The Archive · 1938

Well, TU Tell You

One day my uncle and a friend went into a restaurant and ordered and ate a large meal. When they had finished my uncle called the manager over and asked him what he did when two fellows came in and ate a large meal and had no money to pay for it. The manager told him he gave them a good kick in the pants. My uncle stood up, turned his back to the manager, lifted his coat tails, and said, "Take out for two. y Bob Burns Inferiority Complex "Is no use," said the director to. is colleague. "I'll have to get a new typist."

Pity," said his colleague. "Miss Jones always med a nice, obliging sort of girl"

Oh, she's all that. But she will keep interrupting me when I'm dictating to ask how to spell words.

"That certainly is a great waste of time.'

"I don't object to that," explained the direc-for, "but it looks so bad to have to Keep saying I don't know,"

Misunderstood Tue workmen in a certain factory were dissatisfied with their working conditions, and appointed a couple of their number as a deputation to meet their employe:

The latter, after hearing their rather weak protest, waved them away with the remark that he considered they were "too fastidious."

When the deputation attended a meeting later on to give their report, one of: them said; "No more deputations for me! All that the boss said was that we were two fat idiots!

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