking wind nearly every morning as he awoke.
The noise would always wake up his wife and the smell would cause her eyes to water as she would choke and gasp for air. Nearly every morning she would plead with him to stop ripping such nasty farts.
He told her that he couldn't help it.
She begged him to see a doctor to see if anything could be done, but the husband wouldn't hear of it. He told her that it was just a natural bodily function and then he would laugh in her face as she tried to wave the fumes away with her hands. She told him that there was nothing natural about it and if he didn't stop, he was one day going to «fart his guts out.»
The years went by and the wife continued to suffer and the husband continued to ignore her warnings about «farting his guts out» until one Thanksgiving morning.
Before dawn, the wife went downstairs to prepare the family feast. She fixed pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, gravy and of course a turkey. While she was taking out the turkey's innards, a thought occurred to the wife as to how she might solve her husband's problem.
With a devilish grin on her face, she placed the turkey guts into a bowl and quietly walked upstairs hours before her flatulent husband would awake. While he was still soundly asleep, she pulled back the covers and then gently pulled back her husband's shorts. She then placed all of the turkey guts into her husband's underwear, pulled them up, replaced the covers and tiptoed back downstairs to finish preparing the family meal.
Several hours later she heard her husband awake with his normal loud ass-trumpeting. This was soon followed by a bloodcurdling scream and the sound of frantic footsteps as her husband ran to the upstairs bathroom.
The wife could not control herself and her eyes began to tear up as she rolled on the floor laughing. After years of putting up with him, she had finally gotten even!
About twenty minutes later, her husband came downstairs in his blood stained underpants with a look of horror in his eyes. She bit her lip to keep from laughing and she asked him what was wrong.
He said, «Honey, you were right – all those years you warned me and I didn't listen to you.»
«What do you mean?» asked his wife.
«Well, you always told me that I would end up farting my guts out one of these days and today it finally happened. But by the grace of God and these two fingers,… I think I got'em all back in!!!»
friction
трение, тренияto fart
nearly
почтиto awake
просыпатьсяsmell
запахto water
to choke
задыхатьсяto plead
умолятьnasty
ужасный, скверный, гадкийto beg
просить, умолятьnatural
естественныйbodily
телесныйfumes
запахи, испарения