What A Waste!
Lacy Lecturer on- A.RP.:. "Among the solvents for mustard-gas are petrol, ether and alcoholic spirits—"
Voice from the back: "That "ud be an awful waste, Miss. Could you not drink the whisky and then breathe on it?"
8 Ping Pong AFTER a heated argument, Mrs. Brown had succeeded in persuading her husband to allow After a few weeks the girl wrote home and their daughter to go to a boarding-school.
said: "I'm just crazy on ping-pong."
"What did.I say!" exclaimed Mr. Brown. "I knew it would come to no good; now she's fallen in love with an Oriental."
8 8 Beyond His Ken Tue soldier was explaining the theory of shooting to his girl friend.
"You see, we have to calculate the distance of the object we want to hit, and then allow for the power of attraction of the earth."
"But suppose you are shooting over water?"
"Oh, thats more than you would understand—besides, I'm not in the Navy."
With Love From Auntie A car whose aunt plays the violin in the same amateur orchestra as a cousin of a man who was one of those censor fellows' fags at Eton, and so knows everything, that the public has got the Ministry of Information all wrong.
The Ministry of Information, this chap maintains, is not, as is generally supposed, a department for supplying' information. It is simply a department for collecting it.
"And what is it supposed to do with this information when it has collected it?" he was asked.
"Oh, just put it in some safe place where ing' the enemy can't get at it, that's all," he said.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.