幽默可乐（Humor Cola）

Thirty Years and Five Minutes

A rich Paris banker begged a well-known artist to do a little thing for his album. The artist did the little thing and asked a million francs.

"Why， it only took you five minutes to do it."said the banker.

"Yes，"replied the artist， "but it took me thirty years to learn how to do it in five minutes."

30年和5分钟

一个很富有的巴黎银行家恳求一个著名的画家为自己画一张小像。画家画完之后，向他收取一百万法郎的报酬。

“为什么？你仅用5分钟就画完了。”银行家不解地说。

“是的，”画家回答，“可是我用了30年的时间才学会这5分钟里的事。”

Buy lottery tickets

There was once a large， fat woman. She had a small， thin husband. He worked in a big office and got his weekly pay every Friday evening.As soon as he got home on Fridays， he had to give his wife all his money， and his wife gave him back only enough to buy his lunch in the office every day.

One day the small man came home very happily. He hurried into the living room. His wife was listening to the radio and eating apples there.

"You'll never guess what happened to me today， dear，" he said. He waited for a few seconds and then said again， "I won ten thousand dollars buying the lottery tickets！"

"That's wonderful！" shouted his wife happily. But then she thought for a few seconds and said angrily， "But wait a minute！ How could you have enough money to buy the tickets？"

买彩票

一个高大壮硕的女人有一个瘦瘦小小的丈夫。他在一家大公司里上班，每个周五晚上发工资。他一回到家，就得把所有钱都交给他的妻子，而妻子只留给他每天在公司吃午饭的钱。

一天，这个男人开心地回家了。他匆匆忙忙地走进起居室，他的妻子正吃着苹果听着收音机。

“你绝对猜不到今天发生了什么事，亲爱的！”停顿了几秒钟，他继续说，“我买彩票赢了一万美元！”

“那太好了！”他的妻子非常高兴。但是她想了几秒钟后，突然变得很生气：“等一下！你为什么会有钱买彩票？”

（本栏目由王世跃 刘书恩供稿）