THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, AUGUST 11, 1989
CABBAGES AND KINGS
WHO LAUGHS LAST
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The wife had just bought a new hat, 80 modern that one couldn't be quite sure that it was a hat at all. Said the husband: "I always laugh when I look at your hat." "Good," she said, "I'll leave it beside the bill when it comes.'
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An "action shot" of one of the races during the Charity Cycling Meet at Caroline Hill.
This photo shows the start of the Ladies' Mile Race during the Charity Cycling Meet at Caroline Hill.
HEARD IN COURT
Witness: At the top of this road there is a "Stop, look and listen" sign.
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beer at home, and my wife was getting on with her knitting.
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Counsel: What makes you say defendant's car was travelling - fast?
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Husband: Everything seemed quite normal.
I was drinking my
Witness: The time it took to get from one place to another.
A Pun
"What's a man who marries two wives, dad?”
"A bigamist."
“And what's one who marries
three?"
"A bigamystery."
Kine EXAKTA
CURED
When her husband was ill, Mrs. Jones telephoned the doctor, who told her to take the patient's tem- perature. She put a barometer on his chest and it said, “Very Dry." She gave him a bottle of beer, and he felt so good he got up and went straight to work.
LANDMARK
"I want a haircut," said the customer in the barber's shop; and went on, "a singe, shampoo, moustache clipped, beard trimm- ed; where can I put my cigar?"
The barber replied: "Suppose you keep it in your mouth, sir; it'll be a sort of landmark."
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GENTLEMANLY
"Then you admit that you struck the plaintiff with malice aforethought?" demanded coun- sel for the man charged with as- sault.
“You can't mix me
up like that," replied the defendant, in- dignantly. "I've told you twice I hit him with a brick. There wasn't no mallets nor nothing of the kind about it-just a plain brick like any gentleman would use."
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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 !"
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HELMUT NOCHT
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING
NONG
LONG
CHATER ROAD,
GENERAL SEN'S
GESTURE
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The Englishman hurried after- her. Was that devil Sen devis- ing some new torture for the poor girl? Was her lover to be shot before her eyes?
A Chinese sergeant detached himself from the crowd and inter-- cepted the doctor. In his hand
a letter:
with General Sen's compli-
ments," he said and handed it to the Englishman.
Aldridge opened it, raised his eye-glass, and read curiously: “My dear Dr. Aldridge,
"I am sending herewith twenty prisoners of war, bandits, etc. I regret that you should, impute any dishonourable motive to the condition in which you received the last lot of prisoners for your invaluable scientific research, I trust you will kill the enclosed at your convenience and in whatso- ever manner you choose. The youthful Adam, should prove a valuable specimen.“
“As a professional colleague, I salute you,
"SEN (General)."':
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