标题: Nineteen or Thirty-eight? [打印本页] 作者: maggie 时间: 2013-4-8 14:30 标题: Nineteen or Thirty-eight? A secretary was telling her office mates about her birthday party.
“You should have seen the cake,” she boasted. “It was marvelous. There were nineteen candles——one for each year.”
“Nineteen candles,” meowed a colleague. “What did you do, burn them at both ends?”