HUMOR

According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, HUMOUR has the first meaning is “the quality in something that makes it funny or amusing, the ability to laugh at things that are amusing”. Humour appears from here to there in human life and soon becomes the active way of living for everybody.
In our modern time, more and more people complain about their stressful life without any answers for this. Jobs, duties, plans, relationships, daily problems... make them fall into the depressing thought. Maybe they’ve already forgotten where their smiles are. Have you ever heard: “Mot nu cuoi bang muoi thang thuoc bo”? In my opinion, HUMOUR simply means SMILE... Let’s remember this above saying so that you can easily throw this puzzle (van de nan giai) away.
Humour also helps us achieve our aims. Image you’re a lecturer. Appropriate humor relaxes audiences and makes you feel more comfortable if you’re speaker. Humour can bring attention to the point you are making; and humor will help the audience remember your points better. It can break down barriers so that audience is more receptive to your ideas more. You can make first good impression and win others’ heart with no difficulties if you have a sense of humour. Be able to set the sadness aside, relax your life and bring smlies to everybody is the same meaning as be an intelligent man.
At last, humour likes a slipping cycle making our life easily go on in many different corners. Don’t say “I can’t” or “I don’t dare” whenever someone asks you to tell a funny story.Why don’t you try?. Let’s enjoy our life with smiling everyday and bring the happiness to everybody.

Questions for discussion
1. Have you got a sense of humour? Have you ever told a funny story but after that, listeners don’t laugh?
2. What is the role of humour in human life? Should or shouldn’t we make thing become a subject for people getting stress?
3. Image you’re living in the humourless world, no smile, no laughs, no funny stories, no comedies in the stage. What will happen then?
4. Do you think that a funny story makes listeners laugh only? Have you ever read one which makes you think of further lately?
5. You have a joke or a funny game, don’t you? Share with us please.

Funny Stories
Story 1
A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband.
Suddenly her husband burst into the kitchen: "Careful. CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh my GOD! You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We need more butter. Oh my GOD! WHERE are we going to get MORE BUTTER? They're going to STICK! Careful. CAREFUL! I said be CAREFUL! You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up! Are you CRAZY? Have you LOST your mind? Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!"
The wife stared at him. "What the heck is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?" The husband calmly replied, "I just wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving.”

Story 2
The definition of “GUT” (lòng can đảm) :…when a man comes home late one night, as drunk as a lord. His wife is waiting for him with a broom (cây chổi) in her hand. As quick as a flash, he asks her: “Are you going to fly somewhere?”

Story 3
One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of grey hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?" Her mother repleid," Well, everytime that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white."
The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said: "Mommy, I’ve learn how ALL of grandma's hair is white”

Story 4
A couple had an argument while driving and then passed a pigfarm. Husband asked sarcastically: Relatives of yours?”. Wife responded. “Yip, my in-laws!"

Story 5
Little boy asks his spinster aunt: "Why have you never married?" She replied: "Because I have aparrot, a dog and a cat. They are just like a man...the parrot swears like a man, the dog continuously barks out (lớn tiếng ra lệnh) like a man and the cat strays (biến mất) at night...like a man."

Story 6
Wife stands in front of her mirror and said to her husband: ”I am fat, old and no longer pretty. I am wrinkled and my breasts hang..Give me a compliment” .He replied: “Your eyesight is still excellent though!”


Let sing a song together: SEASONS IN THE SUN
TERRY JACKS

Goodbye to you, my trusted friend! We’ve known each other since we were nine or ten. Together we’ve climbed hills and trees, learned of love and A-B-C, skinned our hearts and skinned our kness. Goodbye my friends! It’s hard to die when all the birds are singing in the sky now that the spring is in the air. Pretty girls are ev’rywhere, think of me and I’ll be there.
*we had ioy, we had fun, we had seasons in th sun, but the hills that we limbed were just season out of time.
Goodbye papa! Please pray for me! I was the black sheep of the family. You tried to teach me right from wrong. Too much wine and too much song, wonder how I got along. Goodbye papa! It’s hard to die when all the birds are singing in the sky now that the spring is in the air, little children av’rywhere when you will see them, I’ll be there.
*we had ioy, we had fun, we had seasons in th sun, but the wine and the song like the seasons ever gone! (twice)
goodbye Michelle, my little one! You gave me love and helped me find the sun, and ev’ry time that I was down, you would always come around and get my feet back on the ground. Goodbye Michelle! It’s hard to die when all the bird are singing in the sky now that the spring is the air with the flower av’rywhere, I wish that we could both be there.
***we had ioy, we had fun, we had seasons in th sun, but the star we could seach were just starfish on the beach (twice)
(repeat ** )
All our life, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun, but the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time.