Spotlight - 10.2019

72 Spotlight 10/2019 THE LIGHTER SIDE

THE LIGHTER SIDE

Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

apparently [E(pÄrEntli]

, anscheinend

bartender [(bA:)tendE]

, Barkeeper(in)

haunted: sth. is ~ [(hO:ntId]

, in etw. spukt es

housemate [(haUsmeIt]

, Mitbewohner(in)

news coverage

[(nju:z )kVvErIdZ]

, Nachrichtenbericht­

erstattung

SPF (sun protection factor)

[(sVn prE)tekS&n )fÄktE]

, Lichtschutzfaktor

steaks: the ~ are too high

[steIks]

, die Steaks hängen zu hoch;

Wortspiel zu: the stakes are

too high: es steht zu viel auf

dem Spiel

Not a ghost

of a chance

My housemates

are convinced

that our house is

haunted. I just don’t

understand it. I’ve

lived here for 273

years, and I’ve never

noticed anything

strange.

Hot stuff

I hate those people

who knock on your

door and tell you

that you need to

be “saved”, or else

you’ll “burn”. Stupid

firemen!

Meat and greet

A man walks into a bar and sees meat hanging from the ceiling. He asks

the bartender, “Why is all this meat hanging here?”

The bartender says, “Well, we’ve got a bet going. If you can jump and

hit any of those pieces of meat, you get your drinks paid for all evening.

If you miss, though, you have to pay for everyone else’s drinks.” Then the

bartender asks, “How about you? Do you want to give it a try?”

The man replies, “I don’t think so. The steaks are too high.”

The Argyle Sweater

by Scott Hilburn

Bad language

My son is in the first grade. Yesterday,

I picked him up from school, and he imme-

diately asked, “Mommy, is ‘hell’ a bad word?”

So I told him, “Yes, ‘hell’ is a bad word. You

shouldn’t say it anywhere, OK?” He agreed

not to say it, but then he had another ques-

tion: “Mommy, ‘hello’ isn’t a bad word,

right?” I had to explain to him that “hell” and

“hello” are two different words with com-

pletely different meanings. Well, today I got

a call from his teacher saying she needed to

have a conversation with me about my son’s

language. Apparently, he won’t stop saying

“shitto”.

Silly social media

• Ladies, if there’s a man who remem-
  bers your birthday, knows what you
  enjoy and understands your friends
  and family, it’s Mark Zuckerberg.


• Twitter: the only place you get excited
  when a stranger follows you.


• How much does a hipster weigh?
  An insta-gram.

“It’s not the world

that’s got so much worse,

but the news coverage

that’s got so much better.”

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English journalist and poet

Cartoons: © 2019 Scott Hilburn/Distributed by Universal Uclick/Bulls Press; © 2019 PEANUTS Worldwide LLC, Dist. by Universal Uclick/Bulls Press; Illustration: wektorygrafika/istock.com