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Выпуск 38 - Practice 3. Gavin Maxwell "Ring of bright water". Joke

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Gavin Maxwell "Ring of bright water"

Immediately after the war's end I bought the Island of Soay, some four thousand acres of relatively low-lying 'black' land cowering below the bare pinnacles and glacial corries of the Cuillins of Skye. There, seventeen miles by sea from the railway, I tried to found a new industry for the tiny and discontented population of the island, by catching and processing for oil the great basking sharks that appear in Hebridean water during the summer months. I built a factory, bought boats and equipped them with harpoon guns, and became a harpoon hunter myself. For five years I worked in that landscape that before had been, for me, of a nebulous and cobwebby romance, and by the time it was all over and I was beaten I had in some way come to terms with the Highlands - or with myself, for perhaps in my own eyes I had earned the right to live among them, and the patent unauthenticity of the Maxwell tartan no longer disturbed me.

Joke

Some people will complain about anything on a flight. They will ask the pilot to stop causing so much turbulence, or ask the stewardess to open the window to let some air in (both real requests by passengers on Virgin Atlantic flights).
Other potentially "hilarious" pranks would include the bus driver who pretends he's having an epileptic seizure at the wheel, the motorcyclist who pops a wheelie into a parade of clowns, and the oil tanker captain who cries "ICEBERG!"

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