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• Do you understand why people don’t want to play with you?

• No, although It’s a question l’ve been pondering since preschool.

• Hey.

• Hey.

• Hey.

• Hey, your copy of Science magazine was in mailbox.

• Oh, thanks.

• Check it out, all about planets this month.

• That’s an atom.

• Agree to disagree. That’s what I love about science, there’s no one right answer.

• So, you and Zack again huh?

• Yeah, yeah, me and Zack again.

• Were we here earlier?

• Ok, we should, we should go.

• Ah, not yet. I want to talk science with the science dudes.

• Oh, and the science dudes want to talk science with you.

• What do you want to talk about, rocks, dinosaurs, our friend the beaver?

• You know, I saw this great thing on the Discovery Channel. Turns out that if you kill a starfish, it’ll just come back to life.

• Was the starfish wearing boxer shorts? Because you might have been watching Nickelodeon.

• No, I’m almost sure that it was the discovery channel.

• It was a great show. They also said dolphins might be smarter than people.

• They might be smarter than some people.

• Well, maybe we can do an experiment to find out.

• Oh, that’s easy enough. We’d need a large tank of water, a hoop to jump through, and a bucket of whatever bite-sized treats you find tasty.

• I don’t get it.

• A dolphin might.

• Oh, I see. You guys are inferring that I’m stupid.

• That’s not correct. We were implying it.

You then inferred it.

• Let’s go.

• You know, for a group of guys who claim they spent most of their lives being bullied, you can be real jerks. Shame on all of you.

• What the hell did I do?

• You laughed.

• Penny.

• What?

• Yeah, we came to talk to Zack. Hey, Zack.

• What do you want?

• Listen, uh, the stuff we were saying before, we were just kidding around.

• No, you weren’t. You were making fun of me.

• Come on, that’s what we do. We give each other a hard time.

• Hey, Sheldon, you look like a praying mantis.

• That’s very hurtful.

• See.

• I don’t know, it still wasn’t very nice.

• Milk Dud?

• Oh, I love Milk Duds, we’re cool.

• Junior Mints.

• You guys want to come in and have a beer?

• Uh, we’re on our way to the comic book store.

• Leonard’s buying.

• Really? I haven’t been to a comic book store in literally a million years.

• Literally? Literally a million years?

• Don’t.

• You want to go with ‘em?

• No.

• Okay, see you later.

• Wait, w-w-wait-wait-wait, you’re ditching me to go look at comic books?

• Are you mad at me?

• I’m not happy.

• Milk Dud?

Narrator :

Although:

Meaning: But, however.

Example : He says he has a girlfriend, although I’ve never seen her.

Ponder:

Meaning: To deeply think about, to contemplate. Commonly used with the verb to be-to ponder something.

Example: He started to ponder his life universe.

Preschool:

Meaning:A school for small children before elementary school.

Check it out:

Meaning: Look at this/that.

Used to draw attention to something new or interesting.

Example : Check out the car I just bought.

Agree to disagree:

Meaning: This expression is used to finish an argument when two people disagree.

Example : I think you are wrong but let’s agree to disagree.

Me and Zack again:

Meaning: Penny and Zack have recently gotten back together, started dating each other again.

Were we here earlier? :

Joke explained: Zack stupidly thinks that when they say ‘again’ they mean visiting the guys that day.

Talk science:

Meaning: To talk about science subjects. When can use this with other subjects too.

Example: Talk sport, talk business, talk shop (also means business), talk shit (say bad things about someone).

Science dudes:

Meaning: Calling someone a ‘science dude’ is saying that they are cool guys involved with that subject.

Example : Music dudes, American dudes, mechanic dudes, Buddhists dudes.

What do you want to talk about? :

Pronunciation : wadder-ya-wanna-talk-aboud.

Our friend the Beaver:

Joke explained: Wolowitz is talking to Zack as if he were a baby.

Expression for this can be to talk down to someone, or to be condescending.

Turn Out :

Meaning : To end up, result.

Example : It turns out he wasn’t guilty.

Starfish:

Meaning: Aquatic animal shaped like a star.

Boxershorts:

Meaning: shorts worn by men as a pyjama or underwear.

Might have been watching:

Meaning: Modal perfect tense used to say-there is a possibility that you were watching.

Example : You might have been calling the wrong number, that’s why I didn’t answer.

Nickelodeon:

Meaning: A kids television station.

Sheldon is making a reference to the character Patrick from Sponge Bob Square Pants, who is a starfish that wears boxer shorts.

Find out:

Meaning: To discover.

Example : She found out her friend got sick from her cooking.

Jump through hoops:

Meaning: a test used to train the obedience and intelligence of an animal.

Bucket:

Meaning: A plastic container used to collect water.

Example : Can you fill this bucket up with water? I need to clean the floor.

Bite size treats you like:

Meaning: A treat is something that you can give to an animal when it is behaving well as a reward.

Joke explained : Sheldon explains many different ways to test an animal intelligence, then says treat YOU like, meaning Zack.

I don’t get it:

Meaning: I don’t understand.

Might:

Meaning: Might is a model verb meaning there is a 50% probability.

Example : It might rain tomorrow.

Inferring:

Meaning: To conclude something based on evidence.

Implying:

Meaning: To express or suggest something indirectly.

Claim:

Meaning: To say that something is true.

Example : She claims to know all the answers.

Bullied:

Meaning: to treat someone in cruel or intimidating way.

Example : He was bullied for being short at school.

Real Jerks:

Meaning: Not nice people, assholes.

Example : That waiter was a real jerk, he didn’t even ask me if I wanted something to drink.

Shame on you:

Meaning: An expression used to make someone feel bad for their horrible behavior.

Example : Shame on you for saying that to your girlfriend.

Talk to Zack:

Pronunciation : tawk-tah-zack.

Kidding around:

Meaning: Joking, not being or acting serious.

Example : Hey man, I’m just kidding around. You don’t need to get angry.

Make fun of someone:

Meaning: To tease someone. This can be in a fun way or a hurtful way.

Example : My friends were making fun of me about my haircut.

Give someone a hard time:

Meaning: To make fun of someone, or make what they are doing more difficult.

Example : My boss is giving me a hard time at work,  I don’t think he likes me.

Praying Mantis:

Meaning: a long and skinny insect. Leonard is saying that Sheldon looks like this insect.

Hurtful:

Meaning: An action that causes emotional pain.

Example : The email she sent me was really hurtful.

Milk Dud:

Meaning: A popular American caramel candy.

We’re cool:

Meaning: A more informal way to say-I forgive you.

Example : (a) Man, sorry about what I said.

(b) Ok dude, we’re cool.

Leonard’s buying! :

Meaning: Someone is buying all the beers.

Joke explained: Generally this term is used when guys go to bars, the fact that they are using it to talk about comic books makes them look like even bigger nerds.

I haven’t been… in/for:

Meaning: Present perfect tense-the time which has passed since I went there.

Example : I haven’t been to the beach in 3 months.

Literally? :

Joke explained : Zack has said literally a million years, which is not a literal statement.

With them:

Pronunciation: wih-thum.

Ditch someone:

Meaning : To leave a friend or a date alone to do something else more interesting.

Example: My girlfriend ditched me to go and get a drink with one of her friends.