O a solitary reconnaissance a British airman was attacked by four Messerschmitts.
Afterwards he was reproved for not using his wireless.
"I am sorry, sir," he replied, "I thought I should only use the wireless in case of emergency.
Party Conversation "OF course with whisky at 16s. a bottle and surtax starting at £1,500 a year life is going to be intolerable."
"My husband says he can't bear to see women drinking beer."
"Its all right so long as they don't drink out of tankards and dip their noses in the froth."
"My husband thinks pubs have never been the same since women were allowed in them."
"Soon I suppose we shall all be drinking Red Biddy."
"Whatever's that, darling?"
It's a mixture of cheap red wine and methylated spirit and it leaves you unconscious s and days."
I could find something that would leave me unconscious till the end of the war."
"Brenda talks about nothing but soya beans now. She says you can either eat them or make out of them, whichever you like.
what my car must be made out of, "Brenda says they're also anti-acid and tha one pound of soya beans equals two and a halt pounds of steak."
"And how many beans make a lorry?"
"My husband says that the war won't end till Berlin is in ruin "And by that time I suppose London will be in ruins, too?"
"But you can't fly about bombing German babies."
"Thev'd think nothing of bombing British babies, "My husband says it may sound awful, but you have to harden your heart when you think what German babies grow up into."
"After all, Goering and Himmler were German babies once."
"Brenda says you can also make battleships out of soya beans. That is, if you want to.
"Who wants to eat things you can make battle-hips out of?"
"My husband says what about the German babies the Norwegians looked after in the last war? Now they've grown up and invaded the country.
Brenda says you can build bridges with soya eans,"
"Why can't they make whisky out of them?"
"Brenda says they can. And she says a two-pound loaf made out of soya bean flour will last you a week."
where are all these blasted beans?"
"Except for a couple of tins in Brenda's kitchen, they're nearly all in Germany."
^t Gubbins in the "Sunday Express."
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