10. • Why did the little girl eat her homework?
• Because her teacher said it was a piece of cake
11. • They told Snow White to choose a password
with less than 8 characters
• So she chose TheSevenDwarfs
12. • A: Can you teach me advanced yoga?
• B: How flexible are you?
• A: I can’t make Tuesdays?
13. • I went to the doctor
• I asked him if he had anything for wind.
• He gave me a kite.
14. • A sandwich walks into a bar …
• The waiter said I’m sorry we don’t serve food
in here.
• We don’t serve food
• We don’t serve customers who are food
15. • Four fonts (Century, New Times Roman,
Palatino, and MS ゴシック) walk into a bar
• The barman said, “Get out. We don’t want
your type in here.”
16. • I tried playing water polo
• But my horse drowned
17. • I went into the corner shop
• I bought four corners
• OK, that’s enough stupid jokes
46. How about this?
• We talked about the fact that you slept for
hours.
• Two meanings.
• It’s ambiguous.
• Why?
• Don’t care?
47. • We talked about the fact that you slept for
hours.
• Maybe we talked for hours.
• Maybe you slept for hours.
• Still don’t care?
48. Anyway, how do you explain it?
• We talked about the fact that you slept for
hours.
• We talked about [the fact that you slept for
hours].
• We talked about [the fact that you slept] [for
hours].
49. Anyway, how do you explain it?
• We talked about the fact that you slept for
hours.
• We talked about [the fact that you slept for
hours].
• The fact is that you slept for hours
• Because you’re lazy!
50. Anyway, how do you explain it?
• We talked about the fact that you slept for
hours.
• We talked about [the fact that you slept] [for
hours].
• We talked for hours
• About the fact that you slept
• Because we have nothing better to do
• Our lives are meaningless
75. • The fact that you slept, we talked about for
hours.
• [The fact that you slept], we [talked about x]
for hours.
• We talked for hours
• You didn’t necessarily sleep for hours
82. The fact that you slept, we talked
about for hours
• We talked about [the fact that you slept for
hours]
• You slept for hours
• We didn’t necessarily talk for hours
• Try moving “the fact that you slept”
• The fact that you slept, we talked about [ x for
hours]
137. What about this?
• I am the boss
• Am I the boss?
• I am not the boss
• I’m not the boss
• Am I not the boss?
• Aren’t I the boss?
• ‘m not I the boss? (????)
• Amn’t I the boss? (????)
138. • Seems like some kind of rule
• But maybe not movement
143. The painting was found by a tree
• “by” could indicate the position
• Like “benearth” or “next to”
• “by” could also indicate the logical subject
A tree found the painting
