Section: «Anecdotes, jokes»
Anecdote (Greek anekdotos - unpublished) is a short, humorous story, a genre of folk folklore. Its main features are the skill of telling a joke, showing wit and deliberately joking, rather than the truthfulness of the narration. Anecdotes are often told about real people. They are of two types, with two intentions. One group is created with the aim of showing a positive image of members of society, their high moral and psychological qualities. They are told with intelligence, making people laugh, making fun of negative phenomena in society and unpleasant traits in people, giving the story a cheerful character. An example of this is anecdotes associated with the names Kozhanasyr, Aldarkose, Zhirenshe, Tazsha Bala. Anecdotes in the second group are told with malicious intent, with a foreign opinion, with the aim of mocking historical figures, belittling their role, their contributions to the people, weakening their love for the people, and the desire and imitation of young people. They portray these people as if they were being spat upon and accidentally thrown into the mouth. Such harmful, cryptic anecdotes mislead and mislead people who have not yet formed their own opinions, are politically ignorant, and do not understand their civic place in society.
A teacher was asking a student a lot of questions, but the student couldn't answer any of them. The teacher then decided to ask him some very easy..
Joe had a vacation, so he decided to go to the seashore for a few days. He got on a train one morning, and an hour later he was in a small town by..
Six people were traveling in a compartment on a train. Five of them were quiet and well behaved, but the sixth was a rude young man who was causing a..
One year he moved to a new town, and was soon teaching a lot of students in the dance school there, but then he decided to move again to a big city..
Mr. Lewis was a dance teacher. He was a nice man and always had a lot of students who used to come to his classes every week.
Mr. Marsh was a Senator in the government. One day he was driving to a town to make an important speech when he stopped at a small restaurant to have..
Eddie liked music very much when he was at school, but when he went to the university he decided to study medicine, instead of music. When he passed..
Peter was a ventriloquist. He worked in theaters and night clubs, but he wasn't very good, and one month he was out of work and hungry. Then he found..
Mr. Martin went into his usual coffee shop one morning, and sat on one of the seats at the counter. Many other people came in also, but most of them..
Miss Rogers taught physics in a New York school. Last month she was explaining to one of her classes about sound, and she decided to test them to see..
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and their children were going to begin their vacation one day, and they had to be at the airport at eleven- forty A.M. “It'll..
George worked in San Francisco. He wasn't married, and he usually had his lunch, and occasionally his dinner, in small restaurants. One evening he..
A math teacher had been teaching his class all about fractions for the past week, and now he wanted to find out how much they had been able to..
Then John saw that one of the lights was not working either. "There's something loose there too," he thought. He hit it on the side with his wrench..
John had a new car, but it was in the garage for repairs, so he borrowed his wife's old car one evening. He found that it didn't have much gas in the..
Tom had retired and lived by himself a long way from town. He hardly ever left his home, but one day he went into town to buy some things in the..
Jimmy was seven years old. He got an allowance from his parents every week, but he wasted a lot of it on things which he saw in the stores and..
Mr. Smith left his car outside his apartment one night, as usual, but when he came down the next morning to go to his office, he discovered that the..
One day a thief came and tried to steal a beautiful necklace, but the owner of the store caught him immediately and went to the telephone to call the..
A small store sold a lot of nice jewelry, and the owner was always very careful to prevent people from stealing it.
Fred had just become the captain of a small ship which carried things from one port to another along the coast. One day he had to take the ship up a..
Mr. Harris had never married, and he lived in a small house by himself. He was always very careful about what he ate and drank, and he never went out..
A small town had a city dump where people could leave their own garbage. A lot of people used to load their garbage cans into the backs of their cars..
Mr. Young owned his own business and worked very hard. His wife was afraid that he would get sick if he continued like that, so she often tried to..
"You can't prove it was the other way." "Look at this," the dean said. "Susan didn't know the answer to this question, so she wrote, 'I don't know.'..