The Archive · 1939

IN PARENTHESIS

Culinary Error In a restaurant the other night a man ordered a steak. When it arrived he enjoyed it so much that he said to the waiter, "That was the first good steak I've ever had in this place." "Blimey!" said the waiter, "You must have got the chef's!"

Wiser Younc Tommy Whosit is a smart kid and he ought to get on. He applied for a job the other day, and the manager said, "Aren't you the boy who came here for a job last week?" "Yessir," "And didn't I tell you I wanted an Older boy?" "Yessir, thats why I've come back. I am older, now." soe Reminder "Ex, Mrs. Mac that's a richt bonnie locket we've got hanging' room yer neck, I suppose Yell hae some sort o' momentum inside o't?"

"Yes, inside is a lock of my dear husband's hair, "But yer husband's no' gone?" "No, but his hair i:

To Please Her A Patient in hospital asked one of the nurses to write a letter for him to his wife. "The hospital is nice," he told her to write, "but the nurses are a poor lot, with faces like horses. "Say," said the nurse "that's not fair on us, you know." "Yes, I know," said the patient, "but put it down just the same. It'll please the misses."

Cabbage Sense Once while campaigning in the home state of his opponent, William Howard Taft found his speech constantly interrupted by heckling from the gallery. Finally, a cabbage landed on the stage and came to rest near his feet.

Pausing in his address, Mr. Taft peered at the vegetable intently, and then remarked "Ladies and gentleman, I see that one of my, adversaries has lost his head."

Heard in Court Wrrvess: At the top of this road there is ai "Stop, look and listen" sign, Husband: Everything seemed quite normal. I was drinking my beer at home, and my wife was getting on with her knitting, Counsel: What makes you say defendant's car was travelling fast?

Witness; The time it took to get from one place to another.

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