An Amusing Story Copied from English Time
2015-04-05
Will the Winter Be Bad?
Indians ask their new chief whether the winter will be cold or mild. Since the young chief never learned the ways of his ancestors, he tells them to collect firewood, then he goes off and calls the National Weather Service.
"Will the winter be bad?" he asks.
"Looks like it," is the answer.
So the chief tells his people to gather more firewood. A week later, he calls again.
"Are you positive the winter will be very cold?"
"Absolutely."
The chief tells his people to gather even more firewood, then calls the Weather Service again, "Are you sure?"
"I'm telling you, it's going to be the coldest winter on record."
"How do you know?"
"Because the Indians are gathering firewood like crazy!"
This interesting story is copied from a magazine called English Time that I bought at a small bookstore, hope you've enjoyed it.
The magazine English Time is just a selection of short philosophical stories, no name of any of their writters are indicated there.
A practical writing pattern！ One of the main reasons I didn't add my own comments is that I hope my readers can freely make their comments, whatever the story makes them think of, without being disturbed by my narrow ideas.
'I thought this was interesting because.......'
'It made me think of........'
Yes, I should have made a comment in the end. But the writer's name of this story isn't mentioned in the magazine English Time, how could I credit the writer? I post something not for the sake of posting, which is totally unnecessary and a waste of time , I just want to share with readers something interesting and useful.
if you include material written by others, you should at least credit the writer.
and if this is intended to be part of a blog, maybe include a comment or two as to why you liked it.
Otherwise it just looks like plagiarism and posting something for the sake of posting, not to share your thoughts
Funny! Surprise! ---------Maybe I have fooled myself by the wrong words!---------Thanks that it is not in the Culture Revolution when speaking wrong words always meant disaster!
This is the first time you write a blog in such a special way that looks like what in the Readers' Digest where you could get much more copied things. It is true that was one of my favorite magazines in the college!
I think blogs should be like our own diaries that should include more of our personal thinking instead of copied articles!
In her two messages, that foreign friend mentioned that there much rubbish things with the forum!----------that has driven me to have a deep thought! -------------Maybe your magazine-show like that in the Voice of America would become a magnet to readers in our space!
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It seemed that the author wanted to send me to the law court for my 'wrong‘ words! Thanks for your help that has saved me from the trouble!
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