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Listening 2

1

A young man in Illinois was having trouble paying his college tuition, so he came up with quite a creative solution.

He wrote to a newspaper columnist and asked him to print a request in his column.

He wanted the columnist to ask readers to send in one penny to help him pay for his college education.

Readers of the newspaper thought it was a funny idea. so they sent in their pennies, and in the end. the young man collected $28,000.

2

An American football team wants to hire 250 students to help them get their new football arena ready for visitors.

The Job? Flushing toilets!

Apparently, when a new stadium or arena is built, you have to make sure all the plumbing is working properly before you can open for business.

And the only way to do that is to Hush all the toilets at the same time.

3

We all know that Egyptians mummified their pharaohs when they died in order to preserve their bodies for eternity.

The Egyptians had an elaborate process for mummification involving various chemicals and techniques.

But they may have been better off just going to Colombia, South America.

It’s been discovered that the soil in the town of San Bernardo, Colombia contains ingredients that naturally mummify anyone buried there.

4

What would you do if you were bored with your job because you didn’t have enough work to do? Would you quit?

That’s not what a man working in a New Mexico government office did.

Instead, he decided to sue his employer for “wrongful hiring.”

He argues that he left a higher-paying business job to take the government job and ended up with nothing to do!