万花筒 2009-04-05&04-06 愚人节的整人电话

Thousands of cars pass through the intersection¹ of Belmont in main street during the morning rush, and today they saw this, a sign upon a railway trestles that says "CALL CHAD". His phone number is on the sign, too. We are blotting² it out, so you don't call him. 

 

Upon  the bridge is a sign says "CALL CHAD", did you call Chad yet?

 

So, who is this Chad fellow?

 

Yes, I am. I'm Chad.

 

Chad is a St. Joseph's student who now realizes he was fooled on April Fool's day.

 

I had class at ten and my phone was ringing off the hook³, all during class.

 

He's got a bunch of strange calls, and a bunch of even stranger text messages.

 

Is this a fairy tale? Are you my dream lover?

 

And then on his way home to Manayunk this afternoon, Chad finally realized what his knucklehead lacrosse teammate has done to him.

 

As soon as I came across Belmont, I was looking at that sign and I was like, oh, my God.

 

Of course “One good prank⁴ deserves another.” Right? So when the original prankster showed up here for the interview. We gave him a little taste of his own medicine.

 

We nailed Matt on the fact the illegal sign was illegally hung on the railroad bridge.

 

We’re actually for the Philadelphia Police Department here to charge you with trespassing⁵ on the trestles.

 

Oh, this is quite a surprise.

 

We had him go on for a second there, but really Matt’s only crime is good comedy. He and his co-conspirators apologize that the sign caused traffic problems and they apologize for Chad’s long lists of bizarre⁶ texts.

 

Chad, looking for some loving?

 

Yeah, we've just given him a hard time, but he knows it’s the thing of good fun. It’s April Fools so, wouldn’t be a good time without it.

 

1 intersection   

n.交集，十字路口，交叉点；[计算机] 交集

参考例句：

• There is a stop sign at an intersection.在交叉路口处有停车标志。
• Bridges are used to avoid the intersection of a railway and a highway.桥用来避免铁路和公路直接交叉。

2 blotting   

吸墨水纸

参考例句：

• Water will permeate blotting paper. 水能渗透吸水纸。
• One dab with blotting-paper and the ink was dry. 用吸墨纸轻轻按了一下，墨水就乾了。

3 hook   

vt.钩住；n.钩子，钩状物

参考例句：

• The blacksmith forged a bar of iron into a hook.铁匠把一根铁条锻造成一个钩子。
• He hangs up his scarf on the hook behind the door.他把围巾挂在门后的衣钩上。

4 prank   

n.开玩笑，恶作剧；v.装饰；打扮；炫耀自己

参考例句：

• It was thought that the fire alarm had been set off as a prank.人们认为火警报警器响是个恶作剧。
• The dean was ranking the boys for pulling the prank.系主任正在惩罚那些恶作剧的男学生。

5 trespassing   

[法]非法入侵

参考例句：

• He told me I was trespassing on private land. 他说我在擅闯私人土地。
• Don't come trespassing on my land again. 别再闯入我的地界了。

6 bizarre   

adj.奇形怪状的，怪诞的

参考例句：

• They saw a bizarre animal in the lake.他们在湖中看见一个奇怪的动物。
• The building was of bizarre construction.这建筑构造奇异。