. Waiter, waiter, there's a fly in my soup!
. Waiter, waiter, there's a fly in my soup!
- Ssh, don't speak so loud. The other guests will want one too!
2. Waiter, waiter, there's a fly in my soup!
- Don't worry sir, he's so small that he won't drink very much of it!!
3. Waiter, waiter, there's a fly swimming in my soup!
- Yes sir, he's doing the crawl*. Please encourage him by giving him a cheer
or two!!
- *a) a style of swimming; b) a verb used to describe the way in which insects
move on the ground and other surfaces.
4. Waiter, waiter, your thumb is in my soup!
- Don't worry, sir! The soup isn't very hot.
5. Waiter, waiter, there are some tiny flies in my wine!
- Don't worry, sir! They may look tiny but they're over the legal drinking
age for flies.
6. Waiter, waiter, there's a dead fly in my wine!
- What's wrong, sir? You told me that you liked wine with a little body* in it!
- *a) the body of a dead person (or here, fly); b) a strong (alcoholic) flavour.
7. Waiter, waiter, there's a dead fly in my wine!
- Oh no! I warned him not to drink and swim*. If he had kept to soup he might have been a medal-winner in the next fly Olympics.
- * 'to drink and drive' means to drive while under the influence of alcohol,
which is - of course - illegal. 'To drink and swim' therefore means...?
8. Waiter, waiter, there is a spider in my wine!
- That's right sir! We've employed him to catch the flies.
9. Waiter, waiter, there's no soup on the menu* today!
- That's right sir! I wiped all the menus yesterday as part of our annual
pre-Christmas clean-up. It's really encouraging to know that our customers
notice these little details.
- *'on the menu' means 'displayed on the menu
as one of the dishes available'; however, the waiter misunderstands, and
thinks that the customer is referring to the lack of soup stains on the
menu.
10. Waiter, waiter, there's a cockroach in my soup!
- That's right sir! He's volunteered to take over while the fly visits his
mother over Christmas. If you look carefully, you can see that he's wearing a little red hat and has a white beard.
11. Waiter, waiter, I want to complain to the chef.
- I'm afraid his dinner break has just started. He'll be at the restaurant
next door as usual.
- Of course, the point is that if the chef is unwilling to eat the meals
at the restaurant where s/he cooks, there must be something very wrong.
Hence the custom in some restaurants to hang up a sign saying 'Le chef
mange ici' (The chef eats here).
12. Why do waiters prefer elephants to flies?
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Have you ever heard anyone complaining of an elephant in their soup?
This is really an elephant joke. Of course, we know that the reason why
no one ever complains about having an elephant in their soup is because
it could never happen. However, the implication here is that no one complains
because they like having elephants in their soup, although they always complain if there
is a fly.(For more elephant jokes, click here.)
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