joke kill Here are two conversations from Friends both involving "that joke would've killed." 1.【Ross: No, I’m getting back down ‘cause she lives in Poughkeepsie. She seems really great, but she’s like totally great, but she lives two and a half hours away. Chandler: How can she be great if she’s from Poughkeepsie? (laughs, at they all look at him) That joke would’ve killed in Albany.】 2.【Ross: I have this date tomorrow night and I have to look cool. Her name's Joan. She's in fashion. She works for Hugo Boss. Rachel: Hugo Boss? I thought you said she was in fashion. At the Ralph Lauren offices, that would've killed.】 My questions are: 1. "kill" in both sentence means that "the joke is so funny that it's gonna make you laugh", right? some other people say that it means “if you tell this joke, you would be killed”... 2. if "kill" really means "the joke is so funny", can you tell me why? i read the contexts above for so many times, still i don't get it. thanks:)

were out last night and she reaches over.... Hi, you guys! here are some lines from TV sitcom Friends, the tense here is a little bit confusing, could you please help me out? 【(Rachel enters from the main door) Phoebe: (to Rachel) Oh Rachel: Hi Phoebe: Thank God you're here. Listen to this! Rachel: what? Phoebe: Joey and my friend were out last night and having dinner and she reaches over and takes a few of his fries... Rachel: Oh! Oh, no!】 what i don't understand is what Phoebe said: 【 Joey and my friend were out last night and having dinner and she reaches over and takes a few of his fries...】 “reach” and “take” are activities that happened last night， so why are they in simple present tense? should they not be "reached over" and "took"? thank you very much, i really appreciate if you could help me!

what's so funny about "Enron"? Here is a conversation between Monica and Chandler in the TV sitcom Friends: [Monica: I haven't seen my savings take a hit like this since I was a kid and they came up with Double Stuf Oreos. What happened to all our money? Chandler: Well, I'm not sure exactly what they did, but I'm inclined to blame Enron.] i looked Enron up and now i know it was one of the world's major electricity, natural gas companies and went bankrupt in 2001. But i still don't get the joke. the audience were laughing when chandler said this. could you please help me and tell me why? Are people in America inclined to blame some bankrupt company when they are short on cash? are there any stories hidden in the line? thanks a million:)

the sweetest lines from the sweetest show here is the conversation between Monica and her fiance Chandler from the TV sitcom "Friends". "Monica: What else did you think about? Chandler: Well, stuff like where we'd live, y'know? Like a small place outside the city, where our kids could learn to ride their bikes and stuff. Y'know, we could have a cat that had a bell on its collar and we could hear it every time it ran through the little kitty door. Of course, we'd have an apartment over the garage where Joey could grow old." what i don't quite understand is: 1."had" and "ran" in "a cat that had a bell on its collar and we could hear it every time it ran through the little kitty door." is past tense, why is that? it's an imaginary situation, not an event in the past, i think. 2. do the "'d"s in "where we'd live" and "we'd have an apartment" mean "would" or "could"? and why? Thank you very much for your kind help. :) have a nice day

Dear friends: About "work out"... I've heard people say that "how is your boyfriend working out",and I know it basically means "how are things going between him and you. My question is can we say"how are YOU working out?"to mean "how are things going with you?" I know it's ok to say "how are things working out for you?" But I am just curious whether "how are YOU working out?" would be ok...thanks guys, waiting for your answers online....

dear friends, i have a question about the pronunciation of figures? how do we pronounce numbers with more than one figure after the point like "$2.35" "5.67million", is it "two point three five" or "five point sixty seven"? thanks a lot. have a nice day.

dear, need your help. Dear, this is a line from the sitcom “Friends” that I don’t quite get. {Scene: Ralph Lauren Rachel: Alright. Now that I'm back, why don't you just fill me in on what you've been up to? Gavin: I've just been working on this big presentation for tomorrow. Rachel: Well, I should be involved in that, so why don't you get me up to speed? Gavin: That's gonna take weeks. Why don't just let me take care of the presentation? Rachel: Oh, no no no no. I see what you're doing here, alright, listen, this is my job buddy. Okay, I've had it for five years, and I know how it works, so why don't you just CATCH ME UP! Gavin: Fine. } So ,about “CATCH ME UP”. we hear a lot “catch you up later” ,it means “talk to you later”. what confuses me here is that it seems Rachel is the one who misses out on some information, so she should be the one that “catches up with the latest developments with the Gavin guy. ” in that case , isn’t that supposed to be “why don’t I CATCH YOU UP?”

Excuse me, dear friends, a little confused about this, need ur help. Hey, friends, here is my question: I heard people say “My flight doesn’t leave for ANOTHER 45 MORE minutes.” and “He’s not gonna pick me up for ANOTHER hour.” I know both are correct. I wonder, though, (1). can people leave out or add “more” as they want? as in “my flight doesn’t leave for another 45 minutes.(omit “more”)”and “he’s not gonna pick me up for another MORE hour.(add “more”)” would these two uses be right? 2. “Another” appears in both sentences, so does that mean it’s necessary? Can I leave it out or replace it with something? Would you mind giving me some more examples on this point ? Thanks a lot:) good day!